Summary: Today we continue with the series I started in Episode 9: The 10 Skills You Need to Overcome ANY Cycling Emergency. Today we cover the first skill of the 10: Navigation. Wikipedia defines navigation as: The process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.[1] It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks. All navigational techniques involve locating the navigator's position compared to known locations or patterns--Wikipedia Navigation is one of the most important elements of moving from one place to another. To navigate anywhere, you need to know Where you are, Where you are going, How you are going to get there. Today we discuss different types of maps that can be used while riding and how to use a Barmap or other holder to fix the map so that it can be used on the move. I also talk about some ways that navigation is different on a bike than it is on foot or in a car, especially during a survival situation in which you are using the bicycle as a tool for transportation. We also talk about some important themes of navigating on a bicycle like terrain recognition, and how to think of navigation as a sort of running process in our minds. Some stuff I mentioned: ITS Tactical The Survival Podcast Remember to sign up on our new email subscription form in the upper right. Once subscribed, you will receive updates by email of any new episodes and announcements from Survival Cycling.
