SIX thousand and FIVE hundred lumens !!!!!!!!!!

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:02:19 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 10/6/2018 2:49 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-10-06 08:38, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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Why on earth does someone riding a two lane highway with no
intersections think they have to have a white light facing forward? It's
a paranoia.


Simple:

1. It prevents a large vehicle driver from overtake another large
vehicle and then the driver seeing the cyclist when it's too late.

I have other ways of preventing that horrible, tragic event. One of them
is riding in the real world, not the fantasy "worst case scenario" world.

It's not that I've _never_ had an oncoming motorist pull out to pass. It
has happened perhaps two times in over 40 years of riding. And I've
never had to leave the pavement to avoid tragedy. Hell, I've never even
had to move onto the shoulder.

2. It causes oncoming motorists to see the cyclist much earlier and, for
example, if a big semi comes they can pull a bit to the right so the
semi can give the cyclist wide berth.

I do NOT believe any practical light allows a motorist to see a cyclist
_much_ earlier. In almost every case, I've seen on-road cyclists before
I noticed that they had a light. And in no case did I see the light
early enough to make any practical difference. You're fixating on a
superstitious talisman, imagining benefits that don't exist in real life.


I think I've mentioned seeing the bloke on a bike wearing bright
orange knee socks nearly a kilometer away :-) I remember the orange
socks but can't remember whether he had a light on his bike or not :-)
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Cheers

John B.