The national cycling body says it plainly: most crashes between riders and drivers happen at intersections, and the countermeasure it names first is not speed or nerve. It is position — being visible and being predictable about where you are going.

And here is the reversal you have to drill. The approach to an intersection is where you leave the edge, not where you hug it. The positioning standard lists intersections in its primary-position situations, and state guidance says the same thing from the other end: avoid squeezing by on the right at intersections. Your instinct will be to move right. Move out instead.

The vehicular left. Look behind, signal, move across into the correct lane in good time, and turn as a car would. It is quick, it is what drivers expect, and it needs a proper look, a signal, and a gap.

The two-stage left, also called the box turn. Stay right, go straight across to the far corner, stop, and then set off again on the new road when its signals or its traffic let you. No merging across moving traffic at any point. One state’s code writes both of these out as a choice a rider has, and some towns paint a bike turn box on the ground for exactly this.

Four intersections, one at a time: a quiet crossroads, a wide four-lane road with a left-turn lane, a busy intersection with a line in every direction, and a T-intersection with a painted turn box. Draw either left through each and the card plays it back, showing where you would have had to cross moving traffic and where you would not.

Draw the vehicular left through the busy one first. It is not that it cannot be done, it is that you can see exactly how much of it depends on the gap you get.

Adult motorcycle training names its perceptual strategy SEE — Search, Evaluate, Execute, calls it the core of a personal safe-riding strategy, and says it links decision-making with visual awareness. It puts SEE at sections seventeen to nineteen of a twenty-section course. The cycle training standard uses four steps and adds one the motorcyclists leave implied: keep looking ahead and behind, close in and far out; anticipate what could happen; judge which of them matters most and prioritise your response; then respond.

Notice where both of them put it: at the end. Not because it is optional but because you cannot spend attention on the road while you are still spending it on the pedal. Everything in the four badges before this one was buying you the attention that this lesson spends.

Pick every one that is right, then press Check.

Find all 4.

Say it approaching intersections until it stops being three words and becomes the order your eyes and your hands already work in. It is the same three steps whether you are on this machine or in a car in four years.

Watch one junction. Walk both left turns.

Stand on the sidewalk at a real intersection with an adult for two minutes, not riding. Every time a gap comes, say out loud what you can see, what each thing could do next, and which one you would deal with first. Then walk both left turns through that intersection on foot and say which one you would use there and why.