Looking Behind when Cycling in Traffic

Do not do it

Some riders beginners road constantly looking behind them, or fixate on their rearview mirrors, as if Interpol is expected to persecute them. This comes at the expense of what you're looking ahead, and usually derives from falsehood that General Motors owns the highway and a simple bicycle can only invade if it is immersed in the shoulder when a car passing approaches. A better idea: Buy an LED Blinker, and not sweat. A better tactic would be to spend all that effort in mounting on a predictable cars can move more easily. Is

Moreover, keep track of what is happening on the road. If you hear an engine, take a quick look back and see if it is true pimply pull in a Camero or 18-wheel traction an ICBM. Looking back also enables advance the driver knows you know it, and makes it more likely to treat you as a human being, you need a little breathing space, rather than some roads obstacle to graze freely. Looking backwards to keep other road users when passing is unsafe. If the road is windy or there is a hill, take a quick look to see if you need to reclaim their lane until the dashed line reappears. You can not take possession of his lane to avoid being squeezed off the road unless you know if something is behind you. In addition, it is relaxing to know that you have the whole stretch of road yourself.

Do not Turn!

When most riders crane their heads to look behind them, furrows his bike in the right direction to do. Some of the best cyclists in the region have caused pileups in walks leave because their bicycles to turn back when glance, and it's easy to drift right in traffic if you take a good hard look at something.

The solution is to drop his left hand from the bars if you look over his left shoulder. In general, just be aware of what will happen when they turn their heads, and make the hearing as quickly as possible. Practice

A great exercise is to have a friend walk behind you while you look back and try to count the number of fingers that remains. This is great for developing the capacity very quickly to say exactly what is behind you. Clocking practice speed of the cars behind you as quickly and accurately as possible, then look again to see if they were right. Learn to pay attention to detail, and use this knowledge once they have them.

Mirrors

While a mirror rierviow not save you look behind, is a great reduction in the frequency of what is essentially an interruption in his horse and aerodynamics. However, it seems that is no substitute for looking back, because every mirror has blind spots, bicycle and mirrors have terrible.

Riding in Training

When I have a friend sucking his rear wheel, looking back every ten seconds to make sure that they have not fallen he is a real pain in the butt. A better solution is to use a mirror, or simply to communicate. If your pace is too fast to be sustainable and your friend is falling, people should say so rather than spend the next few hundred meters Sprint in silence to return out of the wind (which is what they do if they do not keep your eyes wide open to ). Spanish » English Translate Suggest a better translation