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Old 09-12-22, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by genec
... my 30 years of commuting taught me that 3 lights in vertical line, facing back were a good indicator of "something unusual" to motorists. I tended to have a helmet flasher, seatback flasher and a strong steady light on my rack. I think any combination of that, with at least one steady light are pretty good for indicating "cyclist."
Three red lights are good, more are better; day or night. Better yet if the vertical lights sway a bit left and right. It creates quite a sight at night, quite useful when riding on 55mph highways without the benefit of a useful shoulder.



Originally Posted by Daniel4
How did you find the drivers' response to the three vertical lights? Were they consistant? From other threads, 'unusual' confuses drivers and you just might be a visual target.
"other threads" are often posted by people re-posting nonsense taken out of context from an alleged "study" that somebody read about somewhere on the Internet; or stuff they dreamed up all by themselves.
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