Fog?

[Hi Ho Silver]

I won't ride if it is foggy, despite the fact that I have a blinkie attached to my bike. My reasoning follows what I was told when I lived out in Arizona and had to beware of dust storms: If you stop and pull off the road and you have any lights on in that situation, cars behind you may think that your lights guide them along the road and you run the risk of being rear-ended. That's my main fear - being rear-ended because the driver doesn't have time to react.

[Catrin]

I won't ride if it is foggy, despite the fact that I have a blinkie attached to my bike. My reasoning follows what I was told when I lived out in Arizona and had to beware of dust storms: If you stop and pull off the road and you have any lights on in that situation, cars behind you may think that your lights guide them along the road and you run the risk of being rear-ended. That's my main fear - being rear-ended because the driver doesn't have time to react.

This is a good point! I appreciate all of the input, for sure. My route to work goes right down a main road, there is no neighborhood route that will work. There is a bike lane - which is really a specially striped shoulder. There isn't much traffic at 5:30am when I ride to work but still have to watch out for inattentive/sleepy drivers who may not be paying attention to the lane they are in when things are clear...