Safety And Your Motorcycle Practice Questions
About This Topic
These questions deal with keeping a motorcycle roadworthy: chain tension, tyre condition and pressures, brakes, lights, steering and suspension. Because a fault that is a nuisance in a car can unseat a rider, the DVSA expects detailed knowledge of daily checks and of the maintenance jobs that must never be postponed.
What the DVSA tests here
- Checking tyres, chain, brakes and lights before every ride
- How defects in steering, suspension or tyres change the way a machine handles
- Carrying loads, fitting accessories and keeping emissions and noise legal
Practising this topic
There are 79 questions on safety and your motorcycle in this practice bank, and every answer comes with an explanation so you can learn from your mistakes as you go. The motorcycle theory test blends every topic into a single 50-question paper — you need 43 correct answers to pass, so weak areas are quickly exposed. A good rule of thumb is to keep practising a topic until you clear it comfortably several times in a row.
In the run-up to test day
Riders tend to do best when book study and saddle time reinforce each other, so try to review this topic soon after a lesson or CBT session while the experience is fresh. The Highway Code remains the primary source for every answer, and the official questions rarely stray far from it. As test day approaches, move on to full 50-question mock papers under the 57-minute time limit — they show whether a topic genuinely holds up once it is mixed in with all the others.