Decided to start a thread to help new riders prevent crashing. Anyone else feel free to add points.
1. Buy a bike you can handle. If you're a speed demon in general you should start on a lower cc bike as you can push it to it's limit. People that tend to speed in general will always want to push their vehicle to its limit, if you start on a litre bike as your first bike, that limit is 300+km/hr. Might not be the smartest idea for a new rider. Recommended is a 125/250/300/500 would be good low cc bikes, all of these bikes do sub 200km/hr, still fast enough to break speed limits and get your first ticket on a bike, so don't complain it's too slow.
2. Learn to handle your bike to the fullest before upgrading to something bigger. Just because you can drive a straight line doesn't make you an expert. Learn to take corners with your knee dragging before moving up to a higher cc bike.
3. All gear is very important, buy what you can afford, don't skip out on pants either, you can buy jean kevlar pants as cheap at $100. Gear will not make you invincible however, it is there for abrasion resistance. In order of Importance: Helmet, Gloves, Boots, Jacket, then Pants.
4. Wear colourful and reflective gear. Wearing all black gear may look cool, but often times too many drivers claim they didn't see the bike.
5. Always slow down in an intersection. You never know who is going to pop out of your blind spot. Sometimes cars are parked on the side of the road making it impossible for the car on the right from even seeing you, let alone you seeing them.
6. Yellow lights means stop. If you see the light turn yellow and a car is about to make a left turn, let the car go even if you have the right of way.
7. You never have the right of way, always give it to cars unless they wave you over to go ahead. Remember if you aren't at fault, you pay with your life. Dead man can't testify in court.
8. Never stunt in public roads. Too many people do it end up dead, if you doing a wheeling in an intersection and some driver doesn't see you and make a left turn, you're dead. OTR President died that way and he was a pro.
Feel free to add any additional points.
1. Buy a bike you can handle. If you're a speed demon in general you should start on a lower cc bike as you can push it to it's limit. People that tend to speed in general will always want to push their vehicle to its limit, if you start on a litre bike as your first bike, that limit is 300+km/hr. Might not be the smartest idea for a new rider. Recommended is a 125/250/300/500 would be good low cc bikes, all of these bikes do sub 200km/hr, still fast enough to break speed limits and get your first ticket on a bike, so don't complain it's too slow.
2. Learn to handle your bike to the fullest before upgrading to something bigger. Just because you can drive a straight line doesn't make you an expert. Learn to take corners with your knee dragging before moving up to a higher cc bike.
3. All gear is very important, buy what you can afford, don't skip out on pants either, you can buy jean kevlar pants as cheap at $100. Gear will not make you invincible however, it is there for abrasion resistance. In order of Importance: Helmet, Gloves, Boots, Jacket, then Pants.
4. Wear colourful and reflective gear. Wearing all black gear may look cool, but often times too many drivers claim they didn't see the bike.
5. Always slow down in an intersection. You never know who is going to pop out of your blind spot. Sometimes cars are parked on the side of the road making it impossible for the car on the right from even seeing you, let alone you seeing them.
6. Yellow lights means stop. If you see the light turn yellow and a car is about to make a left turn, let the car go even if you have the right of way.
7. You never have the right of way, always give it to cars unless they wave you over to go ahead. Remember if you aren't at fault, you pay with your life. Dead man can't testify in court.
8. Never stunt in public roads. Too many people do it end up dead, if you doing a wheeling in an intersection and some driver doesn't see you and make a left turn, you're dead. OTR President died that way and he was a pro.
Feel free to add any additional points.
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