Bicycles, Cycling, and Safety

36 Crucial Tips for Bicycle Safety

Apply these bicycle safety tips. Your life could depend on them

The author poses for a photo near the Mississippi River Headwaters in Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota. He was about to ride the first 520-mile leg of a tour of the length of the Mississippi River. Photo by Grant Runtsch.

Bicycling is a wonderful way to travel. For me, few activities compare with the exhilaration of traveling by bike at speed under my own power.