To maintain proper speed
- use your brake.
- use your gears.
- use your clutch and throttle.
- All of the above ✓
Answer: D. All of the above
To maintain proper speed, you use all of these controls together — your brake, your gears, and your clutch and throttle.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's riding chapter says that to keep a steady speed you should practise using your gears, brakes and throttle. It treats gear choice as part of managing speed: you pick the gear that suits the speed of travel and the road conditions, shift up as you speed up, and shift down as you slow down. Another chapter adds that the gearshift lever is always worked together with the clutch lever, and that you must coordinate the clutch with the throttle and the shifter. So speed control draws on braking, gearing and the clutch-and-throttle combination, not just one of them.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. use your brake. — Braking only slows you down or holds a lower speed; the handbook lists brakes as just one of the controls used to keep a steady speed, alongside gears and throttle.
- B. use your gears. — Gears alone don't set your speed — the handbook also names brakes and throttle as part of keeping a steady speed, and the gearshift lever is always used together with the clutch.
- C. use your clutch and throttle. — Clutch and throttle work together for gear changes and power, but the handbook's speed-control advice also includes your brakes and gears.
Remember it
Think of speed control as a three-part toolbox: brakes, gears, and clutch with throttle — reach for whichever the situation calls for, not just one.