Motorcyle theory & practice is slightly different from what you would expect sometimes. Particularily when coming from the theory of a Car.
As a more vulnerable road user there are specific circumstances that require “counter intuitive” action. The theory test is clever enough to see this.
Remember that Compulsory Bike training has been around for longer than compulsory driving lessons in Ireland.
Sometimes you do indeed need to slow down to slowly overtake something safely
Reducing speed while overtaking does seem counter intuitive but the theory test people have to know more about this than I do.
The 3 wrong options are all variants of the same thing. Basically you don’t just power through just because you’ve started. You should be prepared to alter your speed and course or abandon the overtake all together if required.
If something goes wrong for whatever reason, and a car pops out of nowhere on the right side. There’s no question who’s going to win this engagement, motorbikes need to be in a position to be able to get out of bad positions.
Relative velocity is really going to work against you here. Likewise with air resistance. Slowing down and getting back into your original position is going to be quicker than speeding up and getting ahead of the next car.
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Motorcyle theory & practice is slightly different from what you would expect sometimes. Particularily when coming from the theory of a Car.
As a more vulnerable road user there are specific circumstances that require “counter intuitive” action. The theory test is clever enough to see this.
Remember that Compulsory Bike training has been around for longer than compulsory driving lessons in Ireland.
Sometimes you do indeed need to slow down to slowly overtake something safely
Reducing speed while overtaking does seem counter intuitive but the theory test people have to know more about this than I do.
The 3 wrong options are all variants of the same thing. Basically you don’t just power through just because you’ve started. You should be prepared to alter your speed and course or abandon the overtake all together if required.
If something goes wrong for whatever reason, and a car pops out of nowhere on the right side. There’s no question who’s going to win this engagement, motorbikes need to be in a position to be able to get out of bad positions.
Relative velocity is really going to work against you here. Likewise with air resistance. Slowing down and getting back into your original position is going to be quicker than speeding up and getting ahead of the next car.