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Quiz: Know Your Machine

Ten questions on the bike you ride.

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1Pick the three questions about your machine.

A close view of an e-bike frame: the battery built into the down tube and the small screen on the handlebar. Nobody is in this picture.

Tap every one that is right.

There are three right answers here.

Watts, cut-out speed, working pedals. Those three work anywhere.

The three are watts, cut-out speed and working pedals.

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2Where do you find those three answers?

Tap every one that is right.

Find all 3. Every one is something you can read yourself.

Label, manual, screen. The screen is the least sure of the three.

Label, manual, screen. What a friend says is not one of them.

3Which one waits for you to pedal?

A low view of one foot on the raised pedal and the other flat on the road, ready to push off. The rider head is not in this picture.

Remember:
“Feet set first. Then power.”

Tap the one that is right.

One answer. Which one needs your feet to be moving?

Pedal assist waits. A throttle does not.

Pedal assist only helps while you pedal. A throttle goes on its own.

4Which of these are true of a throttle?

Tap every one that is right.

Find both. A throttle does not wait for you.

A throttle does not wait for you. Feet set, then power.

A throttle moves the bike with no pedaling at all.

5How should you use the brakes?

Two hands on the handlebar grips with a finger resting on each brake lever. The rider head is not in this picture.

Tap every one that is right.

Find both. One is about which brake, one is about how hard.

Both brakes. Squeeze them, do not grab.

Both brakes, every time, squeezed and not grabbed.

6Which of these make the stop longer?

A thumb pressing into a bike tire to feel how hard it is. The rider head is not in this picture.

Tap every one that is right.

Four of these add ground.

Speed, weight, tired, wet. All four add ground.

Speed, weight, being tired and wet ground all make it longer.

7How do you check the saddle height?

A girl in a buckled helmet leans over the handlebar with one hand resting on the brake lever.

Tap the one that is right.

One answer. The check uses your heel, not how it feels.

Heel on the pedal at the bottom, leg straight, hips level.

Heel on the pedal, leg straight, hips level. No tape measure.

8Which of these belong in the check?

Tap every one that is right.

Four of these are in the check.

Air, brakes, chain, quick, check. Five, in that order.

Air, brakes, chain, quick, then check. Washing is not in it.

9What three things does an e-bike add?

The same front wheel photographed twice: once with the lever standing straight out from the fork, once with it folded flat against it.

Tap every one that is right.

Find all 3. Three things a bike with a motor has that a plain bike does not.

Battery, lights, lock. They come after the first five.

Battery, lights and lock come after air, brakes, chain, quick, check.

10Which of these are safe ways to charge?

A machine plugged in on the floor of a narrow front hallway, the charger running off an extension lead, the front door directly behind it.

Remember:
“Never charge it across the way out.”

Tap every one that is right.

Find both. One is about which charger, one is about where.

Its own charger, into the wall, unplugged when it is full.

Its own charger, straight into the wall. Never in a doorway.