There was a sweeping curve to the left so that I could not see to the right hand side of the cars in front of me. The traffic was slowing down. She was visible briefly between the two cars in front of me for a second probably. But there was not much contrast to see her against a gray concrete wall to her right. So basically as I was slowing to almost a stop, I saw her as she came into sight as the car in front of me passed her. Also all the cars had their brake lights on adding to the glare factor. That may have added a faction of a second to the time when I could see her too. If she had a good blinker I could have actually seen her right through the windows of the cars. And If she had a good headlight I might have seen some glare on the wall through the windows of the car in front of me. It's hard to know all the factors, all a cyclist can do is add things that help. That's how I think about it, you can't control everything, but you can control what you have on your bike and body. If she had taken the whole lane and had either reflectors or a red blinker I could have seen her earlier as I looked up the row of cars. Being on the right was not very good. Plus if the car behind her matched her speed she would have been protected from the rear.

As for my vision.. she had a red road bike with white lettering, bladed spokes probably Ksyriums, a rack with a rack trunk, a white helmet, black tights, blue vest over a long sleeve jersey, and had a very nice figure~!