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Dear Cyclist with the red flashing light on the FRONT of your bike,
You can wave your finger and shout about how stupid I am all you want Mr. Dyslexicycle - but the red flashy light goes on the BACK of your bike and the white steady or flashy light goes on the front.
On a dark street if you have the red flashy light on the front it looks very much like you are biking AWAY from my car. I care about you man, use your noggin'.
Thank you.
There are idiots all over the place. I can't stick up for someone that stupid, I have to agree with you.
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those red flashy lights are quite a bit cheaper than the white ones.
I give this person credit for attempting to make themselves visible in an affordable manner.
is your depth perception really so poor you can't tell if something is coming toward you or away from you? better stay off the road :)
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I wish it was me.
by the time it's dark out, I'm too tired to stretch into my lycra and hop on the mule.
teigyr
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and here I was thinking cyclist with a mullet.
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I wish I had a mullet. alas, the thinning hair makes the short in front/long in back look give me that level 2 sex offender look that's not so charming.
teigyr
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Sounds like a hairstyle you'd see in one of those hairstyle books at the salon. "I'd like a level 2 sex offender, please".
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it would have to entail a nice, fluffy mustache, all in the name of Movember, of course.
are any myballardians growing some upper-lip hair for the cause?
Great idea-
white flashing lights are not more expensive than tail lights, and no matter what you think it's incredibly stupid and in fact illegal to have a red light facing forward. It totally increases the amount of confusion in the situation.
Yes, the person may be more likely to be seen, but then the person seeing the biker is left with a confusing picture which takes away from his/her overall concentration. Short term maybe a little better, long term worse.
SmartsyArtsy
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Also disconcerting was the tall cycling ninja dressed all in black with only a headlamp on his helmet.
onederfullone
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Just witnessed six bicyclists abreast with a sharrow lane(dedicated, tax payer funded, property taking sharrow lane) at about ten miles per hour, six cars seeking to pass on a double yellow.
Idiots abound, selfish idiots abound, and we get to pay for it all.
would the spandex mafia use their facebooking lane, please?
Apparently not. I hope people wake up, but I'm not counting on it.
If bicycle idiot was a boat, he'd be facing a hefty fine, but cyclists are so revered and tolerated, we don't dare slap the crap out of them.
I look to our E-bike Mayor to correct the issue. /sarcasm.
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"Also disconcerting was the tall cycling ninja dressed all in black with only a headlamp on his helmet. "
ok, maybe I wouldn't be so foolish so as to put the red blinky on the front, but I see nothing wrong with wearing a headlamp.
how exactly is this disconcerting?
"If bicycle idiot was a boat, he'd be facing a hefty fine, but cyclists are so revered and tolerated, we don't dare slap the crap out of them."
true, I was out kayaking with 5 of my friends when a police boat pulled up and fined us all for blocking the shipping lane.
I love when people get all worked up over a couple bikers!
GAM
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The headlamp was smart. The "only" paired with black clothes part is where the stupidity comes in.
Death wish, perhaps?
onederfullone
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You certainly are free to love whoever you wish...
God speed.
GAM
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1der: Those sharrows are dangerous in my opinion because they keep bikes in dooring range. I would much rather ride in the main lane because it's safer.
That's no excuse for a pack of cyclists to not let cars by, though. Courtesy still goes a long way to avoiding road rage and fostering safety.
Mondoman
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Sharrows don't change any laws or rules or take or give any property. Their main danger is that they confuse people and encourage some bicyclists to ride where they arguably shouldn't, given road, weather and traffic conditions. We'd all be better off without sharrows. If anyone knows where they store the sharrow paint templates, maybe we can get together a group of folks dressed as New England Native Americans and go dump them all the harbor. As a bonus, if we do it today, we could just pretend to be eccentric Thanksgiving celebrants.
onederfullone -
Have to say it again, that's pretty rare. I personally have never seen 6 bikes riding abreast. Was this in Ballard? 10 mph is pretty slow for a bike too but I do see bikes go that slow and I am always mystified why they don't ride on the bike path as they are usually near one.
As far as passing, I rode around Mercer island yesterday. I'm in the twistys area doing a bit over 20 mph, which is way too slow if your driving but pretty decent on a bike. Car comes up behind me and slows down. I stay to the far right sometimes inches from the gravel, they don't pass. I keep going road is straight, I am as far over and going as fast as I can now, up to maybe 24 now, still no passing. Plenty of room to pass. My guess they just didn't want to pass. maybe they just wanted to look at my ass, I hope not....
But the moral of the story is that some people just don't want to pass. A light tap on the horn never hurt anybody and I appreciate it if someone does that to signify their presence. Did the riders actually know they were holding up a car? I really see very few things like this on the road. I had maybe 4 cars buzz me yesterday and a guy turned left directly in front of me and I know he saw me, passing well within 2 ft at approx 30 mph. Oh well,.... they didn't kill me and if I get mad I will end up staying mad for an hour about it over nothing I can do, so I just let it go.
Overall here's the deal, I ride alot and give cars as much berth as possible always because well, I will never, ever win an argument with a car, but there are crazy people out there all over the place. Some drive, some ride bikes, some walk. I really don't think it does much good to accentuate the antics of the small percentage of goofy riders out there.
Lets talk about the groups of people who walk 5, 6 abreast down crowded mall walkways now....
onederfullone
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I agree it's rare, I've only seen it once, for instance. It seemed they were too busy discussing spandex discounts, or proper tire inflation, or rear signal blink rates to notice they were impeding an entire lane of travel.
I did pass, double yellow, which didn't seem to bother them. I'm glad I didn't interrupt a bonding moment...
I'm sure it was the spandex moments. I can't tell you how may hours I spend in front of the mirror making sure I look good in them.
yourFriend
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i ride with spandex but always light up my privates so it is likely i look very short but if i ride with someone else then they use the headlight on their helmet and we ride very close together so we look like a two bike cyclist.
Just don't light up your privates with a red light
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