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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <38124fd8-bb75-46a4-8d8e-0f32798ba130@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: alerting drivers to rear light failures Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:03:35 -0700 (PDT) References:  Lines: 20 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.163.209.43 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247414615 32065 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2009 16:03:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.163.209.43; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2308 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:716701

On Jul 12, 1:54=A0pm, "Adam Lea"  wrote: > If you are cycling along and notice a car which has a rear light/brake li= ght > failed is it reasonable to politely alert the driver to it if safe and > practical to do so, or would this be more likely than not to annoy them?

If it *did* annoy them, it would no doubt be because they had a view of cyclists as car-hating dickheads, and they would only have such a view because of those car-haters who claim to speak for cyclists as a whole even though they're more anti-car than pro-cycling (and there are many such idiots on URC).

If someone who you thought was a car-hating dickhead told you you had a bulb out, you wouldn't think they were doing it to be helpful; more likely that they were lying, they did the damage themselves, or they were just telling you about it so they could have a go. Whereas if someone who you thought was a reasonable person told you you had a bulb out, you'd thank them and get it fixed ASAP. So the answer to the question is that it depends on the driver's perception of cyclists in general.