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How often do you see cyclists even raising an arm. Also most cyclists I see love wearing dark clothing, especially in winter, at night, without any form of ade
by opless 12y ago
How often do you see cyclists even raising an arm.
Also most cyclists I see love wearing dark clothing, especially in winter, at night, without any form of adequate lighting!
- adam-_- 12y agoPlease can we avoid subjective generalisations like this.
- opless 12y agoI live in Cambridge. I see cyclists every day. In fact most drivers are much more cyclist aware than, say, London. Just because you object to my anecdote, don't reject it as anti-cyclist rhetoric
- adam-_- 12y agoI can just as easily add my own anecdote about cars or cyclists but then neither of us are contribution much useful to the original conversation.
- ericcumbee 12y agoI live in a College town. 9 times out of 10, they do not signal, let alone look before cutting out in front of you.
- opless 12y agoIn fact a cyclist came out in front of me from the pedestrian exit of the local railway station car park. Completely out of control and realised he was being a plonker. Stopped in the middle of the road ( a nice blind 90 degree one) looked at me deer-in-headlights and waved thankfully as he rode off. No lights either, but a helmet. I fail to see what kind of uptake a flashing orange light on someone's wrist or bike would help if most folk who use them do not even carry a spare set of batteries for their bike. The serious cyclists do make themselves very visible and are a pleasure to see alas they number one in ten or so :-(
- bobnoltis 12y agoWell in my experience as a cyclist, I'm sure you see a lot of them as most drivers are focused on their phones, their radios, the scenery -- anything but the road.
- opless 12y agoYep especially men in white vans on the phone :)
- opless 12y agoOh! Yes! I see at least one cyclist every morning fiddling with their phone. And tonight I saw two (in Norwich) tapping away on their phones two handed , dark hoodies, and without lights on a road approaching a hairpin S bend. That said they were teenagers so I guess they figured the glow from their phones were enough ;)