How To Keep You And The Ones You Love Safe Using A Helmet Mounted Bike Mirror

In a new series of articles to be released this month, we will talk about genuine situations you can get struck and genuine methods to avoid them. This is not going to be your typical bicycle protection tips, which usually recommend you little more than to use your bicycle helmet and to follow the law. But consider this for a minute: Using a bicycle helmet will do absolutely nothing to avoid you from getting struck by an automobile. Sure, bicycle helmets could protect a little you if you get hit, however your # 1 objective should be to avoid getting struck in the first place. A lot of riders are killed by cars even though they were using bicycle helmets. Ironically, if they had cycled without helmets, yet followed the insight on the series of published pages, they could still be alive today. Do not fall for the misconception that using a bicycle helmet is the first and last word in cycling safety. In fact, an ounce of avoidance is worth a pound of treatment. It's much better to not get struck to begin with. That's what genuine bike safety has to do with.

The next most common bike safety insight after "put on a helmet" is "obey the law," however the majority of individuals are currently conscious that it's silly to go through a red light when there's on-coming traffic. So the "follow the law" insight isn't really that handy due to the fact that it's too obvious. What you'll find right here are a number of situations that possibly aren't that obvious.

Another problem with the "obey the law" statement is that individuals may think that's all they have to do. But following the law is insufficient to protect you, not by a long shot. Below's an example: The law tells you to ride as far to the right as possible. But if you ride too far to the right, someone leaving a parked car might open their door right in front of you, and you'll be less visible to drivers pulling out of driveways and parking areas, and drivers coming from behind may pass you way too closely in the exact same lane due to the fact that you didn't make them alter lanes. In each of these situations you were following the law, however you made it much easier for yourself to get struck. These series of pages and articles does not focus on the law, it concentrates on the best ways to not get struck by cars. Now let's see the best ways to avoid getting hit.

Please check back next week for our first installment of useful methods and suggestions to avoid getting struck by cars. Till then, remain safe and never ever stop riding!

Article sponsored by http://www.Geared2U.com and used with permission from http://www.BicycleSafe.com by Michael Bluejay.