Originally Posted by
chipcom
Huh? Fact: lots of people ride the wrong way on the roads in dark clothing at night.
Huh??
FACT: If fewer people didn't ride at night in traffic without lights, fewer of them would likely be killed. It's
weird that you are arguing against that!
Driving drunk is not a "certain death sentence" either. Using your bizarro logic, drunk driving is OK to do!
Originally Posted by
chipcom
Fact: if doing so was a certain death sentence, cycling fatalities would be at least ten-fold what they already are.
You really don't pay attention, do you? I'm not claiming it was a "certain death sentence".
I said so earlier.
Originally Posted by
njkayaker POST 89
Anyway, a fair number of less-than-optimally-visible people manage to ride at night without problem. (How and where they ride may make this not unreasonable to do.)
Anyway, it should be obvious to people that "a certain death sentence" is hyperbole.
(Which is why the "tone nannies" like "I like to bike" and chipcom are
funny!)