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Old November 15th 03, 06:31 PM
Rich Clark
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Default Break lights turn lights and handle bar lights


"Truepurple" wrote in message
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Im looking for a few different light kinds.

Break lights that come on when you stop on a bike.


Brake lights on cars are effective because drivers are trained to know what
they mean. Nobody would know how to interpret brake lights on a bike. It
would be foolish and dangerous to depend on them to influence the behavior
of following traffic.

Turn signal lights you can use instead of sticking your arm out. Im
not as concerned about looking goofy as much as the difficulty and
risk associated with taking ones hands off the bar and sticking
there arm out.


Same argument as above. If anything, moreso: to the extent that drivers are
trained to interpret blinking lights on bikes, it's to interpret them as
"slow moving traffic," not as a turn signal.

If you can't handle your bike with one hand, practice is indicated.

Lights at the end of handle bars for increased side visability


As someone else noted, reflectors on moving parts are more likely to be
effective for this. The small single-LED lights mentioned in another post
are available, but they aren't very bright -- and in the glare of automobile
headlights, will be washed out completely compared to good reflectors.

If you really want side-mounted lights, you'd do better to get multiple-LED
blinkies and clip them to your clothing or helmet or something facing
sideways.

RichC


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