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Old 03-12-10 | 07:31 PM
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From: Victoria, BC

Bikes: Surly Krampus, Surly Straggler, Pivot Mach 6, Bike Friday Tikit, Bike Friday Tandem, Santa Cruz Nomad



My commuter rigs shown above!

Just to provide a counter point as a cyclist who does drive one of the vehicles profiled in this thread - I'd love it if commuter cyclists:

- used a front and rear light and didn't wear all black
- used lots of reflective material
- with lights used something bright enough for conditions [not key chain lights or LEDs with nearly dead batteries] and that was aimed somewhere useful...lots of red blinkies point at the ground, the sky or to the side.
- rode predictably in a lane vs. zooming around trying to find holes in traffic [might save you time, but might also get you killed]
- used hand signals to communicate what they were going to do.
- ride the right way down a road.
- don't jump from road to sidewalk and back.
- don't take a hard 90 turn from the right side of the road to a ped crossing and expect me to see that coming and stop for them

Since I commute by bike on the same downtown roads I take a ton of extra care to look for bikes and I still have close calls on many mornings. The totally unlit all black bike ninjas on a dark winter mornings are the worst!
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