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Q: dont take this the wrong way
I ride a mountain bike to work every day,I leave in the morning when its dark,I have lights on my bike,2 on the front and one on the back so people can see me.
do Chinese people have a death wish?kids on bikes no lights,people ride E bikes no lights.are the rules of the road not taught to children?
I was riding home from the gym the other and this guy on his mountain bike was on my side of the road riding towards me and he almost ran into me,no lights.
I know this is China but I dont get it why no lights is .it lack of common sense? they cant afford to put a light on there bike?
do they think people can see them?
Riding your e-Bike, lights or not, isn't going to prevent the drunk dude in his Lexus killing you as he leaves the KTV after some paid adultery.
if you think lights are a problem, try going into any bike shop and buying reflectors to put on the wheels, extra reflectors, they will tell you that you only get what comes with the bike and they dont sell them,
i gave up looking in jinan and sold the bike to another teacher, and now only take the bus.
Ebikes have lights but people don't use them because it uses more power.
They think the lights will drain their batteries faster for Ebikes.
For reflectors it is just plain ignorance.
I am seeing more and more JUST starting to wear helmets and using turning signals on cars... Ebikes/Motorcycles... so give it another 5 years and I think maybe we will see changes.
I also rode MTB most of my time in Chinar. I got lazy and didn't pull of my lights everytime, eventually, yep, they were stolen. I had one bike stolen, it was a good job by the thief. I was chillin' , having a juice at one of those places somewhere out on one of the pedestrian malls of Bao'an... bike was maybe 5 meters away, but yeah, my back was to it. I didn't bother with the lock, it being right beside me and me just having a juice for 10 minutes. Turned back around and it was gone. lol...
note to others: lock your bike always and pull your lights off if unattended for more than a few minutes.
answer to your question: the average wang doesn't value them enuf (or understand the value) to outlay the capital. but the real bike-riders in SZ buy hi-dollar bikes and tons of hi-dollar gear to jazz it up.
*I kinda hate to say this, but yeah, imo common-sense is in short supply around here.
iWolf:
I can empathize with you. My most recent bike is called Lucky (number 7). The most talented thief stole, I think it was #3, while it was less than a metre from me in the moment I paid for a baozi. The street was quiet and he had simply vanished with it. What is annoying is the morons who steal the bells. I have lost about a dozen bells that were bought for 2RMB each from taobao. Seriously, what is the point of that?
Riding your e-Bike, lights or not, isn't going to prevent the drunk dude in his Lexus killing you as he leaves the KTV after some paid adultery.
TIC : if there is no documentary to explain why lights on a bike is a good thing, with lots of pictures of dead people & smashed bodies, no shit will be given. If you mention this on individual basis, it will be taken as a challenge, as a face-loss situation : "I will not put my light on just because you asked me to do it !!!".
Hotwater:
Documentaries only work if people watch them!
Example being car seats. Good friend of mine bought a car seat when his little one was born. It's hardly been used. Why? Because his Cantonese MIL sees no use in it as it takes a minute or two to fix in a car. There was a documentary about using car seats & what can happen to your child if you don't on Guangdong TV one day & his wife tried to get her Mum to watch it. She refused & walked out of the room.
DrMonkey:
By documentary, I mean something on the scale of what "Under the Dome" did, not some small piece made by a province-level TV channel. Imagine one hour, starting with various testimonies of families broken by their loss, and pictures of smashed bodies. Then, a bit of classical mechanics : solid mechanics, Newton's law, applied to a human body in a car. A bit of statistics of China vs. those barbarian countries were they use a belt and put their lights on. Serve an other round of gory pictures, and ask why people are so bent on killing each other because of their ignorance and stubbornness.
I like to wear a reflector vest at night. I get told I look like a construction worker because of it. I think that might actually lower my chances of survival.
I first came to China twenty years ago. Guangzhou is a lot better than it used to be. The people here will actually give way in for traffic at times. Go some places in China, and you will think that they are trying to hit you. We may never get used to it, but we do have to accept it since we are in their country. Now when they come to my country, I will tell--in Chinese--when they have forgotten to care about human life and obey the laws of the road.
I first came to China twenty years ago. Guangzhou is a lot better than it used to be. The people here will actually give way in for traffic at times. Go some places in China, and you will think that they are trying to hit you. We may never get used to it, but we do have to accept it since we are in their country. Now when they come to my country, I will tell--in Chinese--when they have forgotten to care about human life and obey the laws of the road.
what about the children that ride bikes.they have no idea about road sense.they ride in the middle of the road,they dont seem to care about cars.or know which side of the road to ride on.
parents dont set a good example for there children.road safety is not taught in kindergartens either.
if only Shenzhen would take on what Hong Kong has done.
