Cycling UK has produced a series of easily accessible video guides on maintenance and road safety. In this guide, we’ve come up with five top tips for staying safe while out on your bike.
In our previous video guide we explained some basic road positioning and how to tackle some of the most common junctions.
In the last of our five guides, we’ve put together five top tips to help you with a safer journey.
The video covers:
• Checking your surroundings
• Brake sense
• Observe and anticipate
• Road positioning
• Finishing your journey
We’ve also put together five written guides, designed to be downloaded on your phone for reference, covering the M-check, puncture repair, brake and gear adjustments, the essential tools you need and repairing a broken chain.
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/road-maintenance-guides
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5 Comments
Only indicate IF it is safe to do so AND if it is necessary, indicating to no-one is pointless and sets a bad habit of always indicating when you don't need to or impinges on your control. It is far more important to have control and road position early than it is to start waving your arm about which is as likely to be ignored by a moton anyway. There is absolutely no requirement for you to indicate though it can help, being in control of the bike takes precedence every single time!
Remember, you have priority, it is incumbent on those behind to wait for a safe opportunity to pass, you should not hinder your safety/space to ease their transit, what might feel safe for one person isn't for another and encouraging drivers to squeeze by by moving out the way and putting yourself at greater risk of harm when you have priority is not a good thing.
Additionally, do not rely on "eye contact", you cannot know if a driver has actually acknowledged you, eye contact is really a rather poor point to put across and it does not guarantee nor gain you assurance that they've seen you. Constantly looking behind is equally not advisable and nor is having mirros which are equally as distracting. Focus on what's ahead for the most part but look behind well in advance of significant position changes and potential hazards, this is all part of the advance planning you need to do whether you are on bike, in car, on foot or any other mode of transport.
When turning right (or left in driving on the right countries) never position your self too close to the centre line, for one this doesn't give you any safety space with oncoming traffic, second if you leave a big gap to your near-side you encourage motorists to bomb through at their normal excessive speeds. In busy traffic position yourself a good 2-3 feet away from the dividing line, this means motorists will have to slow down to pass you on the nearside whilst you've enough extra space should a wider vehicle be approaching from the opposite lane who may need to take a wider line past the junction to get past parked vehicles further up their lane.
Why are some of the riders not wearing a helmet ?
The bicycles fail to prove safety in crash tests are trash for suicide squad. Bicyclists lives
matters. Safe yourself and children on the road. Bicycle RUSSIA – the BEST!!!
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100% of cycle accidents are not caused by bicycles.