Eric Takabayashi  <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>Or drive illegally, like I see many foreigners do.

Nah, I already had one experience with Japanese authorities and
that was enough for me.

>Contrary to what I had been led to believe my first time at the examination
>center, they didn't convert my motorcycle license along with the manual
>transmission license. I had to go back for more testing, and only held two
>days a week. More driving school. Well, I hadn't had experience picking up
>fallen bikes or pushing them in figure eights since Motorcycle Safety
>Foundation days, anyway.

I heard that picking up a fallen bike was part of the conversion
test.  Nobody ever taught me how to pick up a fallen bike or push
it in a Figure 8 in my motorcycle safety course.  Maybe I'll get
lucky and my bike license will transfer right over like my car
license.

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