EXACTLY!!!! There are very few people where I live that use even reflectors not alone front and rear lights! Really there is no excuse today for not using lights because LED technology has made this very affordable for everyone. I asked the police captain here about why they don't give citations to riders that ride without lighting or reflectors, and he said that if a cyclist is hurt or killed at night without lights or reflectors it will automatically be the fault of the cyclist regardless who was really at fault.

In the 10 years that I've lived here and of all the cyclists I've seen I am the most lit up rider in the front and the third most lit up in the rear...big deal, out of 1000 or more cyclists that I've seen only about 25 to 50 even had lights! An maybe another 50 that had reflectors. I do know there is a single track group that goes out at night and those guys have some really strong front lights, but they don't travel the roads or bike paths, they park their vehicles at the single track entrance and ride from there.