Originally Posted by
SugarMonkey
I saw this insane thing at Kohl's andhad to share.
It projects a bike lane that is somehow supposed to make it better for you among cars.
Originally Posted by
Viich
I've seen them, wouldn't pay the price they're asking (it was near $200). It's just a tail-light, if it was $25 instead of the $15 light I have now, I might use it, but !$!$!!!!
Originally Posted by
TenSpeedV2
12/10 would not use.
Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
This has been discussed to death here. You can buy them for < $10 on china sites. They're garbage. Even if they were visible (they're not) from a car, the car won't have any idea what it is.
just this past Thursday, I was visiting in Michigan and bought one of these, namely by NiteRider,costing about $50. It was a spontaneous buy, prompted by the salesman at the bike shop I was visiting. I thought it was an interesting feature, even as a conversation piece, and perhaps it will afford some additional visibility. I’ll be using it tomorrow for the first time for an early morning ride through urban and suburban Boston.
BTW, @TenSpeedV2, I recall you mentioned in a post that you are from Metro Detroit area as am I previously. FYA I bought this item from what I consider a very high quality bike shop, namely Fraser Bicycle on Utica Road north of 14 mile Road. And in reply to @Its-Just-Me, as I recall you ride on rural roads, and I perhaps those street markings might be more effective in the closer quarters of an urban commute, including on a dark MUP.
Not to be argumentative, and maybe it is a useless gimmick, but at least the flashing/steady rearward light looks brighter than my current Planet Bike, and even a slight advantage is worth it to me. Actually I probably wouldn’teven have replied to the “Your Most Recent Cycling-related Purchase,” thread on the Road Cycling Forum about this, but I serendipitously found this thread two days after purchase. I’ll post any significant comments after I ride with it.
One particularly useful rearward item IMO, I know exists but haven’t seen are flashing ankle lights other than those cumbersome D-cell strap-on yellow and red ankle lights of the 1970’s. I made my own a while back but the LED’s I clipped on to ankle bands fell off.
Originally Posted by
CB HI
Just another distracted driving device. But what makes it worse is that the cyclist is the one causing the distraction for the driver.
Is
not distraction the point of a rearward light to alert the unsighted/distracted driver? One of my main safety aphorisms is to make myself as visible as possible and assume nobody sees me.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 10-23-16 at 04:49 PM.