Ontario official handbook
Ontario Motorcycle Handbook 2026
The official Motorcycle Handbook that Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) publishes for this test, 92 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Edition
- Captured 2026-07-31(our capture date, the agency states none)
- Pages
- 92
- Published by
- Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)
Like the driver's handbook, the ministry publishes this as a web document with no official PDF. This file is that official page saved as a PDF on the capture date, so the ministry's text is preserved but the pagination and the date are ours.
Read the handbook
Opens on the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
The Official MTO Motorcycle Handbook · 92 pages, 789 KB
All documents are hosted by Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO), not by us. Visit the Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)Not printed by the agency
Official source: Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)- Last checked
- Jul 31, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Ontario handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Ontario handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the G1 knowledge test comes from what Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO) publishes in this handbook. Our 223 practice questions for Ontario 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 Ontario handbook covers
These 92 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
Ontario test facts
Every figure here is Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)'s own for the G1 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
- M1, M2, M
- Minimum age
- 16
- Administered by
- Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)
- Helmet standard
- Approved helmet (Highway Traffic Act, Regulation 610)