Haha an old bloke commuting on an e-bike harangued me for not ringing a bell when I passed him on a normal bike once.
Why I don't ride road anymore
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pink poodle
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I get it from morons all the time.
Slowman
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The one thing I always have is a very bright flashing rear tail light so it can be seen in bright day light. I have mine on always, in fact I was the first to do it, and now everyone has copied me
I believe the flashing wakes up/alerts drivers, both on a conscious and sunconscious level. I've been on the road long enough to have friends killed and I've even been hit by a driver dozing off at around 100km/h - I guess you can call me lucky. It was after a cluster of incidents like that in my 40s that I started using a tail light at all times. I think it helps, and now everyone I know does it, and some even using a flasher on the front too. I tend to do that early, on the suburban streets, until I get to the highway.
Call me crazy (Fargo style) but I also reckon staring straight at motorists, in the eye, alerts them at some primeval subconscious level too, as a threat perception is triggered. You know back when we were cavemen anything staring at us was likely to be a predator.
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cammas
Seamstress
This any time I can, especially if they have fucked up, but always at any intersection it does make a difference, the only thing it doesn’t do is make a chunt change their mind, if they are going to cut you off, they will.
Slowman
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I always make sure I ride too slowly to be cut off, yes the point is to make them see you, what they do after that hopefully is done quickly enough with proper judgement so that a collision is avoided.