Originally Posted by Maelochs

Those ninjas don't Really endanger anyone unless they are riding the wrong way or unless you are ninja-ing too.

I am a firm believer in lights, having ridden in urban, suburban, and pitch-black rural roads, all of which can be ridden a lot more safely with proper lighting, in my experience. But sometimes, on very bright moonlit nights, I run without headlights just to enjoy the moonlight. Cars can see me as they approach, and I only ride when I know the road and can see well enough to pick out new obstacles (can never tell when a branch will blow into the road or some bit of debris will drop from a car) and other cyclists or pedestrians.

If someone were to pass me and yell "Lights!" I would ignore the person, same as I ignore the self-righteous dweebs who yell, "Where's your helmet?!" (By "ignore" I mean I won't yell "Inside your mom" or something ... any more.) So I usually don't tell others how to ride.

When I see someone approaching me on the wrong side of the road on a bike, I figure that is someone already finding life all too challenging, so I just move way out of the way.

There is a whole lot of stuff wrong in this world, but most of us never see any of it. We think "big issues'" are things like cyclists not wearing helmets or using lights. I try not to get too worked up about stuff, not to get others all worked up, unless it is something like torture, kidnapping, that kind of stuff. A cyclist with no lights, I can handle.