Wo man fährt

Where the bicycle belongs

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Die Grundstellung ist die Fahrbahn, rechts, aber nicht im Rinnstein: etwa eine Türbreite Abstand zu parkenden Autos. Ein Radweg ist nur dann Pflicht, wenn eines der blauen Zeichen 237, 240 oder 241 dort steht; ohne Schild darf man ihn benutzen, muss aber nicht. Der Gehweg ist für Erwachsene tabu, Kinder unter acht müssen dorthin und dürfen es bis zehn. Dazu Schutzstreifen, Radfahrstreifen, Fahrradstraße und die Einbahnstraße mit „Radverkehr frei".

Fang bei der Grundstellung an. Ein Fahrrad gehört auf die Fahrbahn, auf die rechte Seite, in Fahrtrichtung. Nicht auf den Gehweg und nicht gegen die Richtung. Das ist die Position, auf die du zurückfällst, wenn dir nichts anderes gesagt wird.

„Rechts" heißt nicht „im Rinnstein". Fahre etwa einen Meter weit draußen — eine Autotürbreite — an parkenden Autos vorbei, und weit genug vom Bordstein, dass du ausweichen kannst, wenn ein Gully oder ein Schlagloch kommt. Zu weit rechts zu fahren ist nicht höflich, sondern die Position, aus der eine plötzlich geöffnete Tür dich nur noch in den fließenden Verkehr schicken kann.

Der Radweg ist nur dann Pflicht, wenn er beschildert ist. Einer der blauen Kreise — Fahrrad allein (237), Fahrrad und Fußgänger gemeinsam (240) oder der geteilte Kreis (241) — macht ihn zur Pflicht. Einen unbeschilderten Weg rechts darfst du benutzen, du darfst aber ebenso auf die Straße; das ist eine echte Wahl, und auf einem schmalen, scherbenreichen oder von Einfahrten durchschnittenen Weg ist die Straße oft die sicherere. Ein Weg auf der linken Seite gehört dir nur, wenn er für deine Richtung beschildert ist.

Drei Markierungen auf der Fahrbahn selbst. Eine gestrichelte weiße Linie mit Fahrradsymbolen ist ein Schutzstreifen: Er gehört zur Fahrbahn, Autos dürfen ihn überfahren, wenn sie den Platz brauchen, aber niemals darauf parken. Eine durchgezogene Linie mit dem blauen Zeichen 237 ist ein Radfahrstreifen: Dort dürfen Autos weder fahren noch parken. Eine Fahrradstraße gehört den Rädern — nebeneinander fahren ist erlaubt, 30 km/h gelten für alle, und Autos sind nur dort, wo ein Zusatzzeichen sie hineinlässt.

Und die Regeln, über die Neuankommende stolpern. Der Gehweg ist für Erwachsene tabu, immer, außer ein Schild „Radverkehr frei" erlaubt es — und dann nur im Schritttempo. Kinder unter acht müssen auf dem Gehweg fahren und dürfen es bis zehn; seit 2016 darf eine erwachsene Person zur Aufsicht daneben herfahren. Eine Einbahnstraße darf man nur gegen den Pfeil befahren, wo das kleine Schild es erlaubt. Und nebeneinander fahren ist erlaubt — solange ihr niemanden dahinter aufhaltet.

Voraussetzungen (1)

Schilder für den Radverkehr
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Ermöglicht (2)

Abbiegen und Handzeichen
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Die gefährlichen Begegnungen
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Leicht
Wahr / Falsch #1 12s ▶ Testen

Riding as close to the kerb as possible is the correct and considerate position on the road.

✓ Falsch
It is the position with no escape route: a door, a drain or a pothole leaves you nowhere but the traffic. Keep about a metre from parked cars and a hand's width of room at the kerb.
Wahr / Falsch #2 14s ▶ Testen

A cycle path on the left-hand side of the road may be used in your direction whenever it is emptier than the right-hand one.

✓ Falsch
A left-hand path is only yours if it is signed for your direction. Riding against the expected direction is how cyclists surprise drivers turning out of side roads.
Karteikarte #3 12s ▶ Testen

What does the German word "Einbahnstraße" mean?

