Unusual lighting
03-05-10, 01:50 PM
#1
Crazy ole cat lady
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 134
Bikes: One built up on a Nashbar frame, one built up from a Paramount frame
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Unusual lighting
I was driving into the Portland VA hospital parking garage a few weeks ago. At the same time there was a cyclist coming out the other doorway.
This guy had some form of lighting on his bike that I have never seen before. It was about the same color as a glow stick but was long enough to wrap in a spiral around both main and rear frame triangles. In spite of the color I have the impression that it wasn't glow sticks but something electrical.
Whatever it was it certainly made this bike highly visible. Any driver who hit this guy could never claim that he didn't see the bicycle.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Who makes it, who sells it?
This guy had some form of lighting on his bike that I have never seen before. It was about the same color as a glow stick but was long enough to wrap in a spiral around both main and rear frame triangles. In spite of the color I have the impression that it wasn't glow sticks but something electrical.
Whatever it was it certainly made this bike highly visible. Any driver who hit this guy could never claim that he didn't see the bicycle.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Who makes it, who sells it?
03-05-10, 07:19 PM
#2
Tawp Dawg
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Anchorage, AK
Posts: 1,221
Bikes: '06 Surly Pugsley, '14 Surly Straggler, '88 Kuwahara Xtracycle, '10 Motobecane Outcast 29er, '?? Surly Cross Check (wife's), '00 Trek 4500 (wife's), '12 Windsor Oxford 3-speed (dogs')
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
03-05-10, 07:46 PM
#3
Crazy ole cat lady
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 134
Bikes: One built up on a Nashbar frame, one built up from a Paramount frame
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Thanks GriddleCakes. That was just what the guy had.
REI's price is $25. For a winter commuter its well worth it.
REI's price is $25. For a winter commuter its well worth it.
Last edited by MadMabel; 03-05-10 at 07:49 PM.
03-05-10, 08:00 PM
#4
Tawp Dawg
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Anchorage, AK
Posts: 1,221
Bikes: '06 Surly Pugsley, '14 Surly Straggler, '88 Kuwahara Xtracycle, '10 Motobecane Outcast 29er, '?? Surly Cross Check (wife's), '00 Trek 4500 (wife's), '12 Windsor Oxford 3-speed (dogs')
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Yeah, I've seen a few of 'em riding around town after they were mentioned in the yearly winter biking article in the local paper. I already had the (expensive, heavier, and potentially distracting) Monkeylectric lights mounted, so I'm already as visible as I'm going to be from the side. But I feel better knowing that the Lady G'Cakes has decent side lighting as well.
03-05-10, 08:10 PM
#5
Pounding Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: In the Bag
Posts: 7,134
Bikes: A Home Built All Rounder, Bianchi 928, Specialized Langster, Dahon Folder
Mentioned: 25 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 5091 Post(s)
Liked 2,155 Times
in
1,302 Posts
Isn't that Kool!
03-06-10, 12:22 AM
#6
Insane Bicycle Mechanic
Originally Posted by MadMabel
Has anyone seen anything like this? Who makes it, who sells it?
BTW: what kind of cats you got, Mabel?
__________________
Jeff Wills
Comcast nuked my web page. It will return soon..
Jeff Wills
Comcast nuked my web page. It will return soon..
Last edited by Jeff Wills; 03-06-10 at 12:27 AM.
