You're riding home after dark. What should you wear to be seen?
Right! Wear retroreflective materials when riding at night. 📖 p. 62–63
BAC, impairment, fatigue, cold, heat and night riding.
You're riding home after dark. What should you wear to be seen?
Right! Wear retroreflective materials when riding at night. 📖 p. 62–63
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Alcohol is a major contributor to motorcycle crashes, especially fatal ones: studies show nearly 40 percent of riders killed in crashes had been drinking. Alcohol and other impairing drugs weaken your judgment, blur and slow your vision (even causing double vision), and slow your reaction time. p. 16
The safest choice is not to drink and ride: once you start drinking, judgment goes first and saying no gets harder. p. 17
Many prescription, over-the-counter and illegal drugs can affect your ability to ride. p. 17
The MSF tips in the Michigan manual say any alcohol in your body raises your chance of crashing about five times, and a BAC above 0.05% about forty-fold. p. 18
Alcohol weakens each step of the SEE strategy: it impairs vision (Search), judgment and decision-making (Evaluate), and coordination and reaction time (Execute). p. 18
In cold weather wear a windproof jacket and insulated layers you can remove as needed, topped with a windproof outer layer. Cold significantly lengthens your reaction time, so reduce speed and increase your following distance and the space to your sides. p. 62
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