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Old 03-02-13 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jyl
If you ride at night with no lights or dark clothes, you deserve to be hit.
You should tone down your arrogant rhetoric a tad.
Originally Posted by jyl
Doing all of the above will keep you safe around the 90% of drivers who are alert and careful. There is the 10% who are so careless, tired, drunk, distracted that they will drive right over you even if you're in fluorescent orange head to toe in broad daylight. They simply don't register that you are there.
This statement makes you sound like a basket case hysteric, or worse. If those percentages were even faintly close to reality, bicyclists would not last a day cycling on the street.
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