[share-n-learn] Drive safe -two wheelers [Mam U pls dont miss it]
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Deepak Vishwakarma
May 6, 2010, 12:56:11 AM5/6/10
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Hi guyz,
How you doing...Two wheelers are most vulnerable thing on the road. A small mistake, of any one on road, can cause huge to the any bike rider. Let it be mistake of your own or some body else. A small mistake may not only cause dent on your small surface of bike (lets call two wheelers bike for time being) but may also cause dents on your body and that is some thing no body would like and things can even go worse than mere rashes. So be care full. Here I am discussing some of my observations on traffic behaviour and how can we avoid any unwanted event from happening. These are my personal view and please feel free to correct me or add to it.
These suggestions are for city riding or riding on any tour visit the link
http://talesonwheels.blogspot.com/sehttp://talesonwheels.blogspot.com/search/label/Have%20a%20safe%20ridearch/label/Have%20a%20safe%20ride
1. Be predictable:
First and most important rule which can not only help you but help other fellow riders is be predictable. It means others should be able to make out what are you doing are going to do on road. Don't catch any one with surprise because that may bring surprise to you too. No one wants any clash of vehicle so help others in helping you have safe ride home.
A. Give Signals -Always flash signals before taking any turn..better start flashing it a little early so that others can also be prepared with your intended turn. A signal doesn't give you right to take turn, so check your rear mirrors before changing lane or taking turn. In day time signal indicator may not be visible to people following you so add it with hand signal. Don't try to do any thing in haste, plan things in advance to make more time available to you.
B. Respect Signals- If some one in front of you is giving signal for taking turn or changing lane, respect it. If you honk at him be assured you get same treatment when your turn comes. Respect others but judge your condition to, if you cannot slow down because of some unavoidable reason then honk hard and make sure you are heard.
C. Sudden brake: Never stop at a sudden in the flowing traffic. Start flashing your left indicator, check your rear mirror, turn your head a bit to left and see no one is riding near parallel to you and when it's safe then go left, and then stop. Again if some unavoidable thing happens in front of you and you don't have option to move left and need to brake immediately ( car in front of you applied sudden brake, or some thing else happened), RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND FROM ELBOW ( as GODs and Deities do while blessing) to signal vehicle following you that you are going to apply sudden brake. and then you can brake. But safety cannot be guaranteed as it all depends on how prepared the vehicle following you is.
2. Give liberty to be unpredictable to others:
Be clear about what you want to do that will help every one on road but don't expect others to behave in same way, Judge others . Give them liberty to be unpredictable that will add to your safety. Cultivate habit of observing others' driving behaviour without disturbing your concentration. People are free to take turns without giving signals, can overtake from any side without indication, so be prepared. Some times people may forget to turn of side indicator ( happens with bikes) and you may thing he/she is going to take turn, so it's better to take care of these situations too rather than fighting with person after something happens.
3. Taking turn:
Don't rush to take turn, instead be prepared for it. Give proper indicator, position your bike accordingly on the road. If you want to take left don't do it from middle of right portion of road, try to keep left that will ease the job of taking turn and will not bother other on road. If you want to take right turn or you turn try to get to the right portion of traffic if divider is there otherwise get into the middle, the aim is to be in the right corner of the traffic you are following with right indication and when time comes and it's case then take right or U turn.
4. Signal Jump:
Never jump a signal, even if it is unattended by any police man. if it's red for you and you don't see any one at signal and let thing even to traffic then also it may be risky. Any one in any of the sides of cross of the signal, who might be seeing green for a long distance may be rushing to pass the signal before it turns red. So Never Jump on red, and don't fight for yellow, have seen people will not wait for their signal to get green rather they will start as it becomes yellow...that is to make you ready and not make you moving...In nights you might have noticed signals are turned off and all are made yellow and blinking, that means you can go but be careful as it's same for others too on other three sides of cross. And let other pass if you find anyone in such situation.
5 Honking:
Don't honk and irritate people at the signal, no one out for picnic at signal, and if some one is honking don't loose your concentration and just ignore such idiots. If traffic is moving and some one honks at you, don't panic or try to take any side, regardless of power of honk. Check your rear mirror and try to see who is honking and why is he honking at you before taking any action. and once your are sure understand the reason then take the action which is comfortable and safe for you. Generally we tend to move left when some one honks at us but this can be dangerous some times...be sure what you do on road because your safety depends on that.
