Road Badge

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Road Badge

8 sections, 44 lessons, and 8 quizzes. Take them in this order.

Start the first lesson

A boy of about thirteen buckling his own helmet strap beside an e-bike on a quiet street, earbuds out of his ears
1

Fit to Ride

  1. Check the rider first
  2. The helmet
  3. Your phone, music and ears
  4. Why fourteen is harder than 40
  5. Riding when you are not right
  6. Quiz: Fit to Ride
A girl of about twelve crouched beside an e-bike, one hand on the battery in the frame, looking closely at the machine
2

Know Your Machine

  1. What are you riding?
  2. What a throttle changes
  3. Weight, speed and stopping
  4. Making it fit you
  5. The check before you ride
  6. The battery and the charger
  7. Quiz: Know Your Machine
A boy riding slowly across a wide empty parking lot with no cars in it, practising in open space
3

In the Empty Lot

  1. Somewhere with no cars in it
  2. Setting off from a standstill
  3. The stop, and the pedal
  4. Riding a straight line
  5. The weave and the box
  6. The squeeze, and the corner
  7. Quiz: In the Empty Lot
A girl riding straight while turning her head to look back over her shoulder
4

Look Behind, Ride Straight

  1. Why looking back can swerve you
  2. Prove that you looked
  3. Riding with one hand
  4. Glance, check, stare
  5. Look, signal, wait, move
  6. Quiz: Looking Behind
A boy stopped at a quiet intersection with one foot down, looking along the road before he moves
5

You Are Traffic

  1. You are traffic
  2. The two road positions
  3. Control, then release
  4. The rule quoted in half
  5. The door zone is four feet
  6. Intersections and left turns
  7. Quiz: You Are Traffic
A street corner where a road, a bike lane, a sidewalk and a trail all meet, with a young rider pausing to choose
6

Where You Are Allowed

  1. Four surfaces, four answers
  2. The sidewalk is the worse one
  3. The rule changes at the line
  4. Lights, front one first
  5. Finding your own rule
  6. Quiz: Where You Can Ride
A girl slowing her bike behind people walking on a shared park path, giving them room
7

Paths and People

  1. You are the heaviest thing
  2. Keep right, pass left
  3. The sign, and right now
  4. People do not go straight
  5. Six of you is one vehicle
  6. Quiz: Paths and People
A boy standing calmly at the side of the road beside his bike after a spill, unhurt, phone in hand
8

When It Goes Wrong

  1. Why this badge comes last
  2. The quick stop
  3. Two ways round a thing
  4. You get one of them, not both
  5. The dog
  6. Gravel, grates and rails
  7. Quiz: When It Goes Wrong