> LIGHTS

One thing that tends to annoy me as much as a lack of lights is cyclists whose rear lights blink constantly: it says "look at me! look at me!" in a thoroughly distracting manner, like a hyper child in a supermarket. It's even less excusable in broad daylight, when it distracts drivers from (eg) oncoming vehicles.

One (erm) cyclist round our way used to specialise in rigging up what appeared to be a red Christmas tree of das blinkenlights on the back of his bike, about three feet across and five feet high. Quite what the bus drivers stuck behind him used to call him is happily not recorded.