See Any Bikes?
Last night I had some time to kill which I spent walking around Kenmore square watching cyclists. This is what it looked like:
Okay, can you tell how many cyclists are in this scene?
No cyclists you say? Look again! There are seven.
See?
Of course you can’t. BECAUSE THESE FOLKS NEED TO GET SOME FRIKKIN’ LIGHTS!
And I’m not talking about those tiny anemic blinky lights that look like they came out of a grocery store toy vending machine.
Real hardy lights. Ones that I can see with my eyes.
And while you’re at it, get a bunch of them. You can never have too many lights.
Okay, maybe you can.
But you’ve all got a ways to go.
This kind of stupidity is pandemic in London, also, and with the recent change to British Standard Time, very on-topic:
http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/cycling-london/are-cyclists-using-dangerous-bike-lights/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southwarkcyclists/message/11591
I agree whole hardily. I have a 600 lumen light in front (though I keep it at 400 most of the time), two small blinky lights on the side (side visibility is good), an obnoxious flashing light in back and two more small lights on my helmet. This is in addition to the reflectors on my ankles, bike trunk bag and my backpack. And, since my jacket is (unfortunately) black, I have a reflector vest. Of course, that mean that there are 8 CR2032 batteries and 2 AAA I need to keep track of. My 600 lumen is USB rechargable
When riding at night, my two of my Road I.D. “fireflies” (red: blinking mode and blue: solid state mode) seem to cause some drivers a noticeable amount of concern since I’ve had several over the past year slow down and yell over to me because they thought I was a cop (from a distance); anything to help them be more conscious when behind the wheel.