 'Tis the season where it gets dark at tea time, and therefore the period where moronic cyclists ride on into the dusk without lights. There's a bloody epidemic of them at the moment. Ok, you'll always get the complete idiots on BMXs and mountain bikes in dark clothes who insist on never having lights, but it seems that there's a fair few commuters and roadies out there at the moment who are 1) Looking to get themselves killed and 2) giving the rest of us a bad name. FFS 
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 Lights on my BMX would just look stupid...but I ride only have ride about 50yrds on a road and that's a floodlit city centre street, the rest is pedestrian areas
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 Yep, no lights, dark clothing and often now - on the bloody phone! Morons.
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I overtook a cyclist the other day was was riding one handed so that he can send a txt message! I gave him plenty of room (in fact I was entirely on the other side of the road) and was going at a totally reasonable speed but if he'd swerved in front of me I think I'd have struggled to muster up any sympathy.
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 I overtook a cyclist the other day was was riding one handed so that he can send a txt message! I gave him plenty of room (in fact I was entirely on the other side of the road) and was going at a totally reasonable speed but if he'd swerved in front of me I think I'd have struggled to muster up any sympathy. It that before or after you flung it into reverse to finish the job 
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 And on Monday evening there'll be shed loads of tin box drivers that forget to turn their lights on as they leave work.............
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 Overall levels of illumination are about right, I think the unlit bikes are balanced out by overworked car fog lights.
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 It doesn't help that to get a half decent light you're looking at about 40 quid up
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 Yes it's annoying if people don't put lights on when it starts to turn dark (or before) for that matter, but unless the passing driver shouts something along the lines of "Where's ya lights ya twat" then it won't change. So shout at em if you can. It might work, if not stop whinging, like dar said not everyone can afford 40 quid for a decent light. Mike S is right too. The number of pillocks with no lights at all on their cars round here is bonkers. Talking of whinging car fog likes on, when there's no fog, do me head in.
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I don't have a front light at the moment due to it failing, have to send it back to cateye at some point. But even then I barely used it on the bike cause of the stupid plastic strap, the thing would always point down so was useless.
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Dar, I have one of those Cateye lights as a backup when I'm nightriding. The strap is a bit of a pain but when it's done up properly it's super solid, very easy to mis feed the strap and lose the tightening effect of the lever though.
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fair point mike, I might be doing it wrong allthough I don't have the instructions or anything anymore, bought it about 4 years ago and I've moved 3 times since then.
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Play around with the way you thread the strap, you'll find that the lever is like a cam and tightens it. Bloody crap design though.
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I would rather pay £40 for a light than have to be the parent or loved one paying £4000 for a funeral..
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 Same here I have noticed, and everyone goes by bike, but truly shocked by the amount of kids going to school on the busy roads with no lights. I had lights on the roadie 4 weeks ago. Commuting in the morning is fun at the mo!!!!! Pitch black when the cycle path gets out of town, and last monday -1 degrees!!! Has since warmed up though!!!!
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It'll be a good idea to have a white flashing front light during the daytime very soon, daytime running lights are mandatory from 2011 for new vehicles so cyclists will become even less visible.
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 Slightly off thread but over here helmets are mandatory. Everyone wears them and even Myles puts his on now without complaint. His previous issue was "No one else wears one so why should I".
Lights are a big thing too. Can't recall seeing anyone out at night without 'em.
(Very BIG Roadie scene here as well so it seems)
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bajaja, the strap just snapped, definately being sent back to cateye
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 Tonight,i had a flashing LED, and a cateye white light both on, on a street with lighting,and still a muppet in an astra,tried to kill me by pulling out in front of methankfully for you lot he failed. Then a bit further on another muppet in a vivaro,drove straight across a junction after stopping to look at me,and then accelerated across just in front of me.
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Then a bit further on another muppet in a vivaro,drove straight across a junction after stopping to look at me,and then accelerated across just in front of me. Bugger, he better give me my money back!
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