When turning and steering at low speed you should
- lean the motorcycle and your body over to the side you are turning to.
- lean the bike over only if necessary and keep your body upright. ✓
- keep yourself and the bike up straight turning only the handlebars.
- None of the above
Answer: B. lean the bike over only if necessary and keep your body upright.
At low speed, lean the motorcycle only if needed and keep your own body upright.
Why this is the answer
The handbook describes slow turns as a balancing act. At speeds up to 10 km/h, the motorcycle is unsteady and wanders, so you steer by turning the handlebars toward the direction you want to go. In slow turns, you counterbalance: lean the motorcycle only if necessary and keep your body upright. That is the answer. The handbook connects leaning both rider and motorcycle together with medium or high speeds, not with slow-speed turns.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. lean the motorcycle and your body over to the side you are turning to. — Leaning your body over with the motorcycle is not the slow-speed method; at slow speed you counterbalance by keeping your body upright.
- C. keep yourself and the bike up straight turning only the handlebars. — Keeping both you and the motorcycle straight ignores that the motorcycle may need to lean in a slow turn while you stay upright.
- D. None of the above — This is wrong because the counterbalancing method described in the handbook is among the choices.
Remember it
Slow turn, upright body: let the bike lean only when it needs to, and turn the bars where you want to go.
Official handbook: ICBC Learn to Ride Smart, Chapter 6: see-think-do – do, p. 78