I tend not to turn my front light on until I'm on the road, the cycle track is well lit and it saves the battery. I always turn it off when i mount the pavement.
I do that too, being an occasional pavement cyclist in a place where I'm riding towards oncoming traffic for a hundred yards or so to get to a safe crossing place on a dual carriageway.
I run the lights on at least low power (the ones I can switch) when on the cycle track at night because it's the law and hopefully reduces the number of people calling phone-ins like this morning's ranting about unlit cyclists. Walkers really don't like unlit cyclists, even on cycle tracks.I tend not to turn my front light on until I'm on the road, the cycle track is well lit and it saves the battery. I always turn it off when i mount the pavement.
In this morning's phone-in, it seemed to be lumped in with not using bells as unnecessarily surprising to people walking on/near cycle tracks. I think when one was asked whether they said anything, their reply was something like "what can you say? By the time you do, they've gone" so I don't think I'd take never hearing a complaint on the street as proof no-one cares. Loads of people seem so scared about being the victim of a Kenneth-Noye-style road rage attack if they criticise another road user.Never had (or heard) a complaint from a ped on a shared use track due to me not having my front light on... and there's no shortage of them. It's one of several laws that I'll happily ignore.
In this morning's phone-in, it seemed to be lumped in with not using bells as unnecessarily surprising to people walking on/near cycle tracks. I think when one was asked whether they said anything, their reply was something like "what can you say? By the time you do, they've gone" so I don't think I'd take never hearing a complaint on the street as proof no-one cares. Loads of people seem so scared about being the victim of a Kenneth-Noye-style road rage attack if they criticise another road user.
I don't much care about it either way personally, but it seems to really upset some people and I have the lights anyway (the batteries last >10 hours, or I often use dynamos) so I don't see much reason not to light up.
Yeah... our urban areas are designed round them to the detriment of others. The true costs of their motoring is underwritten by society. They appear to be able to kill with relative impunity. How awful for them.
Probably worth reading a little more in future... if only to avoid posting nonsense.
(quote edited to remove the bulk of the nonsense)The only reason they dont dole out fines to dodgy cyclers is...
Or are councillors, or so it sometimes seems! Anyway, I've an excuse for being on the phone-in: they called me!PLUS... people who phone in to 'phone-ins' don't get out much, they've probably never even been on a shared use path.
That's the only way I have ever ended up on a phone in: they called me and prearranged it.Or are councillors, or so it sometimes seems! Anyway, I've an excuse for being on the phone-in: they called me!
Probably none of us. Especially not that former UKIP candidate for police commissioner. The Conservative has shown himself loony enough about cycling - just imagine!I wonder how many people on phone ins are genuine callers?
Repeat the same experiment on a bicycle at walking pace.False equivalence.
We all agree that walking on pavement is safer. We are not talking about walking, we are talking about cycling.