Rules for bicyclists — Kentucky Permit Test
Rules for bicyclists on the Kentucky permit test — 8 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A Kentucky bicyclist may never ride on interstates and parkways.
Those roads carry traffic at seventy miles an hour with no shoulder to survive in.
Never ride on interstates and parkways.
A Kentucky bicyclist rides on the right side of the road with traffic.
Riding against the traffic doubles the closing speed and puts the rider where no driver looks.
Ride a bicycle on the right side of the road with traffic.
A Kentucky bicyclist stops at stop signs and for stop lights just like a motor vehicle.
The rules of the road do not have a bicycle exception, and drivers are not expecting one.
Stop at stop signs and for stop lights just like a motor vehicle.
A Kentucky bicyclist riding at night operates the bicycle with a white light visible from the front and a red reflector or light visible from the rear.
Two different colors at the two ends is how a driver tells which way the bicycle is going.
When riding at night, operate the bicycle with a white light visible from the front and a red reflector or light visible from the rear.
All Kentucky slower-moving vehicles including bicycles shall drive as closely as practical to the right-hand boundary of the highway.
Keeping right is what lets the traffic behind get past without crossing into oncoming lanes.
All slower-moving vehicles, including bicycles, shall drive as closely as practical to the right-hand boundary of the highway.
A Kentucky bicyclist yields to pedestrians in crosswalks and on sidewalks, and gives an audible warning before passing them.
A pedestrian who cannot hear a bicycle coming steps into its path without meaning to.
Give an audible warning (bell or horn) before passing pedestrians.
A Kentucky bicyclist should never ride more than two abreast so as to interfere with the normal movement of traffic.
Two riders side by side is the limit the law gives, and even that has to leave the traffic moving.
Never ride more than two abreast so as to interfere with the normal movement of traffic.
A Kentucky bicyclist carries no more persons than the number for which the bicycle is designed and equipped.
A bicycle built for one steers and stops for one.
Carry no more persons than the number for which the bicycle is designed and equipped.
On the test
Where may a Kentucky bicyclist never ride?
On interstates and parkways. Those roads carry traffic at seventy miles an hour with no shoulder to survive in. Kentucky Driver Manual, p.61: “Never ride on interstates and parkways.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Kentucky Driver Manual, published by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/KY.pdf (Kentucky Driver Manual, Kentucky State Police / Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, retrieved 2026-09-14; no edition statement in the document)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/KY.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 8, folioMarker, nonLawPages, the extraction flag and knowledgeTestBasis, each with its basis)