Alberta official handbook
Alberta Rider's Guide 2026
The official Rider's Guide that Alberta Transportation publishes for this test, 73 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Spring 2023
- Pages
- 73
- Published by
- Alberta Transportation
Read the handbook
Opens on the Alberta Transportation website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
Rider's Guide: Motorcycles, Mopeds and Power-Assisted Bicycles · 73 pages, 3.6 MB
All documents are hosted by Alberta Transportation, not by us. Visit the Alberta Transportation handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Alberta TransportationSpring 2023
Official source: Alberta Transportation- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Alberta handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Alberta handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge test comes from what Alberta Transportation publishes in this handbook. Our 224 practice questions for Alberta are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Alberta handbook covers
These 73 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Getting a motorcycle licence and the stages before a full one
- Helmets, eye protection and the rest of your gear
- Pre-ride inspection and what to check every time
- Riding position and where to sit in the lane
- Countersteering, cornering and control at speed
- Braking with both wheels, and what to do when one locks
- Shifting, downshifting and starting on a hill
- Being seen: conspicuity, lane position and blind spots
- Gravel, wet paint, grates, ruts and other poor surfaces
- Group riding and following distance
- Emergencies: quick stops, obstacles, wobbles and blowouts
Alberta test facts
Every figure here is Alberta Transportation's own for the Class 7 knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- Not published
- Pass mark
- No published pass mark
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Licence class
- Class 6-GDL, Class 6
- Minimum age
- 16
- Administered by
- Alberta Transportation
- Helmet standard
- CSA, DOT, BSI or Snell