I know that everyone here has lights on their bikes, and that nobody
here thinks of riding around at night with black clothes on and no
lights, but can someone do *something* about the idiots out there that
are trying to kill me!
Every night I meet bodies in black on bikes with no lights, last night
one almost took me out: Unlit street, he had no helmet, no lights,
black clothes and was riding on the wrong side of the road HEAD ON AT
ME.
The ones with no lights on the bike track I can almost cope with,
they're usually going so slowly that they're just like the unlit
pedestrians, joggers and dogs.
The REALLY scary ones are the elite few who have a light, a RED
FLASHING LIGHT ON THE HANDLEBARS. Come up on that around a bend in the
dark and you think there's someone going the same direction you are,
you pull right to overtake and by the time you realise, the idiot has
nearly hit you head on. If you're reading this, the two idiots I see
every week on the Gardiners creek path, this is for you:
THE RED LIGHT GOES ON THE BACK.
there, I feel much better now.