Minnesota Motorcycle Permit Test

Most motorcycle crashes happen on short trips less than 5 miles long, just a few minutes after the rider starts out.

For people of legal drinking age, a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% is considered legally intoxicated.

Reflective material on a vest or the sides of your helmet can make you more visible to drivers approaching you from the sides or behind.

If you borrow a motorcycle, you should make all of the same safety checks that you would make with your own motorcycle. You should ride cautiously when using an unfamiliar motorcycle, and give yourself extra room for stopping.

Because of the extra weight they put on the motorcycle, you should adjust the shocks before carrying a passenger. Because the motorcycle will sit at a different angle, you should also adjust the headlight and mirrors to compensate. You should also add some pressure to the tires and adjust the suspension.

Loads should be secured lower down. Putting them too high up, such as on a sissy bar, can raise the motorcycle's center of gravity and upset its balance. Loads should also be as even as possible on each side to avoid pulling the motorcycle to one side.

Drippings from cars and trucks build up as a strip of oily deposits in the center of lane. Unless the road is wet, this strip usually still provides enough traction to ride on safely. The strip is generally narrow enough that you can ride to either side of it and still be in the center portion of the lane.

When you are alongside a vehicle in its blind spot, you should either speed up to get by quickly, or else drop back.