Yet Another Cycling Forum

General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: civvy on 05 April, 2008, 11:17:53 pm

Title: Visibility On The Road
Post by: civvy on 05 April, 2008, 11:17:53 pm
From reading comments on various tabloid "news" websites, I have discovered that this...

(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3727/200pxgatsocamerazf8.jpg)

...is invisible, a stealth camera to collect a stealth tax.

However, this...

(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9507/nolight1qb6.jpg)
(An approaching cyclist in the roadway under a street lamp, with no front light (http://www.humantransport.org/bicycledriving/library/lights/lights.htm))

...is visible to the point that many motorists seem to see thousands of them in a two mile journey.


I'm giving up the lights, and the reflective jacket, nobody ever mentions seeing the cyclists using either item ;D
Title: Re: Visibility On The Road
Post by: Wendy on 06 April, 2008, 09:24:12 am
Wait till you see a recumbent!!! Apparently they are more invisible than ghosts.   ;D