Advocacy & Safety - Get Yourself Seen!!!!

The following vid was a public safety film that was shown on TV during the late 70's and 80's in the UK. It features an unforgetable Who inspired song with clever lyrics to get the point across. I reckon everyone above the age of 30 in the UK WILL know this song.

They don't show these type of safety 'adverts' on TV anymore (if they do they're usually tucked away late at night educating the insomniacs) but I think they're needed more now than they were then.

Great stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MFuSMz1zh0&NR=1

I don't know what bit's my favourite but it's either the 'Take a brush to your bike.....' or maybe the wee dude in the quasi futuristic silver suit. Open for debate....

Just noticed....not a helmet in sight!!!!

If it was ok in the 70's..........

How did they survive without helmets!!?

How did they survive without helmets!!?

They're probably all dead, RacerOne. 30 years without wearing a helmet is just asking for it.

They're probably all dead, RacerOne. 30 years without wearing a helmet is just asking for it.
Crap! I got my first bike in 1958. That means I should have been dead by 1988. Here I am, 22 years overdue for getting creamed. I must be a serious procrastinator, I meant to join the Procrastinators Club but never got around to it.

Crap! I got my first bike in 1958. That means I should have been dead by 1988. Here I am, 22 years overdue for getting creamed. I must be a serious procrastinator, I meant to join the Procrastinators Club but never got around to it.

If you don't join now it'll be too late although you can join the 'crastinators club' as an alternative but I'd advise you to leave that until the last second. While you think about that you can fill in this form (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hillend/areyou.html) but knowing you'll just leave it until later even though you know you should.

Just get a helmet so you don't end up like the poor people in the video (especially the guy with the white gloves on...can't even imagine what happened to him after 30 years of non helmet compliance)

If you don't join now it'll be too late although you can join the 'crastinators club' as an alternative but I'd advise you to leave that until the last second. While you think about that you can fill in this form (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hillend/areyou.html) but knowing you'll just leave it until later even though you know you should.

Just get a helmet so you don't end up like the poor people in the video (especially the guy with the white gloves on...can't even imagine what happened to him after 30 years of non helmet compliance)

That guy can't be a real Procrastinator. I mean the web has only been around about 20 years and he already has a web site up?
Puh-leeze. I sniff disdainfully in his general direction.

Definitely looks like UK. In the 70s, or whenever that was, there weren't that many cyclists in most of the US, and way too many "wellies" in those scenes.
Edit: Just saw the OP is in Scotland. That explains the fashions.

Definitely looks like UK. In the 70s, or whenever that was, there weren't that many cyclists in most of the US, and way too many "wellies" in those scenes.
Edit: Just saw the OP is in Scotland. That explains the fashions.

Wellies never go out of fashion (although the rubber soul makes it difficult to apply a cleat). To be honest there aren't that many cyclists in the UK now. Can't remember the last time I seen a bunch of kids hanging around with their bikes, all lit up like that........

That guy can't be a real Procrastinator. I mean the web has only been around about 20 years and he already has a web site up?
Puh-leeze. I sniff disdainfully in his general direction.I'll post a +1 to this later.

It's a little known fact that nobody actually survived the period from the 50s through the 70s. They took such insane risks that actually every person alive then was killed, some more than once.

Just get a helmet so you don't end up like the poor people in the video (especially the guy with the white gloves on...can't even imagine what happened to him after 30 years of non helmet compliance)

Just take your helmet fundamentalism to the helmet sticky.

-Kurt

To be seen, they have to look...

How can something like this happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQfK3HFaXFw

Were the rocks invisible? I don't think so.

To be seen, they have to look...


yes...the other side of the equation


Were the rocks invisible?

What rocks?

No...seriously.....it beggars belief. Drivers seem easily distracted. A big prob in the UK was mobile phone usage in the car. So the government made that illegal and now drivers, in an effort to hide the phone, are texting instead. Yep...driving along in their two ton planet killers, head down texting away. Just a couple of weeks ago i witnessed with my own eyes (obviously) a taxi driver jump a set of red lights and continued to enter a roundabout. I was waiting to cross and looked right down into the driver side. His head was down texting away. he just wasn't looking. Last saturday I was waiting to cross at a pedestrian crossing with my kids. The traffic light went green and the column of traffic started to move and, again, in the first car that passed me a lady was head down, one hand on the wheel, texting away. She must've been utilising her periphery vision as she navigated the junction as I could plainly see that she just wasn't looking.

I totally agree with your sentiment. What's the point of 'being seen' when the sods aren't even looking.

We can only try.....

I utilise the old, tried and trusted motorcycle approach of 'Defensive Riding' where making eye contact is the first technique that will inform you whether you've been seen or not.

It is pretty easy to reconstruct cell phone records. Anyone causing a collision and found to have been yakking or texting should be charged with DUI, because the impact on one's attention is at least as bad.

LOL, back in the 60's my mom got tired of taking me to the ER to get my head stitched up. She started making me wear my football helmet while riding my Stingray! The other kids laughed at me. I probably could have been a brain surgeon if I had worn the helmet all along!


Crap! I got my first bike in 1958. That means I should have been dead by 1988. Here I am, 22 years overdue for getting creamed. I must be a serious procrastinator, I meant to join the Procrastinators Club but never got around to it.

LOL, back in the 60's my mom got tired of taking me to the ER to get my head stitched up. She started making me wear my football helmet while riding my Stingray! The other kids laughed at me. I probably could have been a brain surgeon if I had worn the helmet all along!

If you are the sort of rider who crashes and falls down then by all means wear a helmet and knee pads and elbow pads. Even a bubble wrap suit.
Please do us all a favor though and avoid choosing a career that involves surgery or explosives, especially nuclear weapons assembly.

Do me a favor! Find a sense of humor. I was six years old jumping to old doors propped up on cinder blocks. Actually only had to get stiched once, but when she saw me fall another time the helmet came on. Good for her. You always wake up on the wrong side of the bed?


If you are the sort of rider who crashes and falls down then by all means wear a helmet and knee pads and elbow pads. Even a bubble wrap suit.
Please do us all a favor though and avoid choosing a career that involves surgery or explosives, especially nuclear weapons assembly.

Do me a favor! Find a sense of humor. I was six years old jumping to old doors propped up on cinder blocks. Actually only had to get stiched once, but when she saw me fall another time the helmet came on. Good for her. You always wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

Actually my post was 100% humor. Perhaps a bit wry and acerbic for your taste?

Nah, that would be a white past due. Your post was just not funny and sarcastic. But hey, that's OK. It makes the forum much more interesting.


Actually my post was 100% humor. Perhaps a bit wry and acerbic for your taste?

I don't see a link in the OP's post

Wellies ...(although the rubber soul makes it difficult to apply a cleat). .....

+1

"Rubber Soul" was The Wellies best album, hands down.

+1
"Rubber Soul" was The Wellies best album, hands down.

Yeah sorry about the beatlesque slip there. :o

Obviously, my subliminal appreciation of my fave Beatles album is all to obvious.

I read your post and I couldn't stop laughing at HOW obvious it WAS :lol:

Well spotted sir!!!! :thumb:

Just noticed....not a helmet in sight!!!!

If it was ok in the 70's..........

I noticed the same thing, too.