| Re: Crashed day before yesterday
dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
||| I've got a 10W lamp on my front and a blinky red light for the rear.
||| Looks like your bike could be used to light a baseball field in a
||| pinch!
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|| I did a spot of night riding last night. I had:-
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|| Front
|| 2x Cateye HL-EL300
|| 1 x helmet-mounted white LED
|| 1 x flashing white LED
||
|| Rear
|| 1 x rack mounted *bright* red LED
|| 1 x ordinary British Standard red rear light
|| 1 x red flashing LED
||
|| On self and/or bike
||
|| Reflectors on wheels (spokes) & pedals
|| reflective gilet
|| reflective arm bands
|| reflective bands round ankles
||
|| A local spotty youth, as a cycled by, cried out "F**king h*ll!
|| You're not going to get run over looking like that!" Which was the
|| general point of the exercise ;-)
||
|| Traffic did give me a wide berth...
You're likely better seen at night. Your only concern is seeing what is
coming at you. Good idea about the helmet mounted light. I'm still
planning to get one so I'll feel confident about riding at night.
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