what's good everybody. Ramen on Wheels a.k.a the ROW Mobile is back with a requested
video. So some of you new scooter drivers out there trying to figure out how to
stay safe on the road with all those crazy drivers. So this is some defensive
scooter driving tips here coming to you. Let's get it. so there are five type of
riders or drivers out there that you need to keep your eyes on keep your eyes
on when driving the first driver is the distracted driver and that's the driver
that's either on their phone or texting or this is just some music or have some
kids in the back seat acting up. so their attention is elsewhere.
so these are the drivers that you have to get their attention on you and the
way to do that is blow some horns. it's blowing horns time. just blow it. I rather
look crazy, then to feel crazy after getting hit. so you need to get their
attention just blow some horns.
that threw me off. police alarm just. ambulance alarm behind me. so my oh snap.
what I do that's loud on us to please
oh man I completely forgot where I'm going. I'm just driving. okay so the
second one and see distracted drivers that's what I'm talking about okay the
second one is hold on. I just completely lost my train of
thought. man, dang. distracted drivers this is the one that this is what I'm talking
about.
are you going straight or what?
okay
oh okay you guys got to give me a second because it's like that police car threw
me off and I'm like you don't even know where I was talking about anymore
Oh No it's gone again
oh okay here we go here we go here we go the next the second one the second one
do dos dos it's those aggressive drivers you know
that wants to be all riding on your tail okay yields I'm gonna yield okay okay
the wants to be all on you you put practically kissing your scooters tail
right the ones that are apparently so in a rush that they could care less about
your life their life or anyone else's life around them all right
it's just that serious they just got to get where they need to go the only way
to deal with those kind of drivers is just to get out the way right
is there pull it to another lane if you can't pull it in the lane just simply
pull over straight up because if it comes down to your little scooter versus
in that big old car you will lose every single time straight up there is no
competition
number three the rest is
those visually challenged riders or drivers busy physically challenged
drivers yo like go go go go go get over Shauna
okay okay those digitally challenged writers the ones that just can't see you
for some reason I mean they just lack Per... Per... oh man I can't even say
the word right. Peripheral vision right. there like the percentage of the world
that don't have eyesight. Oh cop car. gonna make y'all ride with both hands
with them around them but they're the ones who apparently can't see you aware
glasses or just are blind to small vehicles for some reason. Now you can go
all blowing horns. oh I don't want to blow the horn because they don't think
I'm blowing at him but you can blow some horns right that's that's a good way to
get their attention but better is to have
brightly colored clothes on or gear or if you don't have like a scooter that
stands out we're color like you have those darker blues or blacks or some
dark-colored scooter or think you need something that gets their attention
right like driving with your leg up might get their attention I don't know
what I'm doing but for real. so the way the defend against
that ooh punch buggy red. but the way to get okay go I'm gonna slow down for you
don't worry
but uh the way to get their attention is get you some reflective strips right
they come in every sort of color red green blue yellow I'll put a link in the
description box below so you guys can check those out and if it's for you you
can go ahead and get it but yeah man I need it you want them to be able to see
you and these are also good for if you plan to ride at night you should
definitely have some reflector strips I don't really ride it like at night too
often I probably will start doing small right now it's just like you know if I
have somewhere to go at night you just take the car but you know right at night
reflective strips it helps it just ask that much more visibility to you just
your small little vehicle and people might not see you as often give me a
pause time.
