Motorcycle Safety

If you want a motorcycle then motorcycle safety should be on top your agenda.

Owning and riding a motorcycle is not all about having fun and looking good. Before you can begin to be unleashed on the general public, you owe yourself the responsibility to learn and understand the rules of motorcycle safety.

Especially the physical aspects of handling the motor cycle properly.

Staying Upright
The first rule of motorcycle safety is knowing that to ride a bicycle requires balance. A motorcycle is an inanimate object. Unless it is supported when static, it will fall down.

When it is being driven, it will stay upright. What makes this possible?

When a motorcycle is being driven in a forward direction, the driver can control the center of gravity of the bike through the use of friction. Friction of bikes impetus against the surface of the road or path on which it is being driven keeps the bike upright.

Moving forward
Keeping a motorcycle moving in straight line at a controlled speed has now been ascertained as the principal reason why motorcycles stay upright and hence is the next lesson in proper motorcycle safety.

By achieving and maintaining this effect, the bike should always stay upright and never fall down. In an ideal world, this sounds perfectly feasible. However we do not live in an ideal World, and motorcycles and their riders even more so.

They have to cope with a series of obstacles and situations, which will cause their bike to change direction or lose impetus.

Under these circumstances the driver may lose control of the motorbike, and it may even fall over.

A painful experience for the driver as well as the motor cycle.

An experience motorcyclist who appreciates the rules of motorcycle safety will instinctively know how to cope with most situations, and which of the cycle’s devices they will be able to use to cope with most of them.

There are some circumstances that they may not be able to handle, simply because the circumstances are out of their control. All in all keeping the bike under control and moving it in a forward direction to where you want to go are the “bread and butter” of riding a motor cycle.

Slowing Down
Being able to brake and stop the bike is also something that is fairly essential when observing motorcycle safety regulations. They bike’s braking action is largely controlled by the bike’s front brake lever, which is attached to the grip of the right handle grip.

Friction plays as large a part in stopping a motor bike as moving it forward. It goes without saying that, breaking erratically can cause a loss of control and all the consequences that entails. There is a form of foot brake for the rear wheel, which is basically an auxiliary break.

Improper use of the brake does not have to be catastrophic, and is generally used in conjunction with the front wheel brake. Rear motorcycle brakes are usually disc type. Coming in singles or pairs the squeeze a metal disc in the wheel’s that assists in slowing the bike to a stop.

Turning off
Switching a motor bike’s engine on and off is not one of the most life threatening aspects of operating a motor bike and may not seem important as far as motorcycle safety is concerned, but it does have its functions.

Having said that, while it is imperative to be able to switch on your motor cycles’ engine before you set of on a journey, having reached your destination safely, it is always nice to know how to switch off your motor bike’s engine.


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