MSF BASIC RIDERS REVISION TEST UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rain gear - ✔✔fit over your regular riding gear, secure and bright
✔✔hypothermia - ✔✔lower than normal body temperature
✔✔dehydration and heat stroke - ✔✔didn't drink enough water, weakness from heat
✔✔Hearing - ✔✔Using ear plugs will reduce damaging wing noise while still allowing
you to hear important sounds.
✔✔Good Mental Attitude (Rider Character) - ✔✔Safety is my #1 priority
✔✔Most crashes occur - ✔✔In curves and intersections
✔✔3 Reasons of Risk - ✔✔Less stable, more vulnerable, less visible.
✔✔Primary cause of crash - ✔✔There are many factors
✔✔Questions that help you think about risk - ✔✔Am I a good driver, do i have near-
crashes when I drive, do I brake hard often, am I easily distracted, do I have points of
my driver's license?
✔✔Mental Skill Rather than Physical - ✔✔Awareness and judgement, high level of
perceptual and physical skills
✔✔Key safety measures - ✔✔Riding skill and motorcycle maneuverabilty beyond what
is actually needed. Having traction beyond what is needed. Having time and space
between what is actually needed.
✔✔Managing Risk Well - ✔✔knowledge, skill, attitude, values and habits to be a safe
and responsible driver.
✔✔Good risk offset - ✔✔When skill exceeds the risk
✔✔Good Lane Choice - ✔✔Don't have to change lanes often, can maintain a space
cushion, ride at speed to reduce potential conflict, consider shoulders and medians as
possible escape paths.
✔✔Start - ✔✔to be see and be seen
✔✔Being Visible - ✔✔Clothing, headlight, turn signals, brake light, horn and add-ons
, ✔✔Visual Lead Times - ✔✔2-second following time and distance, 4 second urgent time
and distance, 12 second anticipation time and distance.
✔✔2-second following time and distance - ✔✔minimum when conditions are ideal and
you are paying close attention ahead.
✔✔4 second urgent time - ✔✔react properly to conditions, whether approaching an
intersection, rounding a curve, or following another vehicle.
✔✔12-second anticipation time and distance - ✔✔evaluate areas it would take you that
long to reach.
✔✔Stopping distance - ✔✔Perception, Reaction, and Braking Distance
✔✔Total Stopping Distance (TSD) Reduced Risk - ✔✔Improve each part of total
stopping distance Use eyes, mind and perception skill "What if".
✔✔Search - ✔✔Scan far, near and side to side.
✔✔Four Search Categories - ✔✔Traffic controls and roadway design features (lights,
signs, medians, etc.); roadway users, road and surface conditions, escape paths (front
and side)
✔✔Evaluate - ✔✔what could happen
✔✔Execute - ✔✔use smooth well-timed actions
✔✔Execute 3 action steps - ✔✔adjusting speed, adjusting position, communicating
intentions.
✔✔Mental Processing - ✔✔SEE: Search Evaluate and Execute
✔✔Environmental Conditions (Unsafe) - ✔✔Storms, heavy rain, lightning, flash flooding,
heavy fog, dust storms.
✔✔Escape Path - ✔✔In front, to the right and or to the left. open and allows you to
avoid a collision.
✔✔Target fixation - ✔✔you crash into what you are looking at.
✔✔Potential Conflict - ✔✔Intersection
✔✔Threshold braking - ✔✔using brakes fully without producing a skid
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Rain gear - ✔✔fit over your regular riding gear, secure and bright
✔✔hypothermia - ✔✔lower than normal body temperature
✔✔dehydration and heat stroke - ✔✔didn't drink enough water, weakness from heat
✔✔Hearing - ✔✔Using ear plugs will reduce damaging wing noise while still allowing
you to hear important sounds.
✔✔Good Mental Attitude (Rider Character) - ✔✔Safety is my #1 priority
✔✔Most crashes occur - ✔✔In curves and intersections
✔✔3 Reasons of Risk - ✔✔Less stable, more vulnerable, less visible.
✔✔Primary cause of crash - ✔✔There are many factors
✔✔Questions that help you think about risk - ✔✔Am I a good driver, do i have near-
crashes when I drive, do I brake hard often, am I easily distracted, do I have points of
my driver's license?
✔✔Mental Skill Rather than Physical - ✔✔Awareness and judgement, high level of
perceptual and physical skills
✔✔Key safety measures - ✔✔Riding skill and motorcycle maneuverabilty beyond what
is actually needed. Having traction beyond what is needed. Having time and space
between what is actually needed.
✔✔Managing Risk Well - ✔✔knowledge, skill, attitude, values and habits to be a safe
and responsible driver.
✔✔Good risk offset - ✔✔When skill exceeds the risk
✔✔Good Lane Choice - ✔✔Don't have to change lanes often, can maintain a space
cushion, ride at speed to reduce potential conflict, consider shoulders and medians as
possible escape paths.
✔✔Start - ✔✔to be see and be seen
✔✔Being Visible - ✔✔Clothing, headlight, turn signals, brake light, horn and add-ons
, ✔✔Visual Lead Times - ✔✔2-second following time and distance, 4 second urgent time
and distance, 12 second anticipation time and distance.
✔✔2-second following time and distance - ✔✔minimum when conditions are ideal and
you are paying close attention ahead.
✔✔4 second urgent time - ✔✔react properly to conditions, whether approaching an
intersection, rounding a curve, or following another vehicle.
✔✔12-second anticipation time and distance - ✔✔evaluate areas it would take you that
long to reach.
✔✔Stopping distance - ✔✔Perception, Reaction, and Braking Distance
✔✔Total Stopping Distance (TSD) Reduced Risk - ✔✔Improve each part of total
stopping distance Use eyes, mind and perception skill "What if".
✔✔Search - ✔✔Scan far, near and side to side.
✔✔Four Search Categories - ✔✔Traffic controls and roadway design features (lights,
signs, medians, etc.); roadway users, road and surface conditions, escape paths (front
and side)
✔✔Evaluate - ✔✔what could happen
✔✔Execute - ✔✔use smooth well-timed actions
✔✔Execute 3 action steps - ✔✔adjusting speed, adjusting position, communicating
intentions.
✔✔Mental Processing - ✔✔SEE: Search Evaluate and Execute
✔✔Environmental Conditions (Unsafe) - ✔✔Storms, heavy rain, lightning, flash flooding,
heavy fog, dust storms.
✔✔Escape Path - ✔✔In front, to the right and or to the left. open and allows you to
avoid a collision.
✔✔Target fixation - ✔✔you crash into what you are looking at.
✔✔Potential Conflict - ✔✔Intersection
✔✔Threshold braking - ✔✔using brakes fully without producing a skid
