[BikeLongmont] November meeting minutes

[Richard Masoner]

Hi Nenad, I'm glad you're okay. All reflectors and most bicycle
lighting doesn't help side visibility. After too many near-hits at
night during the winter, I finally bit the bullet and bought a bright
helmet light. I turn my head toward potential conflicts and -- viola
-- I'm visible. I've had people tell me they thought I was a car.

The last time I was hit on bike by a car was in 1987, and that was at
night in spite of front and back lights.

So, speaking of lights, if somebody wants to borrow some for the
Christmas parade, I have a yellow Xenon strobe and couple of white LED
blinkies and a few red LED blinkies I can lend out. Contact me
off-list. You supply the batteries.

I'm hoping everybody had a blessed Thanksgiving and enjoyed the
*gorgeous* weather.

RFM
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:36:15 -0700, Nenad <nenad at bicyclelongmont.org> wrote:

> I had two runins with vehicles in last 24 hours - yesterday night going
> home from work and this morning going to work. In both cases, they were
> entering Diagonal from the right and did not notice poor little me.
> 
> The guy in a minivan yesterday was at least in darkness (I am sure my
> bike lights blend nicely with the river of cars in the background). The
> guy in the small SUV coming out of Xilinx entry was either just not
> paying attention or decided not to bother stopping.