Online Games
Risky Rider
Description:
Guide this Risky Rider over this epic jumps and perform tricks to gain bike points to upgrade your ride
Instructions:
Left/Right Arrows - Lean
Up Arrow - Accelerate
Down Arrow - Brake
1/2/3/4/5 - Tricks
Risk it With Risky Rider
Are you a risk taker? Do you
enjoy games that literally keep you at the edge of your seat as you try
to dodge different obstacles? Are you thrilled by the risk of running
away from dangerous obstacles at high speed just to save your life?
Risky rider is a game designed
to be played by those who find thrill in pulling neck breaking stunts.
In this game the player uses the keyboard to navigate a bicycle on the
screen doing several dangerous stunts. The more the stunts one pulls the
longer the player stays alive. Staying alive for long enables a player
earns more points.
All you need to do in this game
is pull stunts that will enable you survive for long. Players must also
remember to buy power so as to increase their longevity in the game.
Power for this game is bought during the turning stage. Buying power
enables one to advance to the next level.
The controls for this game are simple. Unlike other games where keys used to control it are far apart, here the keyboard keys
used are adjacent to each other making this game easy and simple to
play. The keys z, x, c, v and the space bar are the controls here. These
enable the player to pull several stunts that ensure his survival in
the game. The more the stunts one performs the more the points he or she
gets. The stunts involve jumping over several obstacles. The player can
also use the up and down arrows to speed or brake. The left and right
arrows enable the player to lean either to the left or right as he or
she may wish.
A player aims to show how good a
sports person he or she can be by jumping over various obstacles. While
enjoying the game, the player must remember to always ensure that the
bicycle is in top notch condition. The bicycles must be checked
regularly at the beginning of each level to make sure they are ready to
take the challenges of the new level.
The many levels keep one
literally glued to their screen as they strive to earn as many points as
possible so as to advance to the next level. This game can be played in
the office during breaks or at home as you relax. The game's sound
system helps to add to the thrill in the game. The game also has clear
graphics to help that makes cruising through the various terrains a fast
and thrilling experience.
When I started cycling in London
eight years ago I felt I was virtually the only one, battling for space
with taxis and buses. It was a fight with few allies. Today, things are
very different – I'm one of the pack surging away at the traffic lights. Official figures show more miles were travelled by bike
in 2008 than for each year since 1992. Cycling has almost doubled on
London's main roads in nine years and increased by 30-50% in cities such
as Bristol, Leicester and Leeds.
But it's really remarkable that
despite the increase in cycling, casualties suffered by cyclists are
still down by around a third. To anyone who doesn't cycle this might
seem a bit odd. Shouldn't more cyclists mean more crashes and injuries?
As those who cycle will know, however, the more cyclists there are the
safer it will be for everyone.
CTC (the UK's national cycling
organisation) found that the same phenomenon occurs if you examine
different areas within the UK. Cambridge, where a quarter of people
cycle to work, or York where it
is about one in eight, have a much lower risk of injury for cyclists
than places where you hardly ever see a cyclist on the streets.
Why does this "safety in
numbers" effect occur? The vast majority of cyclist injuries result from
crashes with motor vehicles, and most of these appear to be primarily
because the driver "looked but did not see". Cyclists (and
motorcyclists) have even given this type of crash a name – Smidsy, an
acronym for the drivers' refrain, "Sorry, mate, I didn't see you!"
These type of crashes start to decrease as cycling levels rise.
Take the hypothetical case of Bob the Driver, who last rode a bike when he was still in school uniform.
Bob drives up to a junction with a major road, glances right and, not
seeing anything car-shaped, pulls out into the path of the "unseen"
cyclist. Crash and injury result. If, as Bob approached the junction, there was a stream of cyclists crossing in front of him, he probably won't make the same mistake.
As more people cycle, one of the new cyclists may be one of Bob's relatives or friends, or even Bob himself. When riding a bike he is less likely to pose a risk to others than when he is driving – and more likely to understand cyclists' needs.
Even though cycling gets less
risky at the same time as more people taking up cycling, there may come a
point where the overall number of injuries to cyclists actually
increases. There are far more people killed cycling in the Netherlands
than in the UK, for example, even though the population is smaller. But
the Dutch cycle ten times further than here, and the risk per mile is
substantially lower. After years of badgering, the government has
finally agreed to present casualty data as risk per mile rather than
numbers of injuries and deaths.
At a population level, of course, not-cycling is far more dangerous than cycling. The life expectancy
of non-cyclists tends to be two years shorter, with 39% higher
all-cause mortality than cyclists. But most people still associate
cycling with danger. This is partly because this seems to be the main
message of government and local authority advertising.
I'm often told I'm brave to ride a bike
but few people consider it brave to get out into the garden and do a
bit of weeding. Yet in reality this is a more dangerous activity than
getting on two wheels. An hour spent gardening is more likely to result
in injury than the same time spent cycling. So remember, next time you
step outside to clip the hedge, beware of the risks you are running!
A tiny proportion of accidents involving cyclists are caused by riders jumping red lights or stop signs, or failing to wear high-visibility clothing and use lights, a government-commissioned study has discovered.
The findings appear to
contradict a spate of recent reports speculating that risky behaviour by
riders, such as listening to music players while cycling, could be
behind a near 20% rise in cyclist deaths and serious injuries in the
second quarter of this year.
