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    How To Ride In A City | Bike Riding Tips For Busy And Urban Streets



    Riding your bike in the city can be tricky. Traffic is not always easy to negotiate and is often intimidating for cyclists. In this video, Hank explains how you can become more confident riding in the city, as well as how to make sure you stay safe and enjoy getting around the city by bike!

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    1. prettygirlchaz on

      I'm planning on getting an ebike eventually. Where I'm at, there aren't really a lot of bike lanes so say if I were in the right lane behind a car (without a bike lane) and I wanted to turn left into a place, would be more helpful to use an actual bike turning signal device? Can you even cross over like that? I'm just curious about that

    6. Kyle Stewart on

      I ride around suburban areas but I’ve got very little interest in city riding. Thankfully, I don’t live in a major city area so it’s not a concern. There are far too many idiots, impatient and inept drivers and outright sociopaths driving around the city. Even if you do everything correctly, the likelihood of being clipped or even killed seems awfully high in congested cities.

    8. Kat's Craft Shop on

      Thank you for the video, I commute to work every day in South UK. In the summer due to the steep hills and hot weather, I always arrive to work sweaty, does not matter what I wear, not a great feeling. Like your handlebar, interesting.

    14. Phillip Mulligan on

      My problem is not heavy busy traffic. My beef is with phsycho black pickup truck drivers who intentionally run you over or shot at you as they drive by. Road rage is now the main deadly threat to us bikers, especially in the US. If a pickup driver does not intentionally run you down he's just as likely to take drive by potshots at you. Consider yourself to have a big target on your back as soon as you hope on a bike

    16. First Last on

      I want to ride my bike to work for the first time. It's only 10 minutes away, and the roads aren't crazy busy, but I'm nervous AF. I've only ever rode on trails. My city doesn't have much support for bikes either.

    18. Bierzo élite on

      thanks for the video ! need to teach my wife how to ride . need to increase that confidence in her skills !
      all those tips are good except the last one ! if it is safe to race I feel every commuter should do so ! there's nothing nicer to get home all sweaty ! and it's a good way to make friends ! after all that is the reason we by such good bikes innit ?? 😂😂😂

    23. St Wg on

      If you’re commuting get signal lights. I’m in Canada and here no one has seen the hand signals since they got a drivers license since they were 16. No one knows what you are signalling without lights.

    24. Bada Bing888 on

      I would say mount a right wing mirror on your handlebar as a minimum to see what is behind you. Also I would get a dual camera and mount it on your helmet and indicate to cars and vans drivers coming from behind you. It will help make most give you the necessary space of 1.5m and those who don’t you will have evidence to report to police to educate them.

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