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  1. #16
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    Aug 2007
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    SF bay area
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    hi all/responding to Jermaine's question
    I checked out this thread again now that my morning ride is in the dark again, and evening ride will soon be in the dark!

    Here's what I am currently using for visibility (still a work in progress):
    1) two industrial light and motion lights, one on bars (the urban 400, which is on the low end of lumens for their line but seems to work pretty well for my commute) and rear red light.
    -I haven't gone to a helmet mounted light, but the ILM lamp came with an elastic strap for helmet mounting and their website has a whole section devoted to helmet mounts
    -I'm really happy with these lights which hold charge well and have a variety of intensity/blink or nonblink settings. plus charge indicator (I never remember to charge lights without this feature). I'm still using the niterider/cat eye light combo (see original post) on my rain/pannier bike, but I think my visibility- and ability to see the road- is fantastically better with the ILM lights

    2) lighter clothing- white arm warmers, white helmet, white vest, bright red gloves. I think this helps. My route has a few segments where I am going under freeways and I think the light helmet/clothes make me more visible even if I am not running my lights

    3) to address the "I feel invisible from the side" issue:
    -I got a set of sliver reflective bike wrappers -- reflective "wraps" that you can wrap around your top tube, seat tube, down tube, thus turning the entire tube into a reflective surface. I use these occasionally, and usually just use the top tube wrap. I think this helps, eg, when riding across a dark 4-way stop with cross traffic that isn't necessarily looking for a bike. The wraps are easy to put on and off, so I usually use just for my evening commute segment, which is where I have more traffic and more four-way stops with traffic coming at me from the sides. I don't use them in the am

    - the ILM lights project light to the side as well as towards the front- clever!

    4) I am considering putting more reflective tape onto my backpack, but haven't gotten to it yet.

    ANy new ideas from the list on this topic?
    Last edited by NadiaMac; 10-20-2013 at 08:38 AM.

 

 

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