vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
You should be concentrating a lot more when driving a car anyway.
Sort some lights out !
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You should be concentrating a lot more when driving a car anyway.
- Location
- Glasgow
[QUOTE 3938610, member: 9609"]riding a bike at night with with poor or no lights would be about as mad as scrapping trident.[/QUOTE]
Well, truly @theclaud has a point.
If you only ride urban, lit, cycle paths you don't really need more lights.
On a clear night in town even on the roads one is clearly visible.
Of course, street lighting could malfunction, one may need to leave the cycle path, the night could suddenly change from clear and starry to stormy.
Having at least one good set of lights on the bike is desirable.
I feel if we all keep accumulating powerful lights on our bikes, motorist will so get used to them that they'll stop paying attention.
Of course, if you ride off road or on unlit country lanes it's different.
Well, truly @theclaud has a point.
If you only ride urban, lit, cycle paths you don't really need more lights.
On a clear night in town even on the roads one is clearly visible.
Of course, street lighting could malfunction, one may need to leave the cycle path, the night could suddenly change from clear and starry to stormy.
Having at least one good set of lights on the bike is desirable.
I feel if we all keep accumulating powerful lights on our bikes, motorist will so get used to them that they'll stop paying attention.
Of course, if you ride off road or on unlit country lanes it's different.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Some of them never started, which is a bigger problem!
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Ok. You drive in the lane with the blacked out landmines, and I'll drive in the lane where the landmines are lit up. We'll both concentrate in the road but I think I'll have less of a headache at the end of the drive.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I have noticed that the finest camouflaged military equipment is adorned with cycle lights to make it even less conspicuous.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
How does that work with car lights then? Should they be on or off?
winjim
Smash the cistern
Legally, it's sidelights only in a built up area. If everybody did this, it would be great. But they don't, so it isn't.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Front ones on, back ones off.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
that makes sense... I shall no longer think/say to myself "look at that idiot driving with only sidelights at this time of night."
winjim
Smash the cistern
I did start driving like that myself, since I hate to be dazzled, but my wife went bananas so I went back to dim-dips.that makes sense... I shall no longer think/say to myself "look at that idiot driving with only sidelights at this time of night."
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Hand her http://highwaycode.info/rule/113 and tell her she can bloody drive if she wants to break the rules
Eh? I read the comic when I was a kid.
winjim
Smash the cistern
Well, it doesn't demand dim-dip lights, but neither does it preclude them I think so no actual rule breaking. Either way it wouldn't work. By that I mean she'd end up driving and we'd both end up cross.Hand her http://highwaycode.info/rule/113 and tell her she can bloody drive if she wants to break the rules
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