As the days get shorter, the good folks over at Momentum want everyone to be safe our there. Now, you could watch a very informative, if dull, safety video or you could watch this Obivion Neutron Bomb spoof music video, Let’s Get Visible, performed by the B:C:Clettes, a group of female performance artists with a bicycle bent.
We’re all for being visible and appreciate this sometimes funny, sometimes painful short. And while we wouldn’t want you to necessarily go out a buy a pair of Cordarounds, please make sure you have lights and reflectors that are in good working order before you head out at dusk.
Be safe out there and get visible!
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on Nov 19th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Sometimes, it doesn’t seem to matter much how visible you are in the dark. Being well-lit doesn’t protect you from ingorant motorists who seem to think that cyclists have to yield to cars in any circumstance.
On my way to work in the norning, I pass in front of some apartments where this one woman invariably pulls out right in front of me, looking right at me (and my very well-lighted bike), apparently believing that although I actually have the right of way traveling down the street when she’s pulling out of a driveway, that I’m the one who should stop, FOR HER. The last time, I stopped right in front of her car (she finally stopped when it became apparent that I wasn’t stopping to let her out of the driveway), and yelled right at her, “STOP, Dammit!!!”
Being well-lighted is a good thing (as well as being the law), but we still have to be on guard against driver ignorance and mustn’t let ourselves get a false sense of security from our visibility.
on Jan 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
[...] in one product. Now I’m all for visibility. Light yourself up like a Christmas tree and get visible. I’m not sure lasers shooting on the ground is going to work in the real world, but if they [...]