Ninja cyclists

[silverbow]

Car's with broken lights.

I carry in both my and my wife's vehicle a full set of bulbs and I always have done. During one of those 'it just wouldn't stop raining nights' I drove into a 'shallow ford' or at least it normally was shallow! There was so much water combined with my speed that the water was forced up into lights and took out the headlight/main beam light, sidelight and indicator light on one side and headlight/main beam light on the other. Being a Mr Bean type character I replaced the bulbs there and then.

I just don't think there is any excuse for not fixing car lights immeadatley, if the car needs to go to the garage to have bulb replaced, then technically the car has broken down.... call the AA (other breakdown service exist).

I wish we employeed the US system of on the spot fines for cars with out lights. Infact cycles should get the same treatment. I see no reason that if a car is stopped for a light being 'out', that unless they can fix it immeadatley then a simple fine on the spot, say £100.00 or similar should apply, a great way of raising revenue for cycle lanes!?! Pretty much everyone has a debit or credit card with them so it shouldn't be a problem.

Mr Angry of Suffolk.

 

[hackbike 666]

Walthamstow new McDonald's drive in.

Thanks silverbow,a sensible answer to what I suspected.(Posted via MP trouble with laptop)

laptop fixed with system restore but I just couldn't resist this picture.

 

[summerdays]

If practical, I knock on their window and tell them their light is out.

I often do tell them... but you normally only get the chance to tell one person at a set of lights, and it helps if they have an open window making it easier to tell them in summertime that only one brake light works.

I wish we employeed the US system of on the spot fines for cars with out lights. Infact cycles should get the same treatment.

I would agree with that ... fines for both cyclists and car drivers without working lights.

 

[dudi]

Since i started putting in a proper ride in the morning ( and therefore leaving before sun-up) I have seen loads of muppet cyclists.
Maybe it's because I ride to Stowmarket... and get there just as dawn breaks... that's where they all are - muppet cyclists.

 

[dudi]

I would agree with the lights & fines things too... so long as comon sense were applied on the part of the fuzz... for once.

 

[hackbike 666]

I moaned about this to the work colleague the other day about how I saw a cyclist jump a red in front of two police vans and he had a go at me about all the paperwork they had to do.

No doubt but it's a bit of a pain people getting away with things all the time.

I won't even tell people to get their feet of the seats in my trains now due to the fact that if it gets nasty I probably won't get any backup.