Bikes 16 Feb 2006 02:19 pm
LED safety vest
One of my longish-term goals is to learn to ride a bike in traffic and start using it for running errands. After being hit by a van as a pedestrian, I’m fairly cautious about drivers. Cautious, and cynical. And I’ve noticed that the lighting in my neighborhood is not very bright, even on relatively busy streets. It’s hard to see bicyclists here.
So I was interested when Josh came home telling a story about a woman he’d seen with an effective LED safety vest. She got so many admiring requests for information about it, he said, that she’d started carrying around the product’s URL.
Should I start riding around after dark, this is definitely something I’d look into.
on 16 Feb 2006 at 4:10 pm 1.Josh said …
Yeah, those things are really noticeable. The one I saw was orange with yellow stripes, but I’d probably go for the yellow with white stripes version, myself.
on 16 Feb 2006 at 4:18 pm 2.desolina said …
you know what would be even cooler is if they set it up like a litebrite and you could interchange the little colored lights to say, a skull and crossbones, or a portrait of richard nixon.
on 26 Feb 2006 at 10:05 pm 3.Cam Sculpin said …
That would be great. Or a Terror-Eyes. I’m all about the striking fear, after all.