6 Tips to protect your safety during group cycling
Cycling activities that gather tens of thousands of people are completely different from your usual cycling. Let’s learn how to ensure safety and enjoyment in large-scale cycling activities.
Every May, more than 30,000 riders will gather in New York City to join the five districts of New York City for cycling and leisure riding. Participants in this cycling event are diverse, with experienced riders, fans of weekend cycling, and novices who have just started cycling. Of course, there are also a family with children to participate. Such a diverse group of course has more uncontrollable factors and requires additional attention and maintenance-of course, we must also pay attention to etiquette and courtesy between each other. When you are ready to participate in large-scale events such as international naked cycling events, charity cycling, etc., you must manage your behavior during the cycling process. The following six tips can help you enjoy it in large-scale cycling activities freely and easily.
【Be prepared】
Usually in this kind of large-scale cycling activities, you can easily get close to others, and you can even smell the scent of chain oil from the riders around you. And such a short distance is very easy to cause danger, even if you ride very slowly. The most frequent collision accidents come from those uncomfortable crowd-intensive phobias or accidental collisions by others. At this time, some people who are hit may overreact.
Therefore, participating in such large-scale events Before, you’d better try to ride with your friends or training partners more, so that you can get used to the environment of cycling with a group of people. You will be more confident and less likely to be hit during activities.
【This is not a game】
Note that riding is not a competition, not for ranking. If you want to ride faster, make sure that you are at the forefront at the starting point, and the speed should be faster at the beginning. If you ask for quickness, but others are slow, it is easy to cause accidents. There are many people who try to push others forward at their own speed, and then to test their level of exercise, but others may just want to ride leisurely and see the scenery along the way in Greater New York. So patience is very important, and you have to remember that maybe when you vowed to pursue speed, the person next to you might just be the first time to participate in such a large-scale event.
【Always pay attention】
In the first few miles, the brigade rides will not move too far apart, so there is no gap between the riders. So put your hands on the brakes and be ready at all times. This can help you react in time when you want to slow down. If you encounter vehicles and pedestrians close to you, or small fragments on the road, or other obstacles that are not difficult to observe because of the behavior of large groups of people, you must always be vigilant. Raise your head and look at all directions, and concentrate.
【Pay attention to the rest area】
Pay special attention when approaching the rest area. Under normal circumstances, when you see a rest area, cyclists will swarm up. They are usually distracted because
they have to free up one hand and hurriedly stuff food into their pockets. At this time, inexperienced cyclists may suffer more. In this case, they don’t know how to control and move forward. .
【Remind in language】
If you ride among a group of people, the visibility is not so high. At this time, you may not be able to use gestures to remind others to pay attention to safety. Instead, you must help each other through voice prompts and tell people behind or around you to pay attention. Potential hazards: such as intersections, potholes, turns, traffic restrictions, or all other possible hazards. So when turning, changing lanes, or slowing down to prevent unnecessary trouble, be sure to tell others in advance.
【Don’t be too reckless, rush too fast】
This is definitely the golden rule, and it is also applicable in daily cycling life. When riding, occasionally slow down, communicate with people around you, say hi, or smile. I promise you will have a lot of fun.
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