6 Overtaking:
In city traffic overtaking is one of major incidents contribution to accidents. If not urgent then avoid over taking. It's always safe to be in lane and keeping your area of influence less. when you overtake or move here and there seeking side to over take you increase your area of vulnerability on road. If it's required to over take then give proper signal to people following (using indicator) and vehicle you intend to overtake (by honking in day time and flashing head lamp in night) and when all understands and agree upon your intend the do so. Quite cumbersome for daily and hectic traffic, isn't? but believe it's safe. I noted some times people will honk and without waiting for anything they will accelerate bike to over take the vehicle. that 's not safe. the vehicle you are overtaking may be planning to take right and the time you accelerate he can also flash indication and take right. then imagine what's gonna happen. And next and more dangerous thing I have noticed is that people will honk and will overtake the vehicle from left in city traffic. At first over taking vehicle from left is not correct and second your honk may make the vehicle to go left and you may land in trouble
7 Pocket roads
Take care while you are in main road crossing side roads. Some one may be rushing to main road from any of side road and hit you. better honk and slow down when you are about to cross side road. When you are on side road and going on main road, slow down while reaching the main road, see if some one is coming, give indicator for fellow rider in side road that you taking left or right to get onto main road. and when it's safe then move on main road. Here you need not to honk on vehicles moving on main road. No one will listen to you.
8 Auto
Autos are most agile things on the road, worse than cattle. So be care full when you see autos moving around you. Let it be any city, auto guys makes maximum use of their size and maneuverability of their vehicle so be care full. better keep distance from them. Never follow them.
9 Brakable distance
Learning to stop is more important than leaning to move. You should know your braking capacity on your bike. If you don't know then practice and check it in safe place, free parking place or may be on free roads (be extremely careful). And always maintain that distance from the vehicle moving just in front of you. If somehow that vehicle is stopping immediately then you should be able to stop your vehicle before hitting vehicle in front you, that distance is your braking distance. And try to maintain distance from vehicle following you. Try to be as safe as possible.
10 Judge others
It's tricky and takes time to get into habit but if you keep it in your mind you learn fast judging other without disturbing your concentration. Try to make it in your habit to glance on your rear mirror to see vehicles following you and people driving them. and People around you and confront of you too. The guy driving you can be seen trough his/her rear mirror. If you notice that some one is not being careful around you (may be taking on phone, showing rash driving, flashing indication and switching if off, moving zig-zag, etc) then try to escape that place safely. You can escape either by overtaking or slowing down what ever suits situation.
Nerve forget the golden rule, which works every where is NEVER PANIC. If you get panic they you won't be able to help yourself. And love your bike, I am sure the things you love you never hurt and try to care it. If you love you bike you let land it into any danger. And last and quite important is remember there are may people who love you and if you get hurt it will hurt you physically but will hurt those people in their heart.
PS: This article is to share my observation with all guyz and specially with one lady, the trouble maker for me. Hope she reads it till end. Pls correct me where ever you find some things can be changed. This will not only help me in improving but other guys too.
Ride well to ride for long :)
Regards,
Deepak
--
Deepak Kumar Vishwakarma
Scientist, DRDO
How you doing...Two wheelers are most vulnerable thing on the road. A small mistake, of any one on road, can cause huge to the any bike rider. Let it be mistake of your own or some body else. A small mistake may not only cause dent on your small surface of bike (lets call two wheelers bike for time being) but may also cause dents on your body and that is some thing no body would like and things can even go worse than mere rashes. So be care full. Here I am discussing some of my observations on traffic behaviour and how can we avoid any unwanted event from happening. These are my personal view and please feel free to correct me or add to it.
These suggestions are for city riding or riding on any tour visit the link
http://talesonwheels.blogspot.com/sehttp://talesonwheels.blogspot.com/search/label/Have%20a%20safe%20ridearch/label/Have%20a%20safe%20ride
1. Be predictable:
First and most important rule which can not only help you but help other fellow riders is be predictable. It means others should be able to make out what are you doing are going to do on road. Don't catch any one with surprise because that may bring surprise to you too. No one wants any clash of vehicle so help others in helping you have safe ride home.
A. Give Signals -Always flash signals before taking any turn..better start flashing it a little early so that others can also be prepared with your intended turn. A signal doesn't give you right to take turn, so check your rear mirrors before changing lane or taking turn. In day time signal indicator may not be visible to people following you so add it with hand signal. Don't try to do any thing in haste, plan things in advance to make more time available to you.
B. Respect Signals- If some one in front of you is giving signal for taking turn or changing lane, respect it. If you honk at him be assured you get same treatment when your turn comes. Respect others but judge your condition to, if you cannot slow down because of some unavoidable reason then honk hard and make sure you are heard.
C. Sudden brake: Never stop at a sudden in the flowing traffic. Start flashing your left indicator, check your rear mirror, turn your head a bit to left and see no one is riding near parallel to you and when it's safe then go left, and then stop. Again if some unavoidable thing happens in front of you and you don't have option to move left and need to brake immediately ( car in front of you applied sudden brake, or some thing else happened), RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND FROM ELBOW ( as GODs and Deities do while blessing) to signal vehicle following you that you are going to apply sudden brake. and then you can brake. But safety cannot be guaranteed as it all depends on how prepared the vehicle following you is.
2. Give liberty to be unpredictable to others:
Be clear about what you want to do that will help every one on road but don't expect others to behave in same way, Judge others . Give them liberty to be unpredictable that will add to your safety. Cultivate habit of observing others' driving behaviour without disturbing your concentration. People are free to take turns without giving signals, can overtake from any side without indication, so be prepared. Some times people may forget to turn of side indicator ( happens with bikes) and you may thing he/she is going to take turn, so it's better to take care of these situations too rather than fighting with person after something happens.
