Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Yawn. Over in the A&S forum a cyclist was hit in broad daylight with a flasher going. At very, very high speed. I am amazed they survived at all. While nice, it is not essential that oncoming traffic see you, it is more important that trailing traffic see you, but it is even more important that you as a cyclist do not act unpredictably and force a motorist to accommodate your erratic actions. Because they may not, whether they 'see' you or not.
Do you know how many times my flashing front light has caught the attention of a driver who rolls up to a stop sign on an adjacent street only to slam on their brakes preventing a T-bone situation? Drivers are looking for other cars (large objects), they are not sensitized to looking for someone on a small bike moving at a relatively high rate of speed (as compared to a walker or jogger). You can see their face do a double take before they apply the brakes.