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Rosa Carbó has been riding a motorcycle for 17 years and makes prudence when handling handlebars her best flag: “If I don’t see it clearly I won’t overtake, there may already be a broken line and visibility, which I don’t overtake. “I am always cautious because it is my life, what I am at stake.” Riding on two wheels carries risks and Rosa warns: “Just because you run more doesn’t make you better, you don’t have to prove anything. You run more and then a dog, a wild boar or a car comes out of the road, any unforeseen event… Speed ??makes the difference in the braking reaction. “You have to think more with your head and less with your fist.”
The accident rate on our roads has been reducing in recent years, except among motorcyclists. People who ride motorcycles represent one in three fatalities on the interurban road network and must live with this vulnerability on the road every day. To confront this fragility, Rosa’s recipe is attention, respect and caution on the part of all asphalt users. She defines herself as a “very cautious” biker and assures that her motherhood accentuated this caution when riding the motorcycle: “It is necessary for all of us who put ourselves on the road to think more about those who are waiting for us on the road.” home. “Women are more cautious, we have like a sixth sense.”
Rosa’s passion for motorcycles has also gone through some down times: “Unfortunately I have lost friends and family in accidents. For a while I thought about parking the motorcycle, I was respectful of going out… Later, looking back, I wanted to think that my friend Yoyes would be happy to see me on the motorcycle like she did, and we would go on a trip together.”
Regarding the presence of women in the motorcycling world, she assures that we are already at a time in which no one is surprised that a woman rides a large displacement motorcycle: “There are more and more of us, and it is seen and noticed on the road .”
Rosa is one of the protagonists of “The safest route”, the SCT’s new awareness campaign aimed specifically at the motorcycling group. To ride a motorcycle well, it is important to wear adequate protective equipment, perform good vehicle maintenance and practice calm and preventive driving. In this sense, Rosa highlights that “we cannot put each other in danger. We must keep in mind that the road is not a circuit.” Precisely, the campaign insists on the importance of the collective’s involvement in their own safety: “Make your route the safest route.”
