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So the very 1st thing I've to consider was safety followed by the route, shower at the office, the timing, the traffic and many more. So below are some tips to bear in mind if you are a noobist cyclist like myself.
1. Always, I mean Always have a helmet! Thank me later because this might save your life.
2. Plan your route! Make sure you know where you are going next. Best if you could do a recce be it cycle on a day you are not working or at least drive along the road you are going to cycle.
3. Make full use of Park connectors. I prefer to cycle on the PCN more than anything else. Always make full use of them, it's safer for sure.
4. Keep to your "road". In Singapore we do not have cycling lane, some areas provides cycling paths and some doesn't. If it does, good for you else stay to where you are cycling. I've seen people who cycles on the road and goes up the walk way when the traffic light turns red. Seriously, that is very dangerous!
5. If you have to cycle on the road, I know we always say "share the road" but as cyclist we really shouldn't put all the responsibility on the drivers. As much as the drivers wish to watch out for you and not knock you door, you woobly and doing sudden move is not going to help. Some cyclist have this mentality that "they don't want to get it trouble, they wouldn't knock me so I can cycle anyway I want. " As much as that is true, there are times drivers really can't react in time.
6. Use a backpack if you need to bring a bag, avoid sling bags as it will tilt your CG and it's very dangerous while doing turns.
7. Don't fucking listen to music with your earphones while cycling can? It's damn dangerous!
8. Wear proper footwear! Slippers are rather dangerous IMO.
After all these things mentioned... I see people like this cycling with me and they could have been doing this for years.
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