Answer for: Is it safe to bicycle at night?
#1 Bike smart, light up
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Nothing substitutes for paying attention to your surroundings and making sure you're seen.
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The law says only that you must have a headlight on your bike after dark, but just a headlight won't cut it. I say you absolutely need a taillight, too, and I highly recommend reflectors on your spokes and reflective clothing. I gotta get me one of those Illuminite jackets (the kind with the all-over, clear, reflective coating).
I believe the reflectors on the spokes are mandatory.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/61/8/61-8-607.htm
Someone should list Missoula bicycle laws in a readable (non-legalese) format somewhere ..
Ah, yes, I stand corrected. It appears that many, many reflectors are technically required. I am in violation! Don't know how I'll get reflectors to fit on my clipless pedals that are shaped like small doorknobs.
Don't forget the optional orange flag =]
Bike laws in non-legalese:
http://www.ci.missou.../bikelaws.htm
Maybe these guys could help: http://www.strans.org/missoula.html
Biking at night is the same as biking during the day--as long as you're not a dipshit.
I saw a guy riding (during the day) talking on a cell phone, no hands, no helmet, going the wrong way down the street.
You want to ride on the street, follow the fecking traffic laws. When I hit one of y'all becuase you didn't stop at the stop sign, I will not feel bad.
At all.
Wow. It takes quite a big person to admit that even if they splattered half of a little girl and all of her father all over the front of your car that you would have the heart to look in the girls eyes and say:
"I don't feel bad. At all."
NEWS FLASH: You're in a car. It's made of thousands of pounds of very hard material. Use it responsibly.
Whut david said ^.
100x over.
I do keep an eye out for bicyclists, mainly because most of them don't keep an eye out for themselves.
It's takes a LOT more distance to stop a car than a bike, and the stops signs are there for everyone's safety--you ignore them, you give up your right to complain about consequence.
So, if a little girl and her dad fly through a stop sign into the front of my car, yes. I will look that little girl in the eye and say, "Your dad didn't know much about personal responsibility, and taught you to ignore traffic signals. The gene pool is probably better off without him."
News flash: Cyclists have brains too, and they're much more complex machines than cars. Use them responsibly.