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Nevada Motorcycle: Hazards & Road Surfaces practice test
Gravel, wet pavement, grooved roads, and railroad tracks — reading and handling surfaces that matter far more on two wheels.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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12 sample Hazards & Road Surfaces questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
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1. A small animal darts into your path while you are surrounded by traffic. What does the manual advise?
Correct answer: Stay in your lane, since hitting something small beats hitting a car
Do what you safely can to miss an animal, but in traffic hold your lane — striking something small is less dangerous than hitting a car.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Animals
2. After running over an object in the road, what should a rider do?
Correct answer: Stop somewhere safe and inspect the tires and rims
Pull off the road and look the tires and rims over for damage before continuing.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
3. What should you do with your body just before riding over a bump you cannot avoid?
Correct answer: Rise slightly off the seat and absorb the shock through knees and elbows
Lift slightly off the seat with your weight carried on the footrests so knees and elbows soak up the jolt instead of the rider being thrown off.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
4. What should a rider do about the wandering feeling on rain grooves or a bridge grating?
Correct answer: Relax, hold a steady speed and ride straight across
That uneasy weaving is generally not dangerous: stay relaxed, hold a steady speed and go straight across, because crossing at an angle forces a far riskier zigzag.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
5. When is wet pavement usually at its most treacherous?
Correct answer: In the first minutes of rain, before surface oil is washed aside
The worst moment comes in the first minutes of rain, before the oil lying on the surface has been washed toward the edge of the road.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
6. A pavement seam runs the same direction you are traveling. How should you get across it?
Correct answer: Move away from it, then turn deliberately to cross at forty-five degrees or more
Move far enough clear of the seam that you can turn deliberately and cross it at an angle of at least forty-five degrees; edging over it can catch a tire.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
7. Which of these turns notably slick, above all when wet?
Correct answer: Painted lane markings, steel plates and manhole covers
Painted lane markings, steel plates and manhole covers all offer poor traction, and wet weather makes them worse.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
8. At what angle should a rider meet an obstacle that cannot be avoided?
Correct answer: As close to a right angle as you can manage
Where going over something is unavoidable, take it as near to a right angle as the road allows and look where you want to end up.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
9. As rain begins to fall, which part of the lane is usually the better choice?
Correct answer: The tracks worn by car tires, often the left one
Riding in the tracks worn by car tires keeps a rider off the center of the lane, and the left track is often the best of them.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
10. Where does ice tend to linger after the rest of the road has cleared?
Correct answer: In shaded or low spots and on bridges and overpasses
Patches form and hold on in low or shaded spots and on bridges and overpasses, where rain dries and snow melts more slowly.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
11. How should a rider handle a dog that gives chase?
Correct answer: Slow down as you come up to it, then accelerate away
Change down and come up to the animal slowly, then accelerate and leave it behind, keeping control and looking where you want to go rather than kicking at it.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Animals
12. On a surface so slick that you must travel at walking pace, the manual suggests:
Correct answer: staying off the brakes, squeezing the clutch and coasting
Keep off the brakes, pull in the clutch and coast, and consider letting your feet skim the surface so you can catch the machine if it starts to go over.
Source: Nevada Motorcycle Operator Manual — Ride Within Your Abilities, Handling Dangerous Surfaces
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