Speed Vest

How long before the dibbles pinch someone for speeding citing video evidence of their own jacket?

Now thát is very cool. And 15 to 25 Km/h? pah! I can do 70 when the wind is in the right direction.

My “awareness of bicyclists” stems from the following:

1. They run red lights and stop signs all the time

2. They ride in the middle of the road instead of their lane

3. They will swerve into traffic at the exact time I am attempting to pass them

4. They are somehow under the impression that, because these are rural roads, that no one has to use them to…oh…get to work or something. So we have all friggin’ day to follow behind them riding six across (which is illegal here).

A vest with a speedometer in it is not going to change my “awareness of bicyclists”. Though a “portable hole” would help.

It’s a very neat idea, though in the UK, you’re not allowed to have /any/ blue lights on your vehicle (as they’re reserved for the emergency services). I wonder how long before some busy body tells them off for it.
I’d also make it more obvious that it was the speed on your back. When I initially saw that, I thought that it was an automatically updating position jersy for the tour de france etc.

I suspect that it will just encourage readers like “A Noun” to target cyclists more than they already do. My motto when riding (everyday 20km both ways) is to lay low, avoid behaviour like he seems to think is endemic (yes there are bad cyclists, same as there are bad drivers) and “smile and wave”. Works wonders in my relationship with psychopathic drivers like “A Noun”.

For those self-righteous ninnies who like to point out that they think bicyclists are scofflaws…

Statistics consistently show that cyclists are in general more law-abiding than car drivers.

(Not to mention that 30,000+ people die every year in car accidents in the U.S., making it the leading killer of young people, that car pollution is a huge contributor to global warming, that fuel taxes and car fees don’t begin to cover the costs associated with driving, forcing the other tax-payers to subsidize drivers, that every person on a bicycle makes your life easier as a car driver – giving you more room on the road, and more parking spaces)

So there.

Such a pretentious item.

Around here the bicyclists that ignore traffic laws are messengers, delivery people and pedicabs

@ eni “the demographic of bike riders who run red lights and stop signs is very small and composed largely of idiot 13 year olds who don’t understand the concept of mortality.”

This depends on the country you s[eaking of, i live in the Netherlands, and most bikers seem to think that red lights are for cars only. (or some weird 18+ stuff).

Forget showing off your speed, which is idiotic.

I was almost in 3 collisions my last time biking home from work.

All three occasions were women.
Two were on their cell phones.

I’m not drawing any conclusions, just presenting the facts.

(with a jovial grain of salt)

@Carl:

I know what you mean. Most of the worst drivers that I see are women, usually on cell phones. Although one recently was driving with a yellow Labrador on her lap.

Before anyone gets mad at me for being sexist, know that I am a woman.

Oh yeah, and when I used to ride my bicycle, I was one of the courteous riders who also used hand signals.