✓ Antwort: one-way street
Eine Bahn — one lane, one direction. Bicycles only go against it where a plate says so.
Wahr / Falsch #4 12s ▶ Testen

A cycle path with no blue sign beside it is yours to use or to leave; you may ride on the road instead.

✓ Wahr
Only the three round blue signs (237, 240, 241) make a path compulsory. Without one, the choice is yours.
Multiple Choice #5 10s ▶ Testen

What is this lane called?

  • ● Schutzstreifen, an advisory cycle lane
  • ○ Radfahrstreifen, a mandatory cycle lane
  • ○ Busspur, a bus lane
The broken line is the tell. A car may cross it when it has to; a solid line it may not.
Multiple Choice #6 10s ▶ Testen

What is this lane called?

  • ● Radfahrstreifen, a mandatory cycle lane
  • ○ Schutzstreifen, an advisory cycle lane
  • ○ Busspur, a bus lane
A solid line with the round blue bicycle sign makes it a lane of its own, closed to cars.
Wahr / Falsch #7 10s ▶ Testen

A seven-year-old may ride on the road, as long as a parent rides right behind.

✓ Falsch
Under eight a child must use the footway, with or without a parent. The parent may ride on the footway alongside — not the child on the road.
Wahr / Falsch #8 10s ▶ Testen

Cyclists may always ride a one-way street in both directions.

✓ Falsch
Only where a plate with a bicycle under the one-way sign opens it. Without the plate, the arrow applies to you as well.
Wahr / Falsch #9 10s ▶ Testen

Two cyclists may ride side by side as long as they are not holding traffic up.

✓ Wahr
That is the whole condition. Once a car is waiting behind you, drop into single file — except in a bicycle street.
Mittel
Karteikarte #1 15s ▶ Testen

Where does a bicycle belong when nothing tells you otherwise?

✓ Antwort: on the road, on the right
The roadway is the default; a cycle path is the exception a sign creates.
Karteikarte #2 18s ▶ Testen

Which three signs make a cycle path compulsory?

✓ Antwort: 237, 240 and 241
Bicycle alone, bicycle and walker shared, and the split circle. Any other path on your right is optional.
Karteikarte #3 15s ▶ Testen

How far from parked cars should you ride?

✓ Antwort: about a metre
The width of an opening door — the only distance at which it cannot reach you.
Karteikarte #4 18s ▶ Testen

What does a broken white line with bicycle symbols mark?

✓ Antwort: an advisory cycle lane
Part of the roadway. Cars may cross it when they need the space; they may never park on it.
Karteikarte #5 18s ▶ Testen

What does a solid white line with the blue bicycle sign mark?

✓ Antwort: a mandatory cycle lane
Cars may neither drive on it nor park on it. The solid line is the difference.
Karteikarte #6 18s ▶ Testen

When may two cyclists ride side by side?

✓ Antwort: when they are not holding traffic up
And always in a bicycle street, where riding abreast is expressly part of the point.
Karteikarte #7 18s ▶ Testen

What is a "Fahrradstraße"?

✓ Antwort: a street where bicycles come first
Two abreast allowed, 30 km/h for everyone, motor traffic only where a plate admits it.
Karteikarte #8 12s ▶ Testen

A child must ride on the footway until what age?

✓ Antwort: 8
Must until eight, may until ten.
Karteikarte #9 12s ▶ Testen

You may ride against the arrow of a one-way street only where a plate shows a … ?

✓ Antwort: bicycle
The plate "Radverkehr frei" under the sign; without it, go round.
Karteikarte #10 12s ▶ Testen

Riding two abreast is allowed as long as you do not … traffic.

✓ Antwort: hold up
In a bicycle street riding abreast is allowed anyway.
Karteikarte #11 12s ▶ Testen

A cycle path on the left-hand side of the road is yours only if it is … for your direction.

✓ Antwort: signed
Without a sign for your direction, the left-hand path is for the other way.
Schwer
Multiple Choice #1 14s ▶ Testen

A quiet street with no cycle path and no signs. Where do you ride?

