Get Some F**king Lights

I've always felt the best thing about being lit up like a Christmas tree is it gives the minicab drivers something to aim at when they're on the phone.

Two blinky knog lights on the front and two blinky red lights on the back. I have one on the timbuk2 messenger back that also has a silver reflective strip down the centre.

Get some fucking (proper) lights.

Gsfl.

The £7 front light in Wilko are fucking good ... really really bright.

When I drive in London I take advantage of the relatively good street lighting and work on the assumption that there may be pedestrians or cyclists out there dressed in dark clothing and with poor or no lights.

Thus far, I have not hit anyone.

I hit someone with my bike the other day.
I was literally so angry, I got off, picked my bike up and hit him with it.

I hit someone with my bike the other day.
I was literally so angry, I got off, picked my bike up and hit him with it.

What kind of lights did he have?

When I drive in London I take advantage of the relatively good street lighting and work on the assumption that there may be pedestrians or cyclists out there dressed in dark clothing and with poor or no lights.

Thus far, I have not hit anyone.

This is a very good point. Pedestrians do not wear lights. Bicycle lights, unlike those fitted to cars are (in most cases) designed to be seen, not to illuminate the road ahead.
The next time a pedestrian tells me to get some lights (on an odd occasion that I have none fitted) I shall write to my MP and demand that the highway code is rewritten to enforce the wearing of hi-viz clothing between dusk and dawn.

What kind of lights did he have?

don't make light of the situation.

When I drive in London I take advantage of the relatively good street lighting and work on the assumption that there may be pedestrians or cyclists out there dressed in dark clothing and with poor or no lights.

Thus far, I have not hit anyone.

Another point worth mentioning is that when I was in Amsterdam, nearly all the cyclists have appalling poor light, worse than those old knog frog one with a depleted battery, a handful of them have dynamo but still most of them tend not to have light.

Of course this is Amsterdam we're talking about where people are somewhat more cautious of their surround, but was interesting to see how they managed to work their way round.

When I drive in London I take advantage of the relatively good street lighting and work on the assumption that there may be pedestrians or cyclists out there dressed in dark clothing and with poor or no lights.

Thus far, I have not hit anyone.

Keep trying, you'll get one soon.

don't make light of the situation.

I'm sorry. Please don't punch my lights out.

Just take time to reflect.

It's all so clear to me now

"fucking lights" are those the ones I keep seeing with a "disco" function?

bird bird bird, bird is the word,
bird bird bird, bird is the word,
haven't you heard about the word?
Everybody knows that the bird is the word.

Wrong... it's: b b b-bird bird bird, bird is the word...

"fucking lights" are those the ones I keep seeing with a "disco" function?

I think he might mean Fleshlight

hah, imagine a fleshlight with disco function

hehe

Who was saying their USB charger for their Flea had died? I thought they came with a lifetime warranty? Send it back... Though if you've binned it you can buy them separately for a couPle of quid, I had to do this as I bought the first version that only came with the battery charger.

Me. Didn't know that. I'll look into it. I bought mine separately too.

I just walked home from a very nice dim sum experience in Dalston - it's about half a mile from Dalston to home down Balls Pond Road. In less than 500m I saw 11 cyclists - 10 without lights.

Why when you reach Dalston does the use of lights seem to go out of the window?

I just don't get it.

At work, I spend quite a while convincing people to buy light, but they appear to be more interested in the builder's vest, belt, arm strap and rucksack cover than a light.

It's exhausting work trying to explain to them that a mere flashing light will make them more obvious to us than the huge amount of dayglo colour they chosen to wear.

Dear Hipster Idiot

Your lime green create bike is glaringly awful. Though it radiates shitness, it will not illuminate other road users as to your presence.

Get some fucking lights.

I don't like it when cyclists have front lights that are too bright. It's central London, not Dartmoor, you don't need something that's been decommissioned off a lighthouse. All you do is blind other road users - including other cyclists. I suspect there is an element of dick waving about it all.