Close call

[Drago]

Beware the unlit motorist!

You sound like a shaolin master passing on a life lesson to Grasshopper.

 

[C R]

Complacency is right. I have ridden the bike paths and lanes in my little town thousands of times and now rely on changing bikes to help me stay present and aware when riding. Otherwise I drift off into a fog. We have a lot of headwinds here for which I tend to put my head down and grind away. Many times I've looked up just in time to avoid running into something or someone. Embarrassing but true.

I'm particularly affected by this riding the drop bar bike, I have to keep telling myself to look up.

 

[mjr]

Because there is no ambient light on those roads, the unlit motorist will have crashed long before he met me.

I thought that and then I saw some idiot driving across the dark dark fens at 60 without any lights on. It may be Darwin at work but I don't want them to take me with them!

 

[12boy]

Lights are good in the dark to alert one to a car. But here, with giant diesel 3/4 ton trucks with monster off road tires dominating the road I can hear them long before I see em. The guys who drive these behemoths don't need them for work but for show. Around here we call these guys all hat and no cattle. Some day someone in a prius is going to sneak up on me and kill me cause I won't hear them coming..