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SIX thousand and FIVE hundred lumens !!!!!!!!!!
On 10/8/2018 8:27 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie wrote: On Monday, October 8, 2018 at 4:16:43 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-10-08 16:05, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:06:53 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2018-10-07 17:08, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 15:02:19 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 10/6/2018 2:49 PM, Joerg wrote: [...] 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 :-) I wonder what the reaction would be if said bloke participated in a business meeting wearing bright orange knee socks. The subject was bicycle visibility, not business meetings.... To me a bicycle is not just a piece of sports equipment but foremost a transport vehicle. Wow, that's poignant. I've been commuting to school or work for 50 years and changing my clothes for the last 40. Even when I was a substitute teacher, I would ride to school with a backpack and change when I got there. There is always some place to change. I certainly wouldn't go to a client meeting in rain drenched or sweat drenched shirt -- or in shorts. Do you go to client meetings in t-shirts and shorts? ... but having said that I might comment that it is not difficult to change socks, even sitting on the roadside curb. And change all the other things sitting on a curb in a business park? I rather flick a little switch and have instant visibility. Upon arrival I flick it again, visibility turns off. Simple. Do you have a side light? I'd worry about that. Pull though an intersection and "whack." Where was your side light! You really should have a bright side light. -- Jay Beattie. There is also a great danger from large birds. One really should have an upward shining helmet lamp. I'm a bit ambivalent about snakes, my present thoughts that one is probably safe from snake bite in a metropolitan neighborhood. Heh. Two good friends of mine just completed a fairly short multi-day bike trip in Pennsylvania. They saw lots of rattlesnake warning signs, then finally did see a rattlesnake. So they rode around it. I guess Joerg would have scorched it to death with his headlight. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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