I like road cycling
06-13-07, 11:05 AM
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I like road cycling
So, I bought my bike yesterday, along with all the essentials and some gloves and a helmet. I intend to use my bike for commuting to work and campus. As I drove yesterday and today I realized I don't really know how to drive the bike under the laws and how to take care of the bike. So I have a few questions about my road bike.
1. What are the rules for riding a bike? I do know that you follow the same rules for driving. Stop at stop signs and lights, stay on the right side of the road and pass on the left. How do you let other people know which way you are going? Is it raise your right hand for left, and point it right for right? What other rules are there?
2. What's the proper way to keep a bike cleaned and well oiled? I can tell that I will need to keep my chain and the gears and what not cleaned. What is the proper way to clean them and with what chemicals? Also, Is cleaning the frame as simple as washing a car?
Thanks in advance guys.
1. What are the rules for riding a bike? I do know that you follow the same rules for driving. Stop at stop signs and lights, stay on the right side of the road and pass on the left. How do you let other people know which way you are going? Is it raise your right hand for left, and point it right for right? What other rules are there?
2. What's the proper way to keep a bike cleaned and well oiled? I can tell that I will need to keep my chain and the gears and what not cleaned. What is the proper way to clean them and with what chemicals? Also, Is cleaning the frame as simple as washing a car?
Thanks in advance guys.
06-13-07, 11:30 AM
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you're not going to get all your answers from a few posts. Go to a website or check out a general book on bike maintenance, bike safety, bike handling, etc.
Glad you're having fun.
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06-13-07, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by jbweldon04
So, I bought my bike yesterday, along with all the essentials and some gloves and a helmet. I intend to use my bike for commuting to work and campus. As I drove yesterday and today I realized I don't really know how to drive the bike under the laws and how to take care of the bike. So I have a few questions about my road bike.
1. What are the rules for riding a bike? I do know that you follow the same rules for driving. Stop at stop signs and lights, stay on the right side of the road and pass on the left. How do you let other people know which way you are going? Is it raise your right hand for left, and point it right for right? What other rules are there?
2. What's the proper way to keep a bike cleaned and well oiled? I can tell that I will need to keep my chain and the gears and what not cleaned. What is the proper way to clean them and with what chemicals? Also, Is cleaning the frame as simple as washing a car?
Thanks in advance guys.
1. What are the rules for riding a bike? I do know that you follow the same rules for driving. Stop at stop signs and lights, stay on the right side of the road and pass on the left. How do you let other people know which way you are going? Is it raise your right hand for left, and point it right for right? What other rules are there?
2. What's the proper way to keep a bike cleaned and well oiled? I can tell that I will need to keep my chain and the gears and what not cleaned. What is the proper way to clean them and with what chemicals? Also, Is cleaning the frame as simple as washing a car?
Thanks in advance guys.
1. When riding on the road, just don't do anything stupid to risk injury to yourself or anyone else. As for the PC answer about traffic signs/signal, etc... you should follow them as if you were a car, because you're a vehicle on the road just the same. Do I do this? Not always. Should you? Yes
2. Hand signals.. I point in the direction I'm going to be turning. Motorists don't know the hand up/down/left right stuff... even if it was in the drivers ed course and licensing test. If I'm in the shoulder, I also point out to the lane so any cars behind me know I'm moving into the lane. Look before you make any moves around cars.
3. Cleaning: ^^ sheldon brown's site and:
https://www.parktool.com/repair
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- Google™ is your friend... do a search for your state's bicycling laws... that way, you'll know whether or not your equipment is legal and how you *should* be treated on the road (it'll be s****y regardless)...
- for lively viewpoints, check out the Vehicular Cycling forum here on BF:
https://www.bikeforums.net/vehicular-cycling-vc/
- good luck, and stay safe!
- for lively viewpoints, check out the Vehicular Cycling forum here on BF:
https://www.bikeforums.net/vehicular-cycling-vc/
- good luck, and stay safe!
