Basikal Lajak: What You Need to Know

Abstract

Basikal lajak is a new emerging cycling trend among Malaysian teenagers. This trend is also related to safety issues as these groups usually cycle in the middle of the road. Not many can understand this trend as the subject is still new. Therefore. a focus-group discussions were conducted to collect information regarding the activity. 30 teenagers participated in the focus-group discussion from Hulu Langat Districts. Their age ranged from 10 to 15 years old. From the findings, teenagers are known to be involved with this activity because they like to modify bicycle, cycle in high speed and they like to gather with their same aged peers. These findings would provide fundamental information regarding basikal lajak trend and would help future study related to bunch riding, risky behaviour and social problems.