Attitudes, risk awareness and interaction with other road users
What this domain tests
Judgement: how your own choices raise or lower risk, and how you share the road with people who are more vulnerable or less visible than you.
Risk is what you accept
Most serious motorcycle crashes involve a rider who was going too fast for the conditions, was impaired, or was not seen. Watch your own rationalisations - "I know this road", "just this once", "everyone does it". The Norwegian alcohol limit is 0.2 ‰, effectively zero, and medicines, drugs and fatigue count in the same way. Group riding raises risk when you ride to keep up: agree a regrouping point and ride your own pace, because nobody is left behind if everyone knows the plan.
Sharing the road
Lorries have large blind spots and long stopping distances, and swing wide when turning right. Pedestrians, cyclists, children and the elderly move unpredictably. Ride where you can be seen - not in a blind spot, not hugging the kerb at junctions - and signal early. Never treat eye contact as proof of being seen.
Worked example
A lorry ahead indicates left while hugging the right kerb. Reasoning: it probably needs the full width to turn, and may swing right first. You hold back instead of slipping past on the inside, because that is exactly where its blind spot will be when it turns.
Traps that cost marks
Treating a near miss as proof of skill. Riding two abreast in a group and running out of road. Letting irritation at a slow driver become an overtake with no sight line. Assuming hi-vis makes you visible.