Cycling Bell-ends

[Oldhippy]

One concession I have made recently is buying yellow eye shades to tone down the w*nkpanzer and other new cars retina burning lights. Also some cyclists have no clue how to position the front light either.

 

[Arrowfoot]

I would spot a front or rear light of a bike long long before I spot the figure on a bike in the night. No amount of bright or reflective wear is better than the lights.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I see the OP / troll hasn’t been back.

 

[DaveReading]

But you have to admire his/her planning - 400+ posts over the course of more than a year, to give us a false sense of security.

 

[winjim]

Absolute blanket fog where I was today. No legal requirement for bike lights but you know who stood out in the gloom? Cyclists dressed in black.


(Also saw Father Christmas, about twenty or so reindeer and Scooby-Doo cycling around the Hope valley but I may have been hallucinating)

 

[mjr]

Absolute blanket fog where I was today. No legal requirement for bike lights [...]

Yes, there was. RVLR 1989 section 24(1)(a)(ii).

 

[winjim]

Yes, there was. RVLR 1989 section 24(1)(a)(ii).

Nope. RVLR 1989 section 4(3)(c).

 

[mjr]

Nope. RVLR 1989 section 4(3)(c).

Real bikes have lights bolted on.

 

[winjim]

Real bikes have lights bolted on.

So? You're still not required to light it in the fog.

 

[mjr]

So? You're still not required to light it in the fog.

How do you figure? The exception you cited does not apply if they're fitted.

 

[winjim]

How do you figure? The exception you cited does not apply if they're fitted.

It's not about whether they're fitted. It's about whether they're required to be fitted. What you're proposing is chaos.

 

[winjim]

 

[Solocle]

The driver of course.

And as the OP said, it would be the driver at fault if he hit the cyclist.

Though having said that, if it was an unlit road, then a car driver parking on the carriageway without lights would have been acting illegally, just as the cyclist was by riding without lights.

Just to note that this is incorrect. It's a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph that requires lighting, irrelevant of street lighting. See rule 249 and 250.

 

[Alex321]

Just to note that this is incorrect. It's a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph that requires lighting, irrelevant of street lighting. See rule 249 and 250.

Oops. You are of course correct.

 

[Scotty55]

I see the OP / troll hasn’t been back.

I've been back plenty of times. I'd not intended this to become a trolling or argumentative thread, just letting off some steam about the difficulty of seeing a cyclist at night all in black with no lights in the dark presents to a motorist (me, in this case).

Each to his or her own.