3. Taking turn:
Don't rush to take turn, instead be prepared for it. Give proper indicator, position your bike accordingly on the road. If you want to take left don't do it from middle of right portion of road, try to keep left that will ease the job of taking turn and will not bother other on road. If you want to take right turn or you turn try to get to the right portion of traffic if divider is there otherwise get into the middle, the aim is to be in the right corner of the traffic you are following with right indication and when time comes and it's case then take right or U turn.
4. Signal Jump:
Never jump a signal, even if it is unattended by any police man. if it's red for you and you don't see any one at signal and let thing even to traffic then also it may be risky. Any one in any of the sides of cross of the signal, who might be seeing green for a long distance may be rushing to pass the signal before it turns red. So Never Jump on red, and don't fight for yellow, have seen people will not wait for their signal to get green rather they will start as it becomes yellow...that is to make you ready and not make you moving...In nights you might have noticed signals are turned off and all are made yellow and blinking, that means you can go but be careful as it's same for others too on other three sides of cross. And let other pass if you find anyone in such situation.
5 Honking:
Don't honk and irritate people at the signal, no one out for picnic at signal, and if some one is honking don't loose your concentration and just ignore such idiots. If traffic is moving and some one honks at you, don't panic or try to take any side, regardless of power of honk. Check your rear mirror and try to see who is honking and why is he honking at you before taking any action. and once your are sure understand the reason then take the action which is comfortable and safe for you. Generally we tend to move left when some one honks at us but this can be dangerous some times...be sure what you do on road because your safety depends on that.
6 Overtaking:
In city traffic overtaking is one of major incidents contribution to accidents. If not urgent then avoid over taking. It's always safe to be in lane and keeping your area of influence less. when you overtake or move here and there seeking side to over take you increase your area of vulnerability on road. If it's required to over take then give proper signal to people following (using indicator) and vehicle you intend to overtake (by honking in day time and flashing head lamp in night) and when all understands and agree upon your intend the do so. Quite cumbersome for daily and hectic traffic, isn't? but believe it's safe. I noted some times people will honk and without waiting for anything they will accelerate bike to over take the vehicle. that 's not safe. the vehicle you are overtaking may be planning to take right and the time you accelerate he can also flash indication and take right. then imagine what's gonna happen. And next and more dangerous thing I have noticed is that people will honk and will overtake the vehicle from left in city traffic. At first over taking vehicle from left is not correct and second your honk may make the vehicle to go left and you may land in trouble
7 Pocket roads
Take care while you are in main road crossing side roads. Some one may be rushing to main road from any of side road and hit you. better honk and slow down when you are about to cross side road. When you are on side road and going on main road, slow down while reaching the main road, see if some one is coming, give indicator for fellow rider in side road that you taking left or right to get onto main road. and when it's safe then move on main road. Here you need not to honk on vehicles moving on main road. No one will listen to you.
8 Auto
Autos are most agile things on the road, worse than cattle. So be care full when you see autos moving around you. Let it be any city, auto guys makes maximum use of their size and maneuverability of their vehicle so be care full. better keep distance from them. Never follow them.
9 Brakable distance
Learning to stop is more important than leaning to move. You should know your braking capacity on your bike. If you don't know then practice and check it in safe place, free parking place or may be on free roads (be extremely careful). And always maintain that distance from the vehicle moving just in front of you. If somehow that vehicle is stopping immediately then you should be able to stop your vehicle before hitting vehicle in front you, that distance is your braking distance. And try to maintain distance from vehicle following you. Try to be as safe as possible.
10 Judge others
It's tricky and takes time to get into habit but if you keep it in your mind you learn fast judging other without disturbing your concentration. Try to make it in your habit to glance on your rear mirror to see vehicles following you and people driving them. and People around you and confront of you too. The guy driving you can be seen trough his/her rear mirror. If you notice that some one is not being careful around you (may be taking on phone, showing rash driving, flashing indication and switching if off, moving zig-zag, etc) then try to escape that place safely. You can escape either by overtaking or slowing down what ever suits situation.
Nerve forget the golden rule, which works every where is NEVER PANIC. If you get panic they you won't be able to help yourself. And love your bike, I am sure the things you love you never hurt and try to care it. If you love you bike you let land it into any danger. And last and quite important is remember there are may people who love you and if you get hurt it will hurt you physically but will hurt those people in their heart.
PS: This article is to share my observation with all guyz and specially with one lady, the trouble maker for me. Hope she reads it till end. Pls correct me where ever you find some things can be changed. This will not only help me in improving but other guys too.
Ride well to ride for long :)
Regards,
Deepak
--
Deepak Kumar Vishwakarma
Scientist, DRDO
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Dr Gaur SJ
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Dr Gaur SJ
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