BICYCLE SAFETY

1.  Always wear an approved bicycle safety helmet.  Protect your head from serious injury by wearing a helmet when riding.

2.  Stop and Check for traffic before you enter a street from a driveway, parking lot or sidewalk.

3.  Avoid Riding after dark or if the weather is bad.  All cyclists are at risk during the hours of darkness.

4.  Obey Traffic Signs, signals and pavement markings.  Obeying the law can keep you out of many hazardous driving situations.

5.  Drive on the right hand side of the street.  Move with the flow of traffic.

6.  Be extra careful turning left.  Vehicles approaching or following you don't expect you to go left and often don't see left-turning cyclists.

7.  Slow Down, when you approach intersections; stop, look and listen at stop signs.  Walk your bike across busy intersections and streets.

8.  Give cars and pedestrians the right-of-way.  It's an act of courtesy and it is safer, too.

9.  Avoid broken pavement, litter, loose gravel, mud, or leaves.  Any of these can cause you to lose control of your bike.