The bar end lights are good if you are not wider then your bars (G)
The new cateye goes up to 100 hours runtime the 600 goes about 30 plus the new one has leds in the ends so it has 180 degree visibility. LEDS have pretty poor side visibility they only go about 15 degrees. This is why I chose it. I have the best rear light a liteman xenon flasher. It actually puts out light. And it has 180 visibilities. But it eats up batteries in 5 hours or less so I chose the new cateye.
The headlight is not bad but you have to buy batteries or rechargeables.
I got a bit carried away on my headlight. It’s not too expensive to play with home made stuff. http://www.bulbsource.net/ gives you a huge choice on lighting at dirt cheap prices.
I ran a few bulbs in the mr11 size and mr16. I played with them at regular voltage and overvolted up to 16v. Right now I run an mr16 solux 4700k bulb. It is a bit much at 35 watts but man does it put out the light. I can light a whole lane and three others with less light. It’s more then I need but I like the beam pattern that I can’t find in a 20 watt bulb.
So right now I have the new cateye on back on a post (for my bent) and on the front of the post a sparky xenon flasher (a cool little guy that gives you three color choices in a small package) and my headlight. The bike has reflective strips on it and soon my black helmet will have black reflective tape (G)

I use one or more rear automotive reflectors in addition to a rear blinky for rear visibility. I've had a few blinkies fail on me; I depend on the reflectors as backup and to provide more points of reference to drivers. (A couple blinky brackets broke off the bike when I hit potholes; another popped its cover and spewed its batteries on the road.) Note that I use automotive reflectors, not bike reflectors; most rear bike reflectors are way too small and dim, only about 20% as bright as an amber automotive reflector. My two commuter bikes have one amber reflectors and one red reflector on the back of the trunk rack. A red blinkie is attached to the trunk rack as well.

I've done some experiments with visibility to overtaking drivers; under car headlamps at medium to short distance the automotive reflectors are at least as bright as the blinky. The blinky is more noticeable at very long distances or at an angle. My best blinky is a Nite Rider tail lamp.

Pedal reflectors are also pretty bright. I use reflective dots on the back of my SPD-equipped shoes. I've also put reflective tape on the back of some of my helmets; this is quite visible at a distance.

-Steve Goodridge

lots of reflectors help but the tape is pretty practial over hard reflectors.

Thank you all for the advise, it was helpful in sorting out options.

This is my setup:

1. flash back handle bar lights. And yes not wider than bars, besides they are lower than the blowing jacket.

2. Cateye LD1000, 10 led's running on 2 AA batteries. You can set the top row steady and bottom rolling if you light. It is bright to eyes within a few feet. I could not test on street last night as it was snowing.

3. Trunk rack has reflective surfaces and most of the time will have the trunk rack attached.

4. Will add in a bit the steath black daytime, white at night tape around the rims for quicker recognition when coming at an angle.

5. Decided not to go with helmet light as it seems too hard to attach to my helmet. Instead will add a reflective shell later.

I may make changes later. First I want to have a good night and see both how well my wife can see at night and to take some photo's so I can see what it looks like.

Again, thanks for the suggestions. I would have missed both the rim tape and the flash back options.

Huff