Originally Posted by
donalson
lights are great and you can get some stuff that is amazing for $25... I was using mine in the summer when it was 105+ heat index in the day...
Good point. I started getting up before dawn to get in a ride before work this summer when it got very hot.
I have a 6.5 loop on very nice roads with little traffic. It gets kind of boring doing laps of it; however, riding in the dark livens things up a lot.
LED lights are amazing both in the amount of light produced and how long the batteries last. I usually ride with two headlights (one on the bars and another on the helmet) and at least 2 tail lights. Nice to have some redundancy if one fails.
I have one bike set up for night riding with all the nerdy reflectors and plan on getting tires with reflective sidewalls when the tires need changing.
I don't mind the dark. Rather it's the cold that gets to me. I'm a wimp at temps below 40°F and hit the gym then.