Maybe reflective paint for a Ghost bike .. Ghosts dont even need saddles ..

Here's a 4+ year old product with some dissatisfied customers: Go Brightz LED Bicycle Light.

I mention it because this is one of the few products tailored for active side lighting mounted on bicycle tubes: they give you a row of amber LEDs mounted in a package with a AAA battery holder and holes to zip tie it to the sides of your down tube. It would be nice if some cycling company designed a more elegant, updated version of these.

Stumbled upon this amber side light. It's based in UK, though. Beside the side visibility, it being amber color is appropriate as a side light:

Brightside Bike Light - BRIGHTSIDE

My new favorite is the Orfos Flare tail light https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...SL._SX522_.jpg . It is almost as bright from the side. I also wear a reflective orange vest at night. https://rusa.org/Images/Neiko%20safe...full%20zip.jpg

I use wraparound blinky's underneath my Seat post facing rear on the seat tube and a white blinky facing towards the ground on my top tube. These, along with a steady lit headlamp and a rear blinky on the back of my rack really keeps me visible from the side. In the winter I also have a helmet light that I can use for additional visibility to either side.

I've been using reflective bike vests with waistbands forever. A few years ago I added 2 Planet Bike blinkies to the waistband, one at each forward corner of my hip. They work. It is very obvious that drivers see them and wait to see what I am going to do. Soon after I started using them, I rode home in the dark having forgotten my headlight. Two left turning drivers waited for me to clear intersections.

Ben

If every person who rode a bike at night just wore a reflective vest I would estimate their safety factor would jump 10 fold. Reflective gear is vastly under-rated.

So you forgot the main lamp...What, no back-up? Shame on you ( ;-) ) If I forgot to charge my front lamp I'd still have my helmet torch and a front blinkie ...well, if you're using two blinkies mounted to your vest/waist I suppose that is as visible as a standard front blinkie. Got's to have a back-up "to see" lamp though.

I rode 25 years without a headlight after I hit an opening car door using a genertor light in 1968. Realized that a light that weak wasn't noticed by drivers and served to make me think I might be seen. Didn't change my riding until the halogen lights came out that were bright enough to both see by and be seen. Riding home after dark on roads I know like the back of my hand and ride several times a week with no headlight isn't a big deal. Just have to remember that it is back to the old days for the next 10 miles.

I don't load my bikes, especially the fix gears, down with redundancies. To keep things simple, I have one good headlight that goes onto the bike as I need it. Just one thing to keep charged. My workhorse fix gear has about 10' of reflecting tape on it. All my bikes have rear blinkies. I regularly wear that vest. Nearly all my jerseys and riding jackets are yellow. My helmet is white. My backpack has a lot of reflecting silver tape on it. I can forget any one item and the odds of me getting home intact are still excellent.

Ben

I use this stuff. I stick all over everything but at the same time not have it take away from the look of my bike. It's on the sides and back of my shoes, I put the white on the white decals on my wheels, and it's on the silver brake calipers. Barely noticeable until headlights hit it.

https://www.thetapedepot.com/product...d-77068-a.html

I've been using those clip on spoke reflectors for a few months now. They have held on tight. I haven't been able to look at my bike from a distance in the dark, but when I walk up to it, these things are often reflecting strongly into my eyes. For the money, you can hardly go wrong.

These foam 3M spoke reflectors are very good. For a while they were inexplicably expensive in the US while dirt cheap in Europe. By now they came down in price to an acceptable level.

Best side visibility I've seen locally are wheels festooned with LEDs. Those are really eye-catching. The cyclists said the wheel LEDs were pretty cheap via ebay.

I found that the MEC Gridlock LED Bicycle Light Set set works really weell becausethe rear light is visible for well ovrr 180 degress. HTe only thing is that if it's really dark you need to put tape on the top of the clear lense on the fron light so that the light doesn't blind you. You get both lights and batteries for less than $15.00 Canadian.

Cheers

MEC + mountain Equipmey Co-op