The study, carried out for the
Department for Transport, found that in 2% of cases where cyclists were
seriously injured in collisions with other road users police said that
the rider disobeying a stop sign or traffic
light was a likely contributing factor. Wearing dark clothing at night
was seen as a potential cause in about 2.5% of cases, and failure to use
lights was mentioned 2% of the time.
The figures were slightly higher when the cyclist was killed, but in such cases only the driver's account is available.
The data, which was analysed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), showed that more than a quarter of all cycling deaths in 2005-07 happened when a vehicle ran into the rear of a bike. This rose to more than one-third in rural areas and to 40% in collisions that took place away from junctions.
The 64-page analysis found that
police attributed responsibility for collisions more or less evenly
between drivers and cyclists overall, but this was skewed by the fact
that when child riders were involved their behaviour was named as a
primary factor more than three-quarters of the time.
With adult cyclists, police
found the driver solely responsible in about 60%-75% of all cases, and
riders solely at fault 17%-25% of the time.
The cyclists' lobby group CTC
said the report showed that the government needed to focus more on
driver behaviour rather than on issues such as cyclists wearing helmets.
The TRL published a separate DfT-commissioned report today in which it
was estimated that the universal use of helmets could save between 10
and 15 lives a year, a conclusion disputed by the CTC.
"The main cause of crashes seems
to be 'failed to look properly', whereas very few cyclists are injured
or killed acting illegally, such as failing to use lights at night or
disobeying traffic signals," said Chris Peck, from the lobby group.
"We believe this report strongly
supports our view that the biggest problem for cyclists is bad driving.
With that in mind we are greatly concerned that the government still
seems fascinated with analysing and promoting cycle helmets, the value
of which appears to be inconclusive. We believe that the government
should now focus on tackling the causes of injury which appears to be
mainly inconsiderate and dangerous driving. Reduced speed limits,
stronger traffic law enforcement and cycle-friendly road design are the
solutions."
TRL recommended that more
research be carried out into the relatively high numbers of young
casualties, finding that those aged 10 to 15 were most at risk of injury
for each mile cycled. Riders aged 16 to 29 were more likely to suffer
harm than any other adult group.
The data – which covered
incidents on the highways – showed that 3% of all collisions leading to
deaths or serious injuries took place on bike lanes, and almost 80% of
casualties happened during daylight hours. Just over 15% of all such
accidents involved the cyclist alone.
It's a pleasure for
Copenhagenize to publish an article by one of Denmark's great thinkers
regarding bicycle culture. Thomas Krag has a Masters degree in Chemistry
but for many years he has been closely involved with Danish and
international bicycle culture. He was the head of the Danish Cyclists'
Federation [DCF] from 1986-2000 and he now runs his own consultancy
Thomas Krag Mobility Advice.
Thomas' Cycling, Safety and
Health article discusses risk perception and how we (often wrongly)
measure risk and goes on to highlight how safe cycling is as well as
showing the health benefits of having high numbers of bicycle
users/Citizen Cyclists in a city or country.
Thomas' work has been a great
inspiration to me over the past four years. He has been a bit off the
bicycle radar for a time, but his rationality and academic approach is
much needed in Denmark and internationally.
Thomas Krag has tremendous
knowledge and experience in all aspects of bicycle culture and
statistics. We've been planning on publishing this article of his about
Cycling, safety and health for a while and today we got it done. It's
long but worth the read. The .pdf of this article is available from the
European Cyclists' Federation's website right here.
Here comes the blog version. Click on the graphs for larger versions.
Cycling, Safety & Health
by Thomas Krag
Introduction
Cycling
is free of pollution and healthy for the user. The bicycle is probably
the most sustainable transport means yet invented. Moreover, cycling has
a significant potential to replace car use in cities, where many car
trips are short. Based on elementary risk figures, however, cycling
seems to be unsafe as compared to driving, which is widely used as an
argument against bicycle promotion.
It can however be questioned
which risk measures are relevant to use. Areas with high levels of
cycling seem to be safer for cyclists, as well as other road users, than
areas dominated by cars. Statistical evidence, moreover, suggests that a
non car-based lifestyle with lots of cycling can be associated with a
smaller risk of getting killed in traffic than a car-based lifestyle. On
top of this positive health benefits from cycling far outweigh the
negative health effects from cycling accidents.
The matters are discussed in
more detail below. It is concluded, that cycle promotion is fully
defendable from an ethical point of view, while it is more disputable to
discuss traffic safety in isolation from other health effects of the
traffic system.
A few words on terminology
Cyclists
are often described as "soft", "weak" or "vulnerable" road users. Seen
as individuals, regular bicycle users are however usually tougher than
those who do not benefit from regular physical exercise. The term
"unprotected road users" therefore gives a better description of the
fact that cyclists are subject to severe injuries in crashes.
Care should also be taken when
using the term "cyclist". In the following article, the term is used
solely for a traffic user, who is riding a bicycle in a given moment.
Those who sometimes or often cycle, are called bicycle users.
Risk
The
injury risk is often calculated and used in connection with engineering
considerations. Generally, the risk is calculated as the number of
undesired incidents (accidents, injuries, injured persons, deaths)
divided by a measure for the amount of transport involved (kilometres,
trips, time).
This opens for calculating a lot
of different figures, and a good degree of care should be taken in
which of them to be used in which connection. Usually the number of
injured, severely injured or killed persons is used for risk
calculations. This is preferable for using the number of accidents, as
each accident can involve one ore several persons. One person can, on
the other hand, be hit by one or more injuries in one and the same
accident, and for this reason the number of injured persons is usually a
more relevant figure than the number of injuries.
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