I tell you what I have noticed. Well to start I should say I have never been a big cyclist, so the times I’m riding at dusk or in the dark are so few and far between that I never purchased lights before quite recently. Well since I’ve had lights, cars give me a HUGE birth…they make this massive, respectful semi-circle around me whereas before they never. Now it would be ill thought out to assume that before the lights drivers never saw me, as if that was the case I’d be dead. It’s just that the lights seem to earn you a LOT more respect. It’s like they’re thinking “you’ve made the effort for MY safety, so I’ll make more of an effort for yours”. I now have two front and two rear lights and would NEVER go out without them in dim light.
I was disheartened to hear that cyclists WITH helmets got less room off cars and other vehicles than bare headed riders, though. For the life of me I can’t work that one out. Now I don’t know whether to wear a helmet or not.
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