Your Best Safety Tips!

[Jay51]

I am going to be making some YouTube videos on my best motorcycle riding safety tips that have kept me safe for almost 50 years.

Please share with me a few of your best safety tips that have kept you safe, wheels down and head up...

 

[Obo]

I'm a fan of covering the front brake with a finger or two.
Leave enough room in front of you when stopping to allow you an out if the person behind you can't stop in time.... goes along with make sure you know what's behind you when stopped.
When you see one deer run across the road there are often more that may be following.

There really are so many tips and tricks.

You have to know them, and then practice them to keep them like muscle memory.

 

[Bikeric]

1 The throttle works BOTH ways. 2 When approaching unknown bends, in slow out fast or in fast and out feet first. 3 There are old motorcyclists and bold motorcyclists - but there are no old, bold motorcyclists.

 

[Mellow]

Pay attention... that's it..

 

[dwalby]

expect to crash on every ride, because you just never know when it might happen. Even if you're extra careful, sometimes things happen that you just can't predict. If you aren't prepared to crash on every ride, don't ride.

 

[dduelin]

Stay out of blind spots. Imagine if you were in the cars around you and oncoming to you and position yourself as to be most visible to the threat posed by the lane-changer going your way and the left-turner coming at you.

 

[ToddC]

All the above, and ride like everyone is trying to kill you. Watch every thing.

 

[Willsmotorcycle]

I was watching a UK video of either a driver test or teacher, the instructor was miked up to the student. The Instructor used the phrase "use your life saver", brilliant, always look over your shoulder! Mirrors are great, looking over is better.

 

[sirepair]

Practice, practice, and practice! Find a parking lot that you can work on slow and medium speed maneuvers.

Practicing PANIC BRAKING, even when riding 2 up! You want your pillion to know just how hard you can brake when needed!

And it goes without saying: ATGATT!

 

[Mophead]

You go where you look.

 

[oude geit]

Stay as far away as possible
From the greatest danger.
Always know your escape route/path.
Always ride next to your escape route/path.

 

[Larry Fine]

Expect drivers to not see you.

 

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[Sadlsor]

@sirepair took mine.
Practice regularly.
Quick stops.
AND swerving.
But do not combine them both at the same time!!

 

[motornut]

I always tell others that if I was in a place where you can hit me....... I made a mistake. Although defecation does occur

 

[Erdoc48]

One thing I have always done (in the car as well), is, when approaching an intersection, I glance at the front wheel of the vehicle at 90 degrees to me (so when the other driver is to stop at a light or stop sign). If that wheel isn’t slowing down (rotation is not slowing), they’re likely to run to stop sign or red light, so I’m ready to act in that event. Never trust the other driver to do the right thing (many aren’t paying attention).

 

[Larry Fine]

One thing I have always done (in the car as well), is, when approaching an intersection, I glance at the front wheel of the vehicle at 90 degrees to me (so when the other driver is to stop at a light or stop sign). If that wheel isn’t slowing down (rotation is not slowing), they’re likely to run to stop sign or red light, so I’m ready to act in that event. Never trust the other driver to do the right thing (many aren’t paying attention).

Same here. Parked cars pulling out, too. It's easier to see rotation than linear motion.

 

[billbo]

At stop lights and stop signs, Never stop in the "grease strip" in the center of the lane. Also, I see this time and again. Riders at stop lights in addition to tail gating. They leave the bike in neutral which totally negates their escape rout capability!! Then the light changes they slam the bike in gear....till the next light.

 

[motornut]

One thing I hate is the really tinted windows, I cant see where they are looking

 

[Skunkape]

Watch your mirrors when stopped or stopping.

I don’t ride behind a truck or trailer with a sketchy load or anything with a bike on a bike rack for very long.

I try not to ride beside vehicles especially big trucks on the interstate. If I pass I get it done quickly.