DavidR wrote:

And where there is no street lighting, and some toss is pedalling along,
dressed in black and weaving all over the road? There is, in fact, a
legal requirement for even the dimmest of cyclists to have lights on
their cycle whilst using the public highway in the dark, although I must
admit that the latter is becoming rarer and rarer. They're usually on
the path.

I suppose, in that cycling apparently elevates you to some sort of green
sainthood, you then become exempt from the laws that bind the rest of us.

The trouble is that far too many cyclists think that they are immortal,
when in fact they are architects of their own destiny when it comes
sudden death or injury engineered by their own stupidity.

"Of course I don't need lights, it will always be the fault of the
motorist. Fluorescent waistcoat or jacket, don't be silly, it's only
other people that cause accidents, I'm immune because I've made myself
invisible."

It's a better bet than iPod headphones for the wilfully blind if it
makes them deaf as well!

Why do the only people on wheels who are allowed to use the roads
without any formal training or testing prior to doing so, and rarely
carry public liability insurance which is compulsory for all other road
users, think that their skill is greater than any other road user?

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