  • ● On the road, on the right, about a metre out from the parked cars
  • ○ On the pavement, where it is quieter
  • ○ On the road, as close to the kerb as you can get
The roadway is the default and the gutter is not a lane. A metre of clearance is the width of a car door, and it is also the distance at which drivers see you as traffic rather than as scenery.
Multiple Choice #2 15s ▶ Testen

A narrow, bumpy path runs beside the road on your right, with no blue sign. Where do you ride?

  • ● Either on the path or on the road — the choice is yours
  • ○ On the path; a path beside the road is always compulsory
  • ○ On the road; an unsigned path may not be used at all
Without one of the blue signs the path is an offer. You may take it, and on a surface like that you may reasonably decline it.
Multiple Choice #3 15s ▶ Testen

This sign stands beside the path on your right, and the path is full of leaves. Where do you ride?

  • ● On the path, more slowly
  • ○ On the road, because the path is in poor condition
  • ○ On the pavement beside it
A blue sign makes the path compulsory, and leaves are not an exception. Only a genuinely impassable path — building works, deep snow, a parked lorry — sends you back onto the road.
Multiple Choice #4 14s ▶ Testen

The road is busy and the pavement is empty. Where do you ride?

  • ● On the road; the pavement is not open to an adult on a bicycle
  • ○ On the pavement, slowly, since nobody is walking there
  • ○ On the pavement, and back on the road once the traffic thins
Riding on the footway is the classic newcomer move and it is banned. It is also where cyclists get hit, because drivers pulling out of driveways do not look at the pavement.
Multiple Choice #5 16s ▶ Testen

You are riding with a six-year-old. Where does the child ride, and where do you?

  • ● The child on the pavement, and you may ride there beside them
  • ○ Both of you on the road, with the child in front
  • ○ Both of you on the pavement, at walking pace
Children under eight must use the footway and may until they are ten. Since 2016 one adult may ride on the footway alongside a child under eight to supervise them — an exception written for exactly this.
Multiple Choice #6 16s ▶ Testen

A car edges onto the broken white line beside you to get past an oncoming van. What do you do?

  • ● Expect it; a broken line may be crossed when a driver needs the room
  • ○ Hold your line; cars may never touch that strip
  • ○ Move onto the pavement until the van has passed
A broken line marks an advisory lane, still part of the roadway. Cars may cross it when necessary — but never park on it. A solid line with the blue sign is the one they must stay out of.
Multiple Choice #7 14s ▶ Testen

A one-way street runs towards you and there is no bicycle plate on the sign. What do you do?

  • ● Go round; you may not ride against the arrow here
  • ○ Ride against the arrow, keeping well right
  • ○ Ride against the arrow on the pavement
Riding a one-way street the wrong way is only allowed where a plate with a bicycle explicitly opens it, and plenty of streets do not have one.
Multiple Choice #8 14s ▶ Testen

You are riding beside a friend on a wide, empty road when a car comes up behind. What do you do?

  • ● Drop into single file so the car can get past
  • ○ Stay side by side; riding abreast is always allowed
  • ○ Both move onto the pavement to let it through
Riding two abreast is allowed as long as you are not holding traffic up. Once someone is behind you, that condition has stopped being true. In a bicycle street it stays true anyway.
Karteikarte #9 18s ▶ Testen

Up to what age must a child ride on the footway, and up to what age may they?

✓ Antwort: must until 8, may until 10
And since 2016 one adult may ride on the footway alongside a child under eight.
Multiple Choice #10 14s ▶ Testen

You are riding along a road that has this lane on your side. Where do you ride?

  • ● In the lane; it is compulsory for you
  • ○ On the road beside it, if you prefer
  • ○ On the pavement, away from the traffic
A Radfahrstreifen carries the blue bicycle sign, and that sign makes it compulsory, just like a signed cycle path. The pavement is never the answer for an adult.
Multiple Choice #11 14s ▶ Testen

The cycle path on your side is full of puddles. Across the road a left-hand path is dry, with no sign for your direction. What do you do?

  • ● Stay on your side — the left-hand path is not yours without a sign
  • ○ Cross over and use the dry path; any free path will do
  • ○ Ride on the pavement instead
A left-hand path counts for your direction only when it is signed for it. Drivers turning out of side roads look for cyclists coming the other way.