BICYCLE saFETY eQUIPmeNT

GLOVE

The most-used bicycle safety equipment aside from helmets is probably the glove. Gloves protect the skin on the palms of your hands when you fall on pavement. Some are padded to protect the hands from compression stress from the handlebars on long rides. They keep your hands warm in winter. When you ride through a patch of glass they let you stop and wipe the glass bits from your tires before the glass penetrates the tread fully. (Don't try this while still moving!) Gloves are highly recommended. We like the washable ones for summer use. For winter we find that the ones with non-breathable membranes get wet on every ride, and have to be dried out thoroughly before another use or they turn rancid inside. Down mittens are the warmest thing we have found for winter, but they also get wet


                            MOUTH GUARD...............

                                                                                            Many contact sports use mouthguards to protect the participants. That includes boxing, football and many others. There is evidence that blows to the chin do a lot more than mess up your teeth. Energy transmitted by the jaw joint can be channeled straight to the brain, producing the same effects seen in fighters when they are hit too hard. A good mouthguard or jaw-joint protector stabilizes the jaw by engaging both the upper and lower teeth. That can be expensive, or just a few bucks from a sporting goods store for a "boil and bite" that conforms to your teeth after heating briefly in boiling water. Most riders find a mouthguard confining because it can interfere with mouth breathing, spitting and shouting at dogs, cars and pedestrians. There are designs that have central vents to minimize those problems.

FLAG,,,,,,,,


Low profile recumbents and others who are concerned about being out of sight in traffic often use a bike flag. Long distance tourists favor them for increased visibility on highways. They are readily available at big box retail stores as well as bike stores, usually in orange or white for high visibility




ACTIVE LIGHT........


There is no substitute for active lights if you ride a bicycle after dark. No reflective device or material can achieve the visibility that electric lights can achieve. We use the largest headlights we can, plus the typical blinking rear lights that identify a bicycle as a bicycle, and always have some redundancy to accommodate the notorious unreliability of bike lights.


Active lights unfortunately require active maintenance, but we think no rider should be without them at night. Horns We don't find that horns do much for safety on a bicycle. Your voice is faster to react and adapts better to different situations. The primal scream produces good adrenalin-based reactions in motorists and is probably your best defense in most bike/car situations. It requires no evaluation by the driver, since the panic in your voice is obvious, and it can move a car over a lane almost instantly. Curse words will not improve on that, by the way, since you will get a quicker reaction when the motorist is scared, not angry.

BIcycLE sAFEty

Bicycle users are mostly involved in an accident.Along with increased use of bicycles comes the risk of significant injuriesThe most common cause of bicycle crashes is due to falls or collisions with stationary objects. Collisions involving motor vehicles account for 90% of all bicycle-related deaths and 10% of nonfatal injuries. The majority of these bicycle 
deaths are caused by head injuries

15 tips for bicycle

1. Always wear a helmet (lead by example, how can you make your kids wear a helmet if you don’t)

2. Always ride in control as well as your kids (if your kids ride out of control, they could cause an accident and injure others in addition to themselves)

3. Wear riding gloves (they’re not just super cool accessories for guys driving Camaros or 911’s – riding gloves protect your palms in case of a fall)

4. Ride single file on streets and roads (common sense – cars are big, you are small)

5. Ride single file on trails (if you are being approached by another rider, pedestrian, runner or skater, please get single file – it’s trail etiquette)

6. Ride far to the right on streets and roads (common sense again – cars are big, you are small)

7. Use hand signals when riding on streets or in groups

8. Keep at least two bike lengths between adult riders and one bike length between you and your kids

9. Carry a first aid kit

10. Carry a tire patch kit, spare tube and pump (please be sure to know how to change a tube, patch a tire and repair a chain – or have a local bike shop on speed dial)

11. Pull all the way off the street or trail if you are stopping (whether it’s a breakdown, reading a map or taking a water break please move out of traffic)

12. Bring your cell phone (shut it off if possible and use for emergencies)

13. Carry water (and don’t forget to bring some for your kids)

14. Obey traffic signs

15. Down shift before you come to a stop (you don’t want to be stuck in the middle of an intersection frantically trying to find a lower gear as a car is bearing down on you…not good)

BiCYCLE FOR FUN

Many people of today wanted to have a bicycle used for fun for it is enjoyable riding a bike around the place you wanted to go. Bicycle is a device in which almost everybody love to ride on it. Children riding a Bicycle enjoy very much together with friends who are also have its own bike. It is really fun to ride a Bicycle especially during summer under the canopies of those big trees in which you can breathe and feel the fresh air. Bicycle is an affordable vehicle that everybody from different walks of life can easily have it. Everyone can ride anytime they wanted as long that the machine is in good form. Bicycle has a low maintenance if some parts have been damage it can be easily replace.                                               

FIXIE BICYCLE

Fixie merupakan nama yang timbul daripada perkataan “fixed-gear” kerana basikal ini tidak mempunyai freewheel. Bermakna tidak seperti basikal lain, pengayuh basikal akan tetap berpusing ketika basikal ini bergerak. Oleh sebab ini basikal fixie tidak mempunyai brek dan untuk memberhentikan basikal ini haruslah menggunakan kaki bahkan ia boleh dikayuh mengundur

 Dalam post ini saya ingin berkongsi beberapa fakta menarik mengenai basikal fixed gear ini............

1. Basikal fixie ini mula diperkenalkan pada tahun 1950, baru-baru ini ia mula menjadi trend di kalangan remaja di Malaysia.
2. Basikal fixie tidak mempunyai brek dan sesetengah negara mempunyai undang-undang melarang penggunaan basikal tanpa brek.
3. Untuk memberhentikan basikal fixie penunggang harus menggunakan tenaga yang kuat untuk menghalang pengayuh dari berpusing dan menyebabkan basikal itu bergelongsor. Perbuatan ini dipanggil sebagai “skidding”.
4. Sesetangah penunggang fixie berpendapat basikal fixie ini dapat membantu penunggang mengayuh dengan lebih efisyen.
5. Basikal fixie tidak mempunyai gear.
6. Harga basikal fixie adalah dari RM500 ke ribuan ringgit bergantung kepada jenama dan kualiti basikal.
7. Penunggang fixie mempunyai komuniti sendiri dimana mereka akan berkumpul dan menunggang basikal fixie beramai-ramai.
8. Seperti basikal BMX, fixie juga mempunyai skill atau trick yang tersediri yang boleh dilakukan oleh penunggang yang mahir.
9. Basikal fixie bagus untuk melatih otot kaki kerana ia tidak membenarkan anda untuk “coasting” dimana pada basikal biasa anda akan merehatkan kaki anda dengan memberhentikan kayuhan ketika basikal masih berjalan.
10. Sesetangah penunggang berpendapat menunggang fixie memberikan mereka lebih “feel” kerana ia memberikan lebih rasa cengkaman ketika menunggang terutamanya di jalan yang licin