- If you enjoy your independence when you travel or just want to try something different on your next vacation, consider a motorcycle tour.
- Rider's, a leading motorcycle rental company, is now paving the way for a revolution in the way enthusiasts travel.
- Rider's self-drive tours are beginning to generate a buzz within the industry as a result of their dramatic growth since conception.
- Rider does all the planning and provides all the gear, leaving travelers the freedom to marvel at the scenery and experience the trill of adventure on the road alone or with the company of their own friends and family. More than 100 self-drive tours are available out of every Rider location.
- Companies like Rider are springing up everywhere and are more than just motorcycle rental or tour organizations.
- They are complete travel and concierge service companies tailored for the motorcycle market.
- Rider offers the personal service of an in-house trip planner, with customized itineraries focusing on the most majestic motorcycle touring routes.
- Rider’s self-drive tour customers rent a late-model motorcycle, stay at first-rate accommodations and receive a personalized road book designed with everything a rider would need, including mapped routing, restaurant suggestions and interesting stops along the way.
- Round-the-clock roadside assistance and motorcycle concierge services come standard with an Rider rental, and customers can choose to have a GPS navigation system installed with their personal trip routing for ease of travel. “Being able to leave a blustery winter in Omaha, go to Southern California and rent a motorcycle for a ride to Cabo is absolutely wonderful,” said Joe Ricketts, chairman and founder of Ameritrade.
- Rider provides truly great service.” Motorcycle travel will never be the same again thanks to companies like Rider, who make amazing, hassle-free vacations their priority.
- There are different styles and designs of helmets available in motorcycle stores these days. Colors range from classic solid colors to domineering neon and luminous colors to promote conspicuity.
- There are also replicas that look like ‘super bike champ wear’. Street motorcycle accessories like helmet are matters of personal taste. In that case, aesthetic side is often chosen over anything else.
- Anyhow, this has contributed why safety is most of the time overlooked. Whatever the case may be rider’s safety must be the topmost priority. In a study conducted by the NHTSA, DOT National Highway Traffic Safety US Department of Transportation, they have subjected 50 motorcyclists, of varying age and riding experience to a test.
- They were made to ride along a prescribed test route. Then, they were asked to periodically change lanes and their head to check traffic in the adjacent lane. Afterwards, they were made to change lane in their normal manner.
- The riders have driven the route three times, full and partial helmet on, and on the third time, without wearing a helmet. The ability to hear surrounding traffic was also altered systematically.
- The study found out that helmets are not hindrance to motorcyclist’s ability to hear and observe surrounding traffic.
- In connection with the hearing tests, no significant difference was found in rider’s ability to hear traffic, either between helmet types or between helmet and no helmet. Hearing ability, on the other hand, was significantly affected by vehicle speed due to increased wind noise. However, for any given speed, helmets did not diminish nor enhance hearing.
- In connection with the vision tests, it showed that the minimal amount of the lateral vision (field of view) that is sacrificed by wearing a helmet can be made up by turning the head a little further. Further, the study showed that 19 of the 23 riders who were given the vision tests compensated for helmet use by turning their head a little further before changing lanes.
- Overall, any negative effect of helmets on rider vision appears to be very minor, especially in comparison to the protection offered by helmets should a crash occur.
- Arai, Bell, Icon, AGV, Nolan, Thor, Erex, are some of the trusted motorcycle helmet manufacturers in the world. The helmets they are releasing are tested and approved by Snell and DOT.
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