Contents:
- Medical Video: Basics Of City Cycling | Safety and Confidence
- 1. Choose the best equipment
- 2. Understand your bicycle
- 3. Slow down
- 4. Understand the traffic rules
- 5. Understand the destination
Medical Video: Basics Of City Cycling | Safety and Confidence
In addition to being healthier, by cycling to campus or to the office, you can save a lot of expenses, including your health budget and transportation costs that you have to spend. But often, cycling to go to campus or to the office sounds scary. Especially if you live in a big city, where almost all residents race against time to arrive at their destination, with their own vehicle-speed-full-speed. Here are some cycling tips in the big city that you can try to practice.
1. Choose the best equipment
Buying a bicycle is certainly the most important thing you need to decide. But it's best before deciding to buy a particular bicycle, you specify first, for what bike you will use. Different goals, of course, the different specifications of the bike you need.
Preferably, try also various types of bikes first. You are even advised to try a friend's bicycle. By experimenting with various types of bicycles, you will find it easier to get an idea, what kind of bicycle will suit your purpose.
Other equipment such as helmets, mirrors and bicycle bells are also highly recommended for cyclists to prepare. Apart from these items being able to keep your body's vital organs (especially the brain) from more serious injuries, the safety equipment is also able to minimize your chances of being in a condition that endangers your life, especially for cycling in big cities.
2. Understand your bicycle
After you get your best bike, before you really take it to the field, you should first understand your bike. How is the maintenance, how to change the speed, how to manage and change the chain, how to pump the tires to how to ride it.
These things may be simple, but will be able to prevent an accident in any form on a bicycle trip in your city, so you can increase your confidence in riding a bicycle in the midst of the hustle and bustle of big city streets.
3. Slow down
Before you actually use it in a big way, you can first get used to using it in small alleys or maybe a residential complex where you live and around it. After you feel you are using it smoothly, then you raise the challenge of the field little by little. Start by cycling in the city with a small volume of vehicles, to large roads with high vehicle volumes. With you doing this exercise, in addition to practicing the ability of cycling, you will indirectly be more familiar with your body and to what extent is your ability.
You also are not advised to impose your strength limits. A literature writes that, most traffic accidents in cycling actually occur when you are too rushed to travel long distances, when your body is actually not really ready.
4. Understand the traffic rules
A cyclist needs a high level of focus to avoid himself from danger. With you understanding the traffic rules in the city, your focus will be more awake than any diversion. You will also be more focused on listening to your surroundings, like a vehicle horn behind you, by not using music listeners of any kind.
Sometimes there are even rules that are actually made by road users that are not written in black and white, such as not trying to overtake a car that will turn right and how much distance you have to provide if you are behind a car.
To know a lot of important points like this, it would be better if you first did a lot of discussion with the cyclists who had started before you.
5. Understand the destination
Before you cycle to a particular city, you should do a small search of the terrain you are going to go through. Which route should you choose, how the condition of the route, to where you should park your bicycle. When you are going to a new place, you can also find out about the travel conditions around the area by first seeking information about the cyclical community in the region.
But more than all the tips above actually, you must first be able to face your fear of starting, especially if you have had a bad experience about it, falling off a bicycle for example.
