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06-13-2007, 08:29 PM #1
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06-13-2007, 09:06 PM #2
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Surgtech, thanks for this thread!
I've been thinking about lights, and said to DH one day when we'd been to a commuting seminar at REI, which made HIM think maybe I should have some lights, even though I don't commute (yet), "I want a blinky light belt I can wear around my butt, with left and right turn signals."
He said, "They make that?"
Like, yeah, right! But I can dream, right?
How much blinky light does a girl need on the back?
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06-14-2007, 11:18 AM #3
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Knotted - No I haven't bought a road bike, still riding my Trek 7100. I'm still looking. One LBS tried to sell me a Trek FX 7.2 but I said something about flat bar road bikes being uncomfortable(for hand positions) and they said 'yes, that's true'. It was raining so I couldn't test ride any.
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06-14-2007, 11:52 AM #4
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If I could have blinky lights the rear, positioned so it was clear I'm a vehicle, with controls up front so they work like turn signals, I'd want two. Then I'd have turn signals that worked at night! That would be awesome. (My dream light setup would be a pair of brake lights, a pair of turn signals and a trio of running lights including one on my helmet. I'd need a helluva generator hub to make that realistic tho)
Originally Posted by Kano
All the blinky lights I've seen so far have a button control attached to the light. It's hard to reach the button while you're on the bike, and the continuous blinking is confusing when I'm walking or in a car. A blinky light just doesn't register as "bike" to me. So even tho my taillight has blinkymode, I never use it. A steady light is more likely to register to me as bike or motorcycle.
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