And that my dear friends, Madrid is a fucking hell. other cities are more friendly to drive a motorcycle, especially on the English coast, but in Madrid it has no name. Here we live 5 million souls who enter each day to the job.
23 years I've been riding a motorcycle Madrid. nearly quarter million miles on a bike, of which half have been in the city .. That if M-40 pa above, if M-30 pa below. 95% of the days of my life I've gone to currar motorcycle. The years I was in college I also passed up and down the entrance of the freeway's Valencia, the N-III, with a derby gpr 75. What has happened since then.
And riding this bike and within a city is a very high risk sport, I would say is more like a war. I've said before on the blog and I like to put the faux sniper at Stalingrad. Here, as in Stalingrad can not commit a single error. If you raise your head over the account in the trench and the enemy sniper you will most likely see you pop the cap of the sexes with one shot.
may be that when the shooter enemy watched you're under cover, you may change your position and you put the open and the enemy sees you, but those two situations as they occur while you are going to hit a shot in the Seseras vain you send to another neighborhood.
On bike is the same. You might like to drive attached to the front and never brake hard, you may be cautious and keep a safe distance and save yourself the slowdown Fool's balls in front, but as you go Pegaditas the front brake hard and that you'll leave the balls embedded in her windshield.
So here are a few tips to survive this war that is circular in town with your bike.
1 º Always respect the safety distance. It is the most important advice I can give you. Many of the hosts that we are to reach. Emilio de Villota having a driving program in the 80 in the TVE was a way to measure it. If you're behind another car fijate when passing through a reference, a traffic sign, a mark on the floor, one line of a lane, then say the word mentally ONE HUNDRED AND TWO HUNDRED. If you've come to the reference you made before the end of the percentof say is that you are too close. Maintaining a long distance
the front has many advantages. You have a lot more time to brake or dodge if unexpected. allows you to get more relaxed. You have more visual field, behind a bus / truck / van did not see anything happening in front. If you see better also see potential loopholes and and better places to overtake what you have ahead. Insist that it is the best advice I can give, you see quickly if you want, but always keep safety distance to the front.
How do you think that will catch your tire however superneumático be in the vent on the picture below?
3 º Nobody ever sees you, or the car in front looking in the mirror, or the car behind you see the backlight, or the one that opens the door to get out of a taxi has looked . Do not assume that open the door of a car, hit a 2 meters are not going to happen to anyone. I really think car drivers think that what's in front, back and sides are other cars, not a lizard doing the bike and appearing at the corners. In the dead of the mirrors is difficult to completely hide another car. The viewing angle is always displayed a lighthouse or a corner that causes us to focus more. But the bikes if we went perfectly. A slightly Borjamari look in the rearview mirror to see if you see something, just a split second and if you do not see anyone give the swerve. At the bottom it does with malice, you have not seen anythin in the mirror.
How long look at your per-view mirrors.? Do you look, scrutinize and analyze it all you got behind you so that your brain knows that behind you at each site? or just look at a second and if you do not see in the picture na, everything OK?
A clear example of what happens on the roadside in the jam. And even in the unlikely event who would look, who is going to imagine that the distance that light at the side you see in your mirror is a bike that will throw up in less than 3 seconds.
4 º not circulate between the right lane and sidewalk. The cars put the emergency lights flashing and give or swerve to stand in two rows, taxis come to the curb to pick up customers, pedestrians jump the curb to cross and then watch, pedestrians have been calculated wrong in his lane and come across in yours as hopping., do you think I named all of these occurred to them to look to see whether he was a motorcycle?.
5 º not circulate in the center of the lane, provided tilted, and can be left. in case of sudden braking easier simpre Sarah you avoid the car in front if it is so gilipuertas not follow my advice above.
6 º Avoid like the plague the blind spot mirrors for cars. Do not move more than 3 seconds in the blind spot of another vehicle. It is difficult being seen to be well placed (if not impossible) to expect to become aware of your presence in your corner metidito being dead. Remember that a car at the end of the exercise fully their right granted by the logic of turning traffic where he pleases if it does not bother anyone. The technique of looking through the rearview mirror for cars LEB I see your eyes is very useful, but do not agilipolles with mirrors to see if you go with what you have estanpar ahead.
7 º If you're going to pass by a narrow place between cars have to get the driver of the vehicle where you're going to go be aware that you are behind and you're going to advance, but well thought out you going to put as long, to sprinting or pitarle, because whatever you do will not realize that you are there behind him.
