If I taped ten thousand lightning bugs to my body I still would not put out
much light, Barely a dim glow if I was lucky. It is not the number of lights
that make you seen or not seen it is the brightness of the lights that matters.
If you put on Aircraft landing lights on the front of your bike and shot a
beam a half mile down the road I am sure you could not say "I always
behave like i'm invisible to cars no matter how much illumination I
have."
If you said "I have a bunch of low lumen flash lights on my bike and I can
not be seen by cars that have lots of lumens coming out of their headlamps, then
I would have to say DUH! Car drivers are looking for traffic
to have high lumen lights out on the road, if you wish to be treated like
traffic, act like traffic!
What would you think if a car had two little battery
powered flash lights or little bicycle blinkers where its head lamps were
supposed to be? Would you see the car if other brightly lit cars were
around it or would it be near invisible? Brian you should behave like you
are invisible when you have low lumen lights on your bike, because you are. You
can either whine about it or change your choice of lights.
I am asking you to Think, We are the Bicycle education leaders of our
communities.
Christopher Wallace