What rear lighting do you recommend?
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From: SW. Sacramento Region, aka, down river
Bikes: Giant OCR T, Trek SC
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
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




