MSF COURSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026
GRADED A+
✔✔T-CLOCS - ✔✔Pre-ride insprection routine. tires and wheels, controls, lights and
mirrors, oil and other fluids, chassis, stands
✔✔Head Injury - ✔✔Head Injury is the primary cause of death for riders.
✔✔ATGATT - ✔✔all the gear, all the time
✔✔Crashes most often occur at - ✔✔curves and intersections.
✔✔On a motorcycle you are - ✔✔less stable, less visible, more vulnerable.
✔✔Usually there are ---- factors that interact to cause a crash. - ✔✔many
✔✔Three safety margins for managing riding risk. - ✔✔1. Having riding skill and
maneuverability beyond what is actually needed.
2. Having traction beyond what is actually needed. Ride within traction limits.
3. Having time and space beyond that which is needed.
✔✔Risk offset - ✔✔Risk offset is the difference between the risks you take and the skill
you possess. Good risk offset is when skill is higher than risk. Bad is opposite.
✔✔From left to right. - ✔✔LP1, LP2, LP3
✔✔RiderRadar - ✔✔Search far and near as well as side to side.
✔✔Visual lead times/distances - ✔✔2 second, 4 second, 12 second
✔✔Total stopping distance - ✔✔perception distance + reaction distance + braking
distance
✔✔SEE - ✔✔Strategy for mental processing. Search, Evaluate, Execute.
✔✔Finding escape paths - ✔✔Avoid target fixation so you do not crash into one specific
thing. Have more than one escape plan.
✔✔Presentation - ✔✔Use a lane position where others are best able to see you.
✔✔three types of curves - ✔✔Constant radius, increasing radius, decreasing radius.
✔✔3 types of motorcycles - ✔✔Street, Dual Purpose, Off Highway
GRADED A+
✔✔T-CLOCS - ✔✔Pre-ride insprection routine. tires and wheels, controls, lights and
mirrors, oil and other fluids, chassis, stands
✔✔Head Injury - ✔✔Head Injury is the primary cause of death for riders.
✔✔ATGATT - ✔✔all the gear, all the time
✔✔Crashes most often occur at - ✔✔curves and intersections.
✔✔On a motorcycle you are - ✔✔less stable, less visible, more vulnerable.
✔✔Usually there are ---- factors that interact to cause a crash. - ✔✔many
✔✔Three safety margins for managing riding risk. - ✔✔1. Having riding skill and
maneuverability beyond what is actually needed.
2. Having traction beyond what is actually needed. Ride within traction limits.
3. Having time and space beyond that which is needed.
✔✔Risk offset - ✔✔Risk offset is the difference between the risks you take and the skill
you possess. Good risk offset is when skill is higher than risk. Bad is opposite.
✔✔From left to right. - ✔✔LP1, LP2, LP3
✔✔RiderRadar - ✔✔Search far and near as well as side to side.
✔✔Visual lead times/distances - ✔✔2 second, 4 second, 12 second
✔✔Total stopping distance - ✔✔perception distance + reaction distance + braking
distance
✔✔SEE - ✔✔Strategy for mental processing. Search, Evaluate, Execute.
✔✔Finding escape paths - ✔✔Avoid target fixation so you do not crash into one specific
thing. Have more than one escape plan.
✔✔Presentation - ✔✔Use a lane position where others are best able to see you.
✔✔three types of curves - ✔✔Constant radius, increasing radius, decreasing radius.
✔✔3 types of motorcycles - ✔✔Street, Dual Purpose, Off Highway
