#30DaysofBiking Day 14 Lights?!

It's no the best picture, but I was riding my bike. It was getting dark,
and I hadn't taken the planned picture at the Blue Door Pub.

I realize it's way to early in the cycling season for rants, but this one comes to you from my ride home from a lovely night out. Four of us emerged on Longfellow Blue Door Pub. Since I wanted to ride twenty miles and our meeting time was 5:45, I decided to bike in and bike home. My bike ride in was amazing. It's finally nice (windy as hell but nice). In fact, I wore the tank top that I had randomly purchased at Target when I was buying candy for tomorrow's Poem in Your Pocket Day (not the official, it's really next week, but we'll be testing). Anyway, my ride home was the dusk to night phase. Of course, I had my lights since I knew it could get dark on my way home. I was surprised by the number of cyclist with no head light and/or tail light. It was frightening because I couldn't see them coming towards me. Do they realize no one (other cyclists or CARS) can see them? As I was riding, I wanted to scream, "Get some lights." It's too bad I couldn't round them all up and give them a mini-lesson on bike lights. If you would turn your lights on at night while driving your car, you should have both head and tail lights on your bike. It's an easy mini-lesson to teach because I could show them my lights to demonstrate the importance.

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