Tips for safer cycling

Nextbike suggest you tips for safer cycling:

• Get a light. If you're riding at night, you absolutely should use a light.

• Wear a reflective vest. High quality reflective vest makes you a lot more visible even in the day time, not just at night.

•Choose wide streets. Ride on streets whose outside lane is so wide that it can easily fit a car and a bike side by side.

• Don't stop in the blind spot. Simply stop behind a car, instead of to the right of it. This makes you very visible to traffic on all sides.

• Don't ride against traffic. Ride with traffic, in the same direction. Studies showed that riding the wrong way was three times as dangerous as riding the right way, and for kids, the risk is seven times greater.

• Don’t get too close to parked cars – beware of car doors opening suddenly.

• Never ride a bike when under the influence of alcohol or drugs.