Traffic rules and road signs (A1)
The A1 class covers light motorcycles up to 125 cm³, 11 kW and 0.1 kW/kg, ridden from 16 years. This domain tests whether you can apply the Norwegian traffic rules (trafikkreglene) and the sign regulation to a machine that is small, quick and easy to overlook.
Priority
- Høyreregel: where no sign or signal says otherwise, you yield to traffic approaching from your right. This applies at T-junctions too: entering from the stem, you yield to vehicles coming from the right along the top road, but you have priority over traffic approaching from your left.
- Signs: the yellow diamond (202) marks a priority road; the inverted triangle (204) is yield; the octagon (206) is a full stop. A roundabout is signed 208, and traffic already circulating has priority.
- General limits are 50 km/h in built-up areas and 80 km/h outside them unless signed; motorways may be 100 or 110. Mopeds (class AM) may not use motorways; A1 machines may unless a sign bans them.
Position and overtaking
Ride on the right, choose a lane position that puts you in drivers' mirrors, and never share a lane with a car. Overtake on the left, only with clear sight and space, and never immediately before or on a pedestrian crossing, at a railway crossing, or across a solid centre line. Signal early, cancel afterwards, and keep the dipped headlight on at all times.
Worked example
You ride north on a 50 km/h road and reach an unsigned T-junction, turning right into the top road. A car approaches from the right along that road. Under the right-hand rule the car has priority, so you slow, stop if needed, and turn behind it. A car approaching from your left does not have priority over you, but you still only turn when it is clearly safe.
Traps
Treating yield as a race to the line; forgetting the right-hand rule at T-junctions; assuming a priority road continues past a junction without the repeat sign; and ignoring that cyclists and mopeds have the same rights under the same rules.