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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 11 Oct 2014, 18:11 ---Spoken like a city slicker up there who'd never left the environs of the same.
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Hush, you. I'm a good half hour from anywhere that serves a grande skinny latte with an extra shot and a side of biscotti.
GarandMarine:
Not you. Dalil...somethingsomething.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 11 Oct 2014, 19:57 ---Ah kin put y'all up in dem mountins where bycicles lik that'un will getcha kilt on tha roads.
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It isn't bicycles that get cyclists killed; it is cars, vans, trucks etc. The fact that an incident where a car is driven into a bicycle, and kills the rider, is called a "bicycle accident", and the death is listed as a "cycling fatality", and it is bicycles that are labelled as "dangerous", is victim-blaming and responsibility-avoidance of a rather disgusting kind. It is essentially like arguing that shirts are dangerous rather than guns, because if you get shot in the chest, the shirt won't keep out the bullets.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 11 Oct 2014, 21:14 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 11 Oct 2014, 18:11 ---Spoken like a city slicker up there who'd never left the environs of the same.
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Hush, you. I'm a good half hour from anywhere that serves a grande skinny latte with an extra shot and a side of biscotti.
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Grande is Starfucks-speak (yes, I know it means large), and biscotti is a plural term :P
HiFranc:
--- Quote from: SonofZ3 on 28 Jan 2011, 11:46 ---Please tell me all you QC cyclists wear at least 1 of those blinking lights that atrap to your arm, or have one on your bike. When it gets to be dusk, people on bikes without lights are ridiculously hard to fucking see from a vehicle. I'm not sure why, but its the truth.
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From what I can tell, this hasn't been answered so here goes:
Not seeing things that well at dawn and dusk is a known issue with humans. In fact most accidents involving pediastrians used to happen around that time. The problem is that we have two visual systems. The day system (cones) needs bright light needs bright light and allows us to perceive colour. Night vision (rods) work in low light but are in black and white. Dawn and dusk are times when there's not really enough light for us to use the day vision system fully but there's too much light for the night vision system to kick in.
Nowadays, I always wear hi-vis tops when cycling (and I've found a coat for when I'm on my bike). Accept when there's bright sunlight (and the sun is high in the sky), I'll have my lights flashing. After all, I only do city riding (although I have plans to change that) so I don't need a steady light.
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