Bicyclist rules — Alaska Permit Test
Bicyclist rules on the Alaska permit test — 9 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Bicyclists in Alaska are required to obey traffic signs, signals and all other traffic laws.
Drivers predict a rider who follows the same rules; a rider who runs a light surprises everyone.
BICYCLISTS: Bicyclists are required to obey traffic signs, signals, and all other traffic laws.
Under Alaska law, no points are assessed for traffic violations committed while using a bicycle.
Points track the risk a person poses behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, so a ticket earned on a bike adds none.
Alaska Law AS 28.15.231 (b) states that no points are assessed for traffic violations when using a bicycle.
Bicyclists should ride near the right-hand edge of the road.
Riding at the edge leaves faster traffic room to pass and keeps the rider where drivers expect a bike.
Ride your bicycle near the right-hand edge of the road
A bicyclist should never carry another person on the bicycle.
A passenger throws off the bike's balance and steering, and the rider cannot stop or swerve well.
Never carry another person on your bicycle
A bicyclist signals a stop with the left arm extended and bent down at the elbow.
Drivers behind a bike need to know it is slowing, and a bike has no brake lights to tell them.
Stop - left arm extended and bent down at elbow;
A bicyclist may signal a right turn with the right arm fully extended to the right, or with the left arm extended and bent up at the elbow.
Knowing both forms means you read a rider's right turn correctly whichever arm they use.
Right turn - right arm fully extended to right or left arm extended and bent up at elbow
A bicyclist should not pass vehicles that are turning, especially on the side to which they are turning, and should stay out of vehicles' blind spots.
A turning car, truck or bus cannot see a bike in its blind spot and will turn right across it.
Do not pass when vehicles are turning, especially on the side to which they are making the turn.
A bicyclist who wears headphones should always keep one earbud out.
A rider must hear horns, shouting pedestrians and car doors opening to react in time.
If you’re going to wear headphones while biking be sure to always keep one earbud out.
Bicyclists should give pedestrians the right-of-way.
A walker hit by a bike gets hurt too, and has even less warning than from a car.
Give pedestrians the right-of-way
On the test
Which traffic laws does the Alaska manual say a bicyclist must obey?
Signs, signals and all other traffic laws. Drivers predict a rider who follows the same rules; a rider who runs a light surprises everyone. Alaska Driver Manual, p.50: “BICYCLISTS: Bicyclists are required to obey traffic signs, signals, and all other traffic laws.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Alaska Driver Manual, published by the Alaska Department of Administration, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pdf (Alaska Driver Manual, REV.10/2025, Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/AK.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/drivermanual/ (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/instruction-permit/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://dmv.alaska.gov/credential-services/your-first-alaska-drivers-license/ (read 2026-10-04; states no count or mark)
- https://www.akleg.gov/basis/aac.asp?media=print&secStart=2.90.010&secEnd=2.90.990 (2 AAC 90, read 2026-10-04; 2 AAC 90.420(h)(2) sets the knowledge test's retest wait and no figure)