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[MattAune]

@pfunkallstar 69989 wrote:

You: Everyone getting their knickers in a knot about light brightness.
Me: Just appreciate visibility, look to the side of the trail, move on.

Please tell me you are not ‘4,200 lumen light shined right in my face on the trail’ guy. Even worse are the people who have lights that strobe so bright it is going to cause a seizure. But this topic has been beaten to death here many times.

You: jackhole in the truck that came within a couple feet of hitting me as I was walking across Washington blvd with the signal.
Me: looking at you with disdain.
You: stopping in the middle of the intersection and rolling you window down to ask my why I looked at you.
Me: I have never yelled at someone so much in my life, nothing that I said can be repeated here.

[rcannon100]

@pfunkallstar 69989 wrote:

You: Everyone getting their knickers in a knot about light brightness.
Me: Just appreciate visibility, look to the side of the trail, move on.

You: Everyone getting their knickers in a knot about blinded oncoming cyclists crashing into them.
Me: Just appreciate that the brighter your light, the more of an alpha dog you are.

[oldbikechick]

@MattAune 70010 wrote:

But this topic has been beaten to death here many times.

OK, this is true. But, one last thing to say. On the light thing, it really does come down to what is appropriate on the road vs. the trail. This week, I found myself behind the wheel of the car for a couple of days on my commute and it’s always helpful to see a different perspective. So, while driving on Ohio drive at 6:00 pm, I saw a headlight coming at me, as bright as a car headlight, but a single light. At first I thought it was a motorcycle, a slow-moving motorcyle. Then, it came by and I saw it was a cyclist. And I thought, man, that light is awesome! I almost chased him down to ask him what kind of light it was, but he might have gotten the wrong idea if a woman in a car started chasing him. It really worked great on the road, looked just like a vehicle headlight. However, on the trail, that light would most likely be too much, so hopefully he has a lower setting or something for that. So, lesson learned, we need to adjust our lights when we go from road to trail and back again, cause whatever works on the trail, is probably not sufficient on the road and whatever works on the road is probably too much for the trail.

Final, final thought: before all these posts about light brightness, I was never bothered by people’s lights on the trails. Now I am bothered all the time by those bright, strobing lights. Thanks a lot, forum thread!!

[ShawnoftheDread]

The other night I was riding on a side street with my light on high when an oncoming driver flashed his brights at me. So I turned on the strobe.

[Jason B]

@hozn 69992 wrote:

You: Everyone getting their knickers in a knot about that guy urinating all over the toilet seat and floor in the bathroom stall.
Me: Just appreciate that he’s peeing in the bathroom, use the stall a couple over, move on.

I work in a high school, so the stall with pee on the toilet seat is considered the clean one. You don’t even want to know what is in the stall a couple over.

[pfunkallstar]

Just be glad he isn’t going for the upper-decker…

@hozn 69992 wrote:

You: Everyone getting their knickers in a knot about that guy urinating all over the toilet seat and floor in the bathroom stall.
Me: Just appreciate that he’s peeing in the bathroom, use the stall a couple over, move on.

[bobco85]

From Saturday
To the guy who ran every single red light on the Penn Ave cycletrack in front of me: You know, it would have been far safer and more efficient had you just waited at each red light to legally cross. I was able to wait at every red light and STILL passed you once we turned onto the 15th street cycletrack without even changing my pace!

I think it was a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment, which I will define as follows: a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment is a situation where you see a person breaking the law in front of you to get ahead and yet you are still able to pass that person while being a PAL without any extra effort. Some examples of people you pass would be people who run red lights, blow through stop signs, and make dangerous passes on trails. During a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment, you can think/say, “Go ahead and break the law. I’ll still catch you and pass you!”

(this term is waiting approval by (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie)

[baiskeli]

@bobco85 70156 wrote:

I think it was a Dickey moment, which I will define as follows: a Dickey moment is a situation where you see a person breaking the law in front of you to get ahead and yet you are still able to pass that person while being a PAL without any extra effort. Some examples of people you pass would be people who run red lights, blow through stop signs, and make dangerous passes on trails. During a Dickey moment, you can think/say, “Go ahead and break the law. I’ll still catch you and pass you!”

(this term is waiting approval by Dickey)

I like it. When you get approval, please add it to the Forum Dictionary.

[consularrider]

@baiskeli 70180 wrote:

I like it. When you get approval, please add it to the Forum Dictionary.

Just remember to spell it “Dickie.”

[baiskeli]

@consularrider 70184 wrote:

Just remember to spell it “Dickie.”

Ah, yes, thanks. This is a dickey:

http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/NationalWholesale/8628_main?$Product284$

[bobco85]

@consularrider 70184 wrote:

Just remember to spell it “Dickie.”

D’oh! I will correct the error, but will wait for Dickie to approve. Wouldn’t want him getting confused if someone claims they had a Dickie moment!

[consularrider]

@baiskeli 70192 wrote:

Ah, yes, thanks. This is a dickey:

http://s7d5.scene7.com/is/image/NationalWholesale/8628_main?$Product284$

The garment portion of the photo could come in handy while cycling.

[dasgeh]

@bobco85 70156 wrote:

I think it was a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment, which I will define as follows: a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment is a situation where you see a person breaking the law in front of you to get ahead and yet you are still able to pass that person while being a PAL without any extra effort. Some examples of people you pass would be people who run red lights, blow through stop signs, and make dangerous passes on trails. During a (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie moment, you can think/say, “Go ahead and break the law. I’ll still catch you and pass you!”

(this term is waiting approval by (EDIT: Dickey) Dickie)

Like when you’re cruising down the Rosslyn hill, knowing that extra effort and red-light running isn’t necessary, because if you softpedal and wait for green at Nash street, you’ll hit the lights at both Fort Myer and Lynn just as they turn green, then a scofflaw flies down the hill past you and/or runs reds, just to wait at the light at Fort Myer and/or Lynn.

[americancyclo]

@dasgeh 70195 wrote:

Like when you’re cruising down the Rosslyn hill, knowing that extra effort and red-light running isn’t necessary, because if you softpedal and wait for green at Nash street, you’ll hit the lights at both Fort Myer and Lynn just as they turn green, then a scofflaw flies down the hill past you and/or runs reds, just to wait at the light at Fort Myer and/or Lynn.

Happened to me this morning!

[bobco85]

@dasgeh 70195 wrote:

Like when you’re cruising down the Rosslyn hill, knowing that extra effort and red-light running isn’t necessary, because if you softpedal and wait for green at Nash street, you’ll hit the lights at both Fort Myer and Lynn just as they turn green, then a scofflaw flies down the hill past you and/or runs reds, just to wait at the light at Fort Myer and/or Lynn.

I’d count that as a Dickie moment!

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