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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Riding Care (Post 1) - Visibility on Turns

Sharing here some lessons learned in my riding experiences till date.

In general overtaking on turns is always risky. But it is more risky in some scenarios.

See following two examples, in first case the rider has much lesser visibility than in second case.

Conventions in these images -
Yellow part of visibility area is the area which bike rider can see
Red part of visibility area is the restricted vision - which the biker can not see.

On Indian roads (left hand drive) totally avoid overtaking on left turns as you hardly have any visibility of vehicle coming from opposite side

On Indian roads (left hand drive) it is relatively safe overtaking on right turns as you have good visibility of vehicle coming from opposite side


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