Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
These days, it means putting one or two fully charged bright blinking lights on the rear and one on the front, placing a GoPro on the handlebar (facing rear) to facilitate finding the person who eventually kills or maims me, wearing a Spot so that it is easy to find the ditch I get knocked into, bringing a cell phone and wearing reflective ankle bands and a hi-viz reflective vest. Sure, most of this stuff wasn't even dreamed of forty years ago. Even if it was, no cyclist would have thought any of it would be deemed necessary for a simple bike ride in unincorporated areas.
And relatively few cyclists today deem all that glowing paraphernalia and recording equipment necessary for a simple bike ride anywhere, especially in daylight. Don't fool yourself and think the posts on A&S and some of the other BF lists represent anything but fringe cyclists' preferences.