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Section check: Money and Strangers
Six lessons, six decisions. Get one wrong and it will tell you which lesson to go back to, and you can come again as many times as you like. Finishing this section means you got all six right, not that you scraped a pass. The Road Badge itself comes after all eight sections.
Step 1 of 6
1Decide
The nearest big flat space is a shopping centre car park – at midday, full of cars circling for a space.
Yes, and the thing that changed is the time, not the size. The test for a practice space was never how much room there is – it’s whether anything in it is moving. The same tarmac is two completely different venues at eight in the morning and at midday.
Size isn’t the test here. A quiet corner is still inside a lot where cars reverse without looking, which is exactly the risk this whole badge is built to avoid. Nothing moving is the test – not how much space, not how careful you plan to be. Go back to 3.1.
Pick the right one to carry on.
2Decide
You're about to set off in the empty lot with nobody else around. It feels pointless to look ahead and behind first.
Yes, and that’s exactly why it belongs here. A habit built only where it matters is a habit you’re still deciding whether to use. Build it here, where it costs nothing and there’s nothing at stake, and it’s already running by the time a junction actually needs it.
The point isn’t what’s there today. It’s training your hands and eyes to do the same steps in the same order every time, so that on a real road you’re not deciding whether to look – you already are. Skipping it here is how it gets skipped later, when it matters. Go back to 3.2.
Pick the right one to carry on.
3Decide
You're stopped at the give-way line, both feet down, both pedals hanging level at three and nine.
Yes, and this is the part that actually pays off. A rider who stops with the pedal already at two moves the moment a gap appears. A rider who doesn’t has to fumble for a pedal first, and that fumble happens in the one place you least want to spend two spare seconds – out in the middle of a junction.
Knowing which foot goes down is only half the stop. The other half is what you do with your hands while you’re sitting still: lift a pedal back to two before you let go of the bars. Skip that and the machine is ready for nothing when the gap finally comes. Go back to 3.3.
Pick the right one to carry on.
4Decide
Halfway down the practice corridor you feel yourself starting to drift towards one of the chalk lines.
Yes, and it feels like the wrong answer. You go where you look, so the fix for a drift is looking at where you want to be, not at the thing going wrong. Steady pedalling helps too – a machine with drive going through it sits down better than one coasting.
Both of those make it worse the same way. Watching the wheel puts your eyes about a metre ahead, so everything you do arrives late, and coasting takes the drive out right when you need the machine settled. Look far, keep pedalling. Go back to 3.4.
Pick the right one to carry on.
5Decide
Halfway through the weave you're coming into the next marker too fast.
Yes, and both halves of it matter. Rear brake, because the front one tucks a leaning machine at low speed and puts it on its side. Looking further through, because the reason you arrived too fast is that you were watching the marker in front of you instead of past it.
The front brake is right almost everywhere else in this course, and wrong here. Grab it in a slow, tight turn and the machine tucks in and goes down. Steering round wide just moves the same problem to the next marker instead of fixing it. Rear brake, look through. Go back to 3.5.
Pick the right one to carry on.
6Find them
Which of these are true about braking and cornering on this machine?
Tap the ones that count.
Find all 4.
Section done: Money and Strangers.
Every question right. Seven more sections and the Road Badge is yours. Show a parent this screen tonight, and tell them one thing from this section you did not know before.
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