8 º Madrid whistle whistle with another car does not mean as in the rest of the cities "I Friend, you notice that I'm here to see me. "
here means" bastard, YOU'VE MADE A BAD THING that has bothered me, BE, THAT IS, AND THAT I HAVE THE RIGHT, AND ME CAGO EN TUS PUTOS DEAD so much more effective and brought it to a sprint in a vacuum. This will put the driver in his mirrors to find the source of the noise and being aware of your presence, and oddly enough, it sounds infinitely more polite . There is evidence that the bikes they make more noise are the safest.
9 º In the jam try looking through the windows of the car that precedes you. and know that not only happening in front of the car, You can also see if the drive is over 80 years (bad) or less than 20 (worst) over if you see wearing a L uence on their side as gunpowder. Try not to drive behind buses or vans, behind them is not shit.
10 º No hurry amber discs that are already almost red. That the rock is always too fast. Anyway it seems that in Madrid amber light means speed up more. That which a driver who is at the traffic light pole wants to go out to Fernando Alonso being poorly positioned to shift the turning cager who gets caught at the other end, you'll see how it will end Your rush of traffic lights in amber.
11 º Never assume anything. That you will look like a sprint with a perfect pass that amber traffic light before it turns red does not mean that the old horses in front of two seems possible. I'll tell you like a joke. The curtain rises
The old disk is red and starts to brake, you think - joe, that pain in the ass of old, if that give you a stamp on the accelerator we two - "Lower the curtain
It raises the curtain
The previous point Fernando Alonso vigala impatiently as the traffic light turns red and accelerate its SEAT LEON ambrague release the shot out from the left lane to turn into a cross street on the right. Must pass before turning on all cars, total, if it does not bother anyone fast
the curtain is lowered the curtain rises
is going to shit is old, with my super GSXR I lean a bit and open it the throttle, certainly the traffic lights before they even turn red, I'm not going to be needed and speed up the disk.
Lower the curtain. It raises the curtain
On fernando alonso looks like the two horses of the old starts to slow down and think, host, since there will be some pedestrian green disc and I have not seen, goes to the traffic in this area and . I'll steal a few seconds lap to be shit Bitch ...
the curtain is lowered.
What is the name the movie?
12 º Sal the first traffic lights out like a grand prix, you come to the clear zone between cars and have no one around, where you are more secure. Also if you do not have cars to the side when you go around town you see more from the sidewalk and molas more, hehe.
13 º never ahead in an intersection. Anyone can turn to that intersection from the far lane and pass over. Do not expect anyone to stand in the right lane to turn, ie right lane to rotate the deviation to the right. The fault is not yours, do not maliciously. Many are lost for indications in the magnificent signs point to our streets .. I do not know why but whenever I have to go to Leganes and then leave and go home the fifth place in hell.
14 º If a lane is jammed and the next is free, do not go to any sacrifice for freedom, always some idiot realizes what an asshole that is for choosing the jammed and not the free and takes a sharp turn to exit just when you spend with him (true story). Arrange your speed on what moves to your side. If you're among lanes of cars stopped in the eternal morning jam the m-30 north do not go over 60 km per hour. Put second and go to tip of gas. The bakalaeros at full speed on their scooters ultrasportive to pass if they want. You lie to one side when you see a gap between cars and pass you.
15 º motorcycle or in a cup, or more than two beers, or a joint, or one line, or anything else. Balance is critical to drive a bike and do not say na in a city. Keep it all the time do not get the bike and you'll see everything you accumulated padazo you stick party.
16 º And even if you are more sober than a fish in the sea, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, especially at dawn are bad times to go on a bike. That the rock turns me blind spliced \u200b\u200blost. If you go out partying the night just flirting, fucking saying that the lower the fart. I've never tried, I always come home by taxi.
17 º the front of a car has a cone of danger as a combat aircraft. and now that we put military similes with one of the safety distance . The measure of this is as a struggle of war fighters and submarines. Let me explain to me.
fighter F-18, Eurofighter, mig, etc ... call ahead cone of fire, and is behind a cone called vulnerability. In a fight between two fighter air the game is to keep your cone of fire cone pointing to the vulnerability of your opponent, the fighter bomber attacked stands behind the game to shoot a missile activates its radar to determine the target and shoots the misilazo. But if the game makes an evasive maneuver caught and get put it back, then it is he who will be in favorable position to fire position.
