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Lights and shit only works if fuckwits look.
I'm buying a full-face helmet, full body armour and I'm just going to see how many cars I can fuck up before I get killed. ;)
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Yep, but I reckon if I'd been lit up like a christmas tree the first would deffintly have seen me earlier and the second might have inadvertantly caught a glimpse in his mirror. As it was I had a not fantastic flashy light on the front and was wearing navy blue and black. They should still see you, but it felt like I was giving people an opportunity to not quite see me. The only consolation was knowing the second one is now calling the garage to ask how much a new wing mirror unit is going to be. Hopefully well over £100.
Ramsaye
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Crazy commute yesterday evening. I blame the twylight and impatient knobjockies behind the wheel. Normally my riding is incident free and I'm generally surprised by the ammount of difficult interactions recorded in this thread. Last night, I had two.
First up, just after setting off I'm turning right from Horseferry Road onto Embankment when some cunt in a BMW launches off the line having come over lambeth bridge and going stright on. He then has to jam the anchors on when he finally sees me, que tyre squeal and much swearing from me. Shaken. But a cabby did ask if I was ok.
Then, nearly home in Kingston, cruising down a bus lane with traffic backed up in the main carriagway, some utter wankstain decides to do the old manouvre, signal, mirror job and shoot for a quick left about 50m up the road. Straight into the side of me, he also jams the anchors, more tyre squeal which prevents a bad accident but is just suffcient to allow me to wipe out his mirror. Just as well, as I'd have D-locked it given the chance as he clearly doesnt actually use it.
All in all, got home wondering if its all worth it. Resolved to order all the lights and bright gilet to up the defences. Looking forward to it being really dark as i'm sure its safer than this half n half bullshit.