The Ultimate Brakeless/Front/Rear/How many brakes? thread

Plus every day I see people riding that do things much worse, running red lights, taking mobile phone calls whilst riding, riding with Mp3 players on.

Yeah, that's the 'ad hominen tu quoque' thing again.

Not quite, but you are right that his argument is still a logical fallacy, but it is more an appeal to the popular or argumentum ad populum - of the type: 'everyone is doing it so why can't I'

You could argue that he is using 'ad hominen mihi quoque'

(these people ride like cunts so why can't I also ride like a cunt)

[laughs wryly to himself and strokes the leather elbow pathces on his jacket]