Go on a motorcycle with a car behind is like playing the same game. In case of war (on a motorcycle in a city it is) all vehicles have a cone of fire in front. There is an arc of 120 degrees in front of a car to be avoided at all costs. This cone is where you can move a car immediately. It is quite clear that you can not move laterally, and to go running back has to stop first, but can accelerate forward with the wheels straight and rotated them. So the fire zone of a car is a cone. And fall within the cone of fire of a car is dangerous because it could throw a missile when you least expect it.
Whenever you approach a car always thinks in its cone of fire. If the car you still take you a while to see that you may consider an ally, but as I suddenly goals in its cone of fire and sound scary, fucked up date for the misilazo is safe.
So you know, never mess in front or sides of a car without insurance avert that identifies you as a friend (although know from my earlier point that was ever going to notice you when you come before him, date and crushed).
In some examples, I lose my pot, I know, but forgive it for your sake.
18 º never manage to impress a ligartela aunt and fear by passing up your bike. Dala slowly around
19 º mangao not go where you do not see. always have the ability to reduce speed to zero km / h in the space you see with your eyes. If you go to all milk and there is a street car for a traffic light you will end up coming through the back window of the last of the row.
20 º Be careful in traffic jams on the motorways to travel along the shoulder, first because they are full of shit, and second because if a fart have to stop for some reason will not think to look in the mirror to make sure who is on the hard shoulder ; not expect anyone to come by. And less like a bullet. It is very likely that if you brake suddenly you go to the ground for loss of adhesions.
21 º Put your fucking helmet, you can you be paralyzed but still alive you can still see the asses of the ladies in the spring, and for that alone deserves to be alive. FLTA that does not carry leather monkey guards go for the bread but at least wear a helmet and motorcycle riding gloves. The ski is not working, the bike either. If you kiss the ground even at 15 km / h as you really let his hands.
So from now to peel an orange you have to use the tail and around muñones.Date page boutique racing with the best quality and market price of salt to ride a bike minimally equipped with bike team. Except http://www.racingboutique.com
to go to the opera to millions of smoking jacket and jacket models that combine perfectly with your outfit.
A and incidentally, attempts to go with boots, whether or not ride a motorcycle, but something that fits well to the foot. It is proven that motorcycle accidents, even at low speed, tend to lose the shoes or sneakers. Many bikers have just given the asphalt barefoot romps.
So from now on to play football you also have to use the tail, heh heh, not what colleagues say, juas juas.
22 º never Do not trust the indicators. The cars are straight when they have jobs and spin without them. In Madrid do not need them. Overall, though no one will put them do not fucking case.
Scrutinize 23 º soil color, moisture, changes in asphalt, potholes ,.... The streets of Madrid seems a motocross field. If you take a good speed bump to you from an alloy wheel, which are designed to be very light and therefore very flexible, but not to spend all one bujero host a crater the size of a howitzer. Ditto for tires reads when uploading curbs.
24 º Be careful when riding on the sidewalk to park because the pedestrians go by it will be aware that they have the right of priority and will tempt you to violate the right to build a nice discussion where you will be called uncivil, terrorist pedophile. I know they just want to punch someone who does not deviate a foot to let go, but on the sidewalk, if you do not want to argue, stand, wait till you pass the idiot's balls and then pass your turn.
25 º Learn to handle the bike at low speed without setting foot on the floor. go to a road without traffic on a polygon and circle at first staggered, giving circles. If you keep the weight on the foot the bike becomes much more nimble at low speed. why the trial bike designed to make maravarismos no saddle. It's tiring but maintain separate one millimeter ass seat, s BOUT all the maneuver is very effective. I also think it's good for piles that are not blood pressure in the affected area.
26 º piques Never ever in town, my gsxr with me itch to be parents with glasses in minivans. For wanting to take off the weight of the m-40 that want to demonstrate that runs over his BMW 320 to your suzuki you can find in a very bad situation to any host. Lie on your right and let it go.
27 º had to choose the lane in traffic jam, always choose the left and hit the opposite lane, the cars do not usually get into it.
28 º My father always told me: "My son, if you had to give him a host of Madrid every asshole who deserves it for his driving, passing out splines hosts a lifetime and never end."
So if someone asks you a pepper tree, forgive as Jesus said and continues to yours. Nothing
pursue housewives to make a fuss for having missed a yield sign when you were coming, nothing to put on a par with another car and show him the finger because it was built without looking before you, and no run behind has advanced you the wrong way on the freeway to get past him and I see you, shake his head negatively as saying that is hopeless and immediately go to a sprint and shot between the cars to show what has been its futile attempt to overtake (sorry Papa, the latter by hard I try I can not help it).
