Bike Safety
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Bike Safety
Time for my annual plea.
Please remind/insist/stamp you feet and have a paddy at the cyclists in your family about high visibility and lights now it's getting darker and gloomy.
I personally have already had to do a double take at a cyclist dressed head to foot in black with no lights who was riding under a canopy of trees. He couldn't be seen but luckily I looked again.
I'm the wife and mother of cyclists (not just a motorist!) and I know I sound like a broken record about visibility and helmets and I know it's a faff sometimes but so is a broken bone (or God forbid worse) so please remind them.
Please remind/insist/stamp you feet and have a paddy at the cyclists in your family about high visibility and lights now it's getting darker and gloomy.
I personally have already had to do a double take at a cyclist dressed head to foot in black with no lights who was riding under a canopy of trees. He couldn't be seen but luckily I looked again.
I'm the wife and mother of cyclists (not just a motorist!) and I know I sound like a broken record about visibility and helmets and I know it's a faff sometimes but so is a broken bone (or God forbid worse) so please remind them.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad !
Re: Bike Safety
The safety is paramount but as an added incentive it is a fineable offence not to have bike lights.
At the start of term local bobbies catch a few in student areas as a warning to others.
At the start of term local bobbies catch a few in student areas as a warning to others.
Re: Bike Safety
Very good and timely advice doodles. One of my dh's colleagues was hit by a car a few months back and sadly died at the scene. The car driver claimed she hadn't seen him. So sad.
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Re: Bike Safety
I am still horrified by the number of kids/adults I see riding with no helmets, let alone visible gear. If nothing else, if you are unseen, at least the helmet gives you a fighting chance...
Re: Bike Safety
I personally am struggling with this in the mornings too. The sun is shining bright and even with the shades on the visibility is poor.
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Re: Bike Safety
I pass quite a few kids going to the local school when I walk the dog - most have no helmet but some do although it is invariably hanging from the handle bars rather than being on the head it is supposed to protect.kenyancowgirl wrote:I am still horrified by the number of kids/adults I see riding with no helmets, let alone visible gear. If nothing else, if you are unseen, at least the helmet gives you a fighting chance...