Driver Knowledge Tests

Braking on your motorbike

The front brake assumes around 75-90% of the braking power depending on the road surface, your riding position, your bike’s set-up and a how your bike is loaded (e.g. if you are carrying a pillion passenger, which is explained here.)

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Complete guide to carrying pillion passengers

Motorbike riders must not carry a pillion on a learner or P1 licence. You can carry one on your P2 licence with no restrictions. This gives you time to learn the characteristics of your motorbike and become more comfortable with

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What’s the real cost of getting your motorbike licence?

Like with a car licence, a motorbike licence is graduated. This means that as you progress through the licence process you become less restricted in what you can do. But what’s the real cost of getting your licence. Let’s find

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What is the real cost of getting a car licence?

While public transport, cycling and walking can serve the needs of many, it often comes with restrictions that having a driver’s licence overcomes. Additionally, some jobs require you to have a driving licence, but what is the actual cost of

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Cat’s eyes, retro-reflective pavement markers and other road markings

How do you mark a grey stretch of tarmac so that drivers can see which way it goes both in daytime and nighttime? Historically, roads didn’t have markings, but in the interests of safety, more and more roads now have

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Insurance reductions for drivers of vehicles with automatic braking

When you are buying a new car if you choose a car that has automatic braking (Autonomous Emergency Braking, or AEB) fitted as standard, and you are insured with Insurance Group Australia (IAG) then you will get a policy discount

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Manual or automatic? What should you learn in?

When you are learning to drive, if you learn in a car with an automatic gearbox you won’t be allowed to drive a manual car. If you learn with a manual gearbox, you’ll be able to drive both an automatic

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