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Thanks for the tip on the rubber Hotshot Micro mount. Does the Micro mount pivot as well? If it does I'm getting one of those mounts for my Hotshot 150.
Yes, the micro mount has a phillips screwdriver adjustable pivot. I set it so it loints straight back from my seapost and then when riding in a group I flip it over so it loints down at the ground so as not to blind other riders. It is bright. Go with the Hotshot 150 for $50 and add the optional $5 rubber mount. it'll cost $20 more then the new hotshot micro 50, but it's your lofe is worth it and it might just save it.
That's pretty much how a buddy of mine at work got killed only he was on a motorcycle. I truly believe that a good daylight strobe can perhaps save many a life, particularly at intersections where people are turning and or if there is not a traffic signal... then even more important. On occasion though, it really won't make a difference. Just the other day I was driving my work vehicle down a busy multi-lane road and some A-**** just pulls out right in front of me. Thankfully I have super great reflexes and very good driving skills. I still don't know how I managed to "Not" hit them. I swerved and braked at the same time with cars all around me. I guess I just got lucky. Point I'm making is, "There are idiots out there driving that must be half blind. Do what you can to make yourself seen if riding a bike on a public road. Take nothing for granted. I turn all my strobes on whenever going through busy or dangerous intersections, day or night. That said I think it's probably saved my butt on a number of occasions. ( I can use a helmet and bar strobe if needed ).
Yeap. What i have learned is as follows.
1) life is precious and can be gone in the blnk of an eye. You have to accept this risk when riding on the road as with life. This sits most uncomfortable with me as my SO and the love of my life has been hit and was almost killed. I HAVE lost friends, people I have ridden with and people I have know to getting hit by cars.
2) Buy the $50 light. Use it. Your life is worth it. Recommend others do the same. Their lives are worth it.
3) Think about using a camera. Cyclists with cameras are changing the game.
Right now in ohio a lady is trying to get the death of a touring cyclist she hit removed from her permanent record. She said the sun was in her eyes and got only a $1000 fine. The cyclist is dead. Gone. Never coming back. A 20 something riding across the US. I met her on the day she died and may even have been the last person to speak to her. Yet this lady after only five years wants her death expunged from her permanent record so she can get cheaper carinsurance... or maybe so she can hit and kill another cyclist with absolutely zero reprecussions due having hit and killed one already. I'm mad as hell. And though I don't carry a gun some driver some day may cross that line and I may have to defend myself by whatever means necessary. I do not find the political climate of deprioritizing cyclists lives for the sake of drivers convenience acceptable. The 3 feet laws are at least a start, but the reality is horrible, inexcuseable and unreconcileable.