Unless a road sign tells you otherwise, the motorcycle speed limit inside cities and towns is
- 30 km per hour.
- 50 km per hour. ✓
- 70 km per hour.
- 60 km per hour.
Answer: B. 50 km per hour.
Unless a road sign says otherwise, the motorcycle speed limit inside cities and towns is 50 km per hour.
Why this is the answer
The handbook lists the speed limits that apply when no sign gives a different number: 50 km/h within cities and towns and 80 km/h outside them. Since the question asks about riding inside cities and towns with no sign saying otherwise, the listed limit is 50 km/h. The same passage says the posted limit is the maximum for ideal conditions and that you should ride slower when conditions are not ideal, but that does not change the city or town limit itself.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. 30 km per hour. — A 30 km/h limit appears in the handbook for playground zones, not as the general speed limit inside cities and towns.
- C. 70 km per hour. — The handbook does not list 70 km/h as the speed limit inside cities and towns; it gives 50 km/h for those areas.
- D. 60 km per hour. — The handbook does not list 60 km/h as the speed limit inside cities and towns; the stated city and town limit is 50 km/h.
Remember it
When no sign changes it, think fifty for town and eighty for the open road.
Official handbook: ICBC Learn to Ride Smart, Chapter 6: see-think-do – do, p. 76