Here's what my bike looks like in the dark. It has reflecting sidewall tires, along with reflector tape on my luggage container, and one reflector in the front spokes. Within a week I hope to have my new reflecting rim on the rear, and can use this photo for comparison.
In addition to this, I have reflector tape on my boots, pants, jacket and gloves. I run two LED headlights; one with a powerful steady beam and the other pulsing, and I have two bright LED tail lights pulsing at different rates. These were turned off for this photo but wouldn't show in this direction anyway. I also have two flashing LED lights in my front spokes that are activated by motion.
All of this lighting is intended to make me more visible to motor vehicle traffic. I suspect the reason a cyclist was killed in Skyway last week was partly because he was not running enough lights in the early morning darkness.
3 comments:
Wow! That is pretty spectacular! I didn't know they made tires with reflecting sidewalls. That is cooler than cool!!
Unfortunately, I'm afraid that idiots like the driver of the Lincoln Towncar who would brush past a cyclist who is already traveling at the speed limit, to satisfy his so-called importance that he is driving a big locomotive which is capable of exceeding that -- or any other speed limit.
Be careful, whatever you do, where ever you ride -- there are more octogenarians out there, some of whom don't pay attention to what is to the right or to the left, especially if it is smaller than a locomotive.
I was told last night that the dead man was an avid cyclist and he had lots of lights on his bike. So lots of lights are not a guarantee of safety.
So, like Grumpy says, we need to be extra careful, both as cyclists and as motorists.
And, you can go MonkeyElectric if you like.
http://store.monkeylectric.com/MonkeyLectric_LED_Bike_Wheel_Light_p/m133s.htm
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