Re: Do Bicycle LED Lights Provide Light for Riding?

[wafflycat]

> wrote in message
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> My town requires bicyclists to have a bicycle light on when dark. I
> found an LED front light online for $15.00. This will will make me
> visable to traffic but will it provide any light for me? I sometimes
> ride in a very dark conditions but would only need a little light. If
> it doesn't provide any light can anyone recommd a light that does and
> is under $30.00?

Lights when riding at night are a seriously good idea. I'd simply not ride
at night without lighting. Without more detail of the individual light you
refer to it is impossoble to say whether it's any good at throwing a beam
for you to see by as opposed just prodiving a source of illumination that
you may be seen by... Where I live has little or no street lighting.

When cycling at night, my son uses three of these...

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/Default.aspx?Main=CategoryProducts.aspx&Cat=cycle&w=0&CategoryName=Lights%20-%20Front

and he has a helmet-mounted light (LED) too.

At the rear he has two *bright* LEDs and then he wears a reflective vest see

http://www.hivis.net/

And the bike also has reflectives on it.

I am similarly lit-up when cycling at night. The low-flying UFO approach
gives ample light to see with and be seen by.

Here in the UK, white lights are for the front, red lights are rear-facing.

Cheers, helen s

[Cully_J]

"wafflycat" > wrote in message
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> When cycling at night, my son uses three of these...
>
>
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/Default.aspx?Main=CategoryProducts.aspx&Cat=cycle&w=0&CategoryName=Lights%20-%20Front
>
> and he has a helmet-mounted light (LED) too.
>
> At the rear he has two *bright* LEDs and then he wears a reflective vest
see
>
> http://www.hivis.net/
>
> And the bike also has reflectives on it.



Smart kid! He'll probably have a long, fruitful life if he remains brilliant
like that.

Cully_J

http://comatimes.blogspot.com/

[wafflycat]

"Cully_J" > wrote in message
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>
> Smart kid! He'll probably have a long, fruitful life if he remains
> brilliant
> like that.
>
> Cully_J
>

Ta. Akchewallee, it's more like "Mustn't upset Mother From H*ll"...

To be honest, as far as teenagers go, he has not become that sub-species of
human the grunting teenage male. I am most astounded. And worried.... he
doesn't really rebel at all, and is remarkably sensible. P'raps he's really
17 going on 45 ;-) That or he's going to rebel late!

Cheers, helen s

[Fred]

"wafflycat" > wrote in message
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> "Cully_J" > wrote in message
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>> Smart kid! He'll probably have a long, fruitful life if he remains
>> brilliant
>> like that.
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>> Cully_J
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> Ta. Akchewallee, it's more like "Mustn't upset Mother From H*ll"...
>
> To be honest, as far as teenagers go, he has not become that sub-species
> of human the grunting teenage male. I am most astounded. And worried....
> he doesn't really rebel at all, and is remarkably sensible. P'raps he's
> really 17 going on 45 ;-) That or he's going to rebel late!
>
> Cheers, helen s
>

Or maybe he uses visine and peppermint drops. That's what I did. :)

[Mike Kruger]

"wafflycat" > wrote in message

> To be honest, as far as teenagers go, he has not become that sub-species
> of human the grunting teenage male. I am most astounded. And worried....
> he doesn't really rebel at all, and is remarkably sensible. P'raps he's
> really 17 going on 45 ;-) That or he's going to rebel late!
>
As a teenager, you are supposed to develop an independent identity. Maybe
your son is able to do this without rebelling, because of the amount of
space the adults around give him. Not every kid rebels.

Or, maybe, he's "rebelling" but you just don't see it because it's not
rebelling against YOU.

My older daughter (now 23) "rebelled" by coming first a vegetarian and then
a vegan. I sometimes pretended mild objection, just so she wouldn't think
Dad approved. In reality, though, if my kid wanted to do vegetables instead
of drugs, sex and alcohol I considered myself darned lucky.

My younger daughter went through a phase where she would (gasp) ride my
recumbent to high school, purely for the sheer perversity of it. This
bizarre behavior was certainly a form of asserting her identity, but from
Dad's point of view it wasn't "rebelling".

[Dave Larrington]

In article >, wafflycat
) wrote:

> To be honest, as far as teenagers go, he has not become that sub-species of
> human the grunting teenage male. I am most astounded. And worried.... he
> doesn't really rebel at all, and is remarkably sensible. P'raps he's really
> 17 going on 45 ;-) That or he's going to rebel late!

Sooner or later he'll discover BEER and GURLS though.

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
My only hope in life is to die before I get my comeuppence.

[wafflycat]

"Dave Larrington" > wrote in message
t...
In article >, wafflycat
) wrote:

> To be honest, as far as teenagers go, he has not become that sub-species
> of
> human the grunting teenage male. I am most astounded. And worried.... he
> doesn't really rebel at all, and is remarkably sensible. P'raps he's
> really
> 17 going on 45 ;-) That or he's going to rebel late!

Sooner or later he'll discover BEER and GURLS though.


Indeedee. I have warned him about the dangers of women. I've told him to
have naught to do with them until he's at least 30 ;-) As for drink, he has
partaken already - a glass of wine/beer with a meal is allowed in the
household.

Cheers, helen s