Bicycle Trips and Safety

 Bicycle Trips and  Safety

If you want to enjoy your holidays in the neighborhood of nature, a bicycle trip can be a nice activity for you. A bicycle trip offers many opportunities for nature lovers. Many youngsters love going for sightseeing tours on bicycles, as there are many advantages involved in the activities for them, as well.

One of the benefits of a bicycle trip is that it helps you to strengthen your muscles and ribs. And to learn more, here are some bicycle trip and safety tips:

Safety of bicyclists is one of the most important things that every trip organizer should provide to bicyclists. While planning about bicycle trip, you should think about the following things:

* Weather
* Route
* Trip kit

One of the basic safety rules for bicyclists is that they should follow the law and rules of traffic. It is always better to ask your trip organizer about bicycle trips and safety of bicyclists before going on trip.

If you are going on bicycle at night, it is necessary for you to use a front light. You can use a bright white light having a flashing mode at daytime in order to look more visible to motorists who will cross you. While going on bicycle trip, it is better if you use a new headlight that lasts longer than old light. You can also use head mounted lights or helmet, so other riders and car drivers who are supposed to cross you through journey can see your headlight from a distance.

If you read a brochure of a bicycle trip organizer, you will find lot of information on bicycle trips and safety of bicyclists:

* While going on bicycle trip, fit a loud horn to your bike and use it whenever you look something coming ahead of you.
* If you do not have a horn, you can use a bell instead.
* If you are unable to make eye contact with a driver who is coming in front of you, decelerate the speed of your bike in order to stop at any moment if required.
* While halting at signals, do not stop in the dark spot. Instead of that, you can stop behind a car or another vehicle. It will make you visible to traffic from all sides and the vehicle behind you cannot avoid seeing you if you are in front of it.
*  If you come off the walkway to cross the lane, you are undetectable to turning motorists, so avoid riding on the sidewalk.
* In daytime it is better if you wear something bright, like orange or yellow reflective vests or reflective leg bands, so all riders and motorists can see you completely.

While going on bicycle trip, do not forget to take bicycle tools kit with you, as it can be very helpful during emergency. In this way, you can make your bicycle trip memorable by learning in advance about bicycle trips and safety of bicyclists.