play okay just finish what I needed to do well yeah kind of wanders just roam
around you know mate just roam around okay but yeah
visibility is key you got to get them to see you so combination of blowing some
horns and stop looking at me people. I was just blowing horns. Don't act like
you ain't never seen someone blow some horns before okay. so a combination of
blowing some horns and some reflectors see Ramen is white. so he's pretty
visible out here I mean you don't want a dark color to get blended into your
surroundings but I'll probably we'll get some no you know what I'm gonna do I'm a
customize my Ramen you know I did that sticker bomb video if you want to check
that out soon I'm putting like a link in the icon thing above but I did stick up
on my original scooter I might do something like that again not sticker
bomb but something you knew unique different right have you figured out
what it is yet but that's videos coming soon but yeah the third type of driver
is or no idea third the fourth type of driver is those intrigue drivers right
those drivers they mean no harm they're cool and all and I know they mean no
harm and they might not even realize they do this but those intrigue drivers
are those drivers that cuz you know scooters aren't that common in the US I
know in the UK they probably write those things everywhere
but in the u.s. they're not common at all where am I going
I don't know I'm just roaming I don't know what I'm going so when people see a
scooter out here they're kind of like intrigued. Oh what is that
oh cool let me get closer and they tend to drive up on I can go.
Shauna you can go. stop, stop distracted driver.
but uh they'll drive upon inside of you or drive up close behind you not because
they're in a rush but because they want to check out your ride they want to see
what you're riding on and then they're like trying to get your attention
they'll go a step further and try to get the attention like hey blow it you blow
at you like yeah give you the thumbs-up or that's cool where'd you buy that or
how much is something like that? Now at a red light this is fine. But going 40-50
miles an hour, it's not so cool right and you got those. hold on I'm just trying to..
guy behind me ride is on my butt. okay. which is fine if you're in a light but
when you're going those speeds it's not so cool and I know they mean no harm and
if you're new to it a new to the driving you're just trying to get a handle on
this it might just throw off your nerves
right it might get you all height with the 18-wheeler it might get you all put
you on the edge something you don't really need so you got three ways to
play this right you can do the go go go you can go up do the if you're confident
enough and you've been riding it for a while you can do the Oh head turn wave
smile like yeah thanks that's what's up thanks for the props right if you're not
quite there yet what you're getting the hint on it and you're like yeah I think
I can like respond to him you can give them the but at the same
time you just used to once they focus in a road you got your hands on you do it
quick like thumbs up like yeah I'm acknowledging you dude
I'm acknowledge you cool thumbs up but I want to stay focused on this road right
or if you like nope I don't even want to do that I'm just I'm straight off the
I'm straight on the road this is my first time I've only been on a few weeks
I'm just like nah man then ignore them not that you're trying to be rude or
anything but I mean you're just you want to stay focused it takes just a split
second for you to like turn your head and realize oh snap the car in front of
me got on its brakes and like you're right up on them just like that right it
only takes a second for it to be all over so you want to say focus ignore
them not that you're trying to be rude you just want to be alive
get over
but yeah you don't want it's not you trying to be rude you just value your
life and you're like I want to live and then
you have an excuse you wearing a helmet helmet hopefully you're wearing a helmet
and you can just be like oh I couldn't hear them because I'm wearing this thick
helmet and then finally that fifth driver that you want to watch how far is
those or the bigger ones the truck drivers 18-wheeler drivers because those
some of the scariest ones to be driving around not only do they if you're behind
them they tend to like kick up rocks and these things hard so hard that it can
like crack your windshield so imagine if it hits you right those things hurt the
key to those stay a good okay let me say down right where that car is right there
you stay that kind of distance between them you should have a distance like
that between us you two right if you're driving behind them if you're driving on
the side of them always drive on the left side so if they're driving in this
lane over here you need to be in this Lane you want to make sure they see you
because they will get over in a second and you're pretty much a pancake if you
run into those things straight up if you can't get on the side of them then try
to get ahead of them those tend to drive slower because they're so big now don't
get me wrong those things can pick up some speed for real but they tend to
drive slow because they're so big and it takes longer for them to stop so if you
could get ahead of them get ahead of them so those are basically the five
drivers you want to look out for if you have any other drivers that you say you
should look out for let me know I'm intrigued I would like to know if
there's another style driver you think that you should look out for and the
tactics that you used to look out for them and if you're newbie rider and you
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