29 º At the traffic lights do not stop in the middle of lanes, always on the side, if you miscalculate a jerk to stop do not pass over. The Wiggles are you in the back they're much more dangerous than you give yourself forward.
30 º Be careful where you park on the sidewalk these demonic beings called children have an irresistible attraction your bike, a little boy will always loose leash to play the exhaust pipe of your bike that will be hot. Do not touch the fork, or the tires or the fairing, always go straight to the exhaust pipe, and if this occurs you will have with those chicken even more demonic beings called parents for their offspring will be scorched aupa little hands. Park the bike on the sidewalk where no nuisance.
31 º Edge Do not get into the municipal or Picolet when you stop. The vast majority of them are young people who admire bikers and many of them are. If you are caught doing a Pirula education and good manners are your weapons. Explain that you were on the shoulder because it gives you more security than entrecarriles, or you've been a sprint to shake off the housewife that I was eating the ass. Ademñás many stolen bikes are recovered through such random stops we make. but if you get cocky, and quite rightly you have on your legal maneuver and very you take your bike will be fined up for not wearing condoms in your wallet.
Now that how you were caught doing a wheelie date for fucked up, because there if there is no excuse possible.
32 º In between jam and cars have to be extremely careful with the bikes coming out of them. Are you the one who has to stop and let to be incorporated into your lane entrecarriles. In this case you should always give way which is already in the lane .. First because they do not usually come to see as the eye sees nothing ass, you see them teach his front wheel between the cars long before they have the capacity turning the head and see if anyone comes. Second because it'll more slowly, we've been entering cars are driving slowly.
33 º Have mercy of other drivers. A grandfather 80 years ago in his volkswagen 20 gives the curves of acceleration and deceleration lanes of the highway from Madrid to 40 km / h at most. With a current sport can be a lot more than double with only one hand on the manillar.Además to be as recommended for security (it's not a hand, dammit).
is good. Do not hit the ass, do not give long, not ahead in the second to 8,000 laps on the shoulder, do not make a fuss. That scared me as the same is give me a blow.
The youngsters under 20 years in his new seat ibiza usually give them 5 km / h faster. At the bottom do not bet the angels.
Entering a highway until the traffic stops will all host requires practice. I have friends who live in the villages of the provinces most uninhabited and say that every time you come to Madrid with the car as spend fatal. Forgive entering the M-40 walking on eggs. To be placed on the left lane at 80 km / h because they are looking for a way out and cut down to read the signs. Do not put it above your hardest. The good that Jesus said.
is good pussy.
34 º Be careful what you might find in the middle of the street. A bag of cement or a bottle cage on a truck falls rapidly reversed by cleaning, but that does not mean that none exist. Mira
antitank barricades we put in some streets of Madrid. I will say that if the Russians attack. Pa do not enter the tanks. or something go.
Those of my generation, we spent our childhood thinking that some day Russia would invade the United States and therefore Europe. I've tried to go over the bike and is not passed. I said that the tanks do not pass. And if not try to pass ahead of two drivers on each side. The Russians are clear.
say that one of the mayors of Madrid, I think the Manzano appeared on television saying he had planned to travel all the capitals of Europe to meet with their mayors and see what they had proven solutions to the problem of trafficking, to see if was brought some idea. He said he had been in all major, London, Paris, Moscow, ... I had spoken to all mayors and all traffic directors, who had walked the streets of these cities, and had returned with nothing in their hands.
35 º After habértelo as black as you also say that one solution to traffic in Madrid and in any large city that succumbed to the traffic problem is the bike. Agility, which gives you the ability to park on the door of the sites, it is economical compared to the car and do little to contaminate the ideal vehicle in a city.
Cycling in cities like Valencia coast and Amsterdam are pretty flat is very well for small displacements, but Madrid is full of uphill and down, others have an extreme climate, both winter and summer.
If you were young mod Buy a scooter and a dash of mirrors, if you have a soul in the background a bit macarrilla but in life you're done being a opusino, buy a small chopper, you're always liked sports Share a 600 that is from the milloncejo pesetas. And if you lined these pasta, man, buy a Harley pata negra or a Honda Goldwing, you do not know what is shaken.
I do what you do, no doubt, in town By motorcycle.
Good luck.
PS: All the entrance are photos taken in Madrid.
