Ditto. My favorite ride in the dark here found me following a coyote
for a few hundred yards as s/he trotted down the path, just at the edge
of my high-beam. Keep this section of the path dark.
HARRY W READ wrote, On 10/16/09 3:43 PM:
I say no additional lighting. We've got enough electric lights in this world.
Harry Read
----- Original Message -----
From: Jesse Wickizer <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Southwest Path- is it getting too silly at night?
To: [email protected]
*"If we are taking an informal poll here, and it seems we are, I vote
no
additional lighting on the path. Spend that money elsewhere."*
Agreed.
If you're riding at night you should have a light anyway. A bright
light not
only helps on the dark paths, but helps cars see you better.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Linda Kietzer <[email protected]>wrote:
I have that same feeling of exhilaration on that path at night with
only my
bikelight on a cloudless winter night. The downhill trip is
superfun. But I
like that sorta thing.
If we are taking an informal poll here, and it seems we are, I vote
no
additional lighting on the path. Spend that money elsewhere.
--- On *Fri, 10/16/09, Mark Evans <[email protected]>* wrote:
From: Mark Evans <[email protected]>
Subject: [Bikies] Southwest Path- is it getting too silly at night?
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 2:01 PM
Eh --
I've been riding that stretch from Monroe to Glenway for several years,
year round pretty much. Getting a good bright light is just a good
idea (and
cheaper than having them wreck the stillness with sodium vapor). I
got the
basic Dinotte and it works great, rechargeable AA, extra holder so I
always
have backup.
http://store.dinottelighting.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=dinotte&StoreType=BtoC&Count1=527248561&Count2=444388985
I note that during the fall/winter, when it it cloudy (a condition that
exists a good portion of the time) that ambient house and neighborhood
lights seem to reflect off clouds and illuminate the trail pretty
well. On
clearish moonless nights, it's just downright fun, with skittering cats,
twinkling starts, and idiots on bikes with no lights making for an
adrenalin-rush on the commute home.... But with a bright light, I
can see it
all.
it is indeed a bit of stillness in the midst of the city that I'd rather
not lose to public lighting.
and oh yeah... does anyone else think that tall upright riders with
helmet
lights coming at you in the dark on a path look like some weird alien
headless horseman sorta visage?
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