Many modern bicycle taillights have lenses which also serve as reflectors if the light is turned off. While stand-alone reflectors have the advantage of not requiring a power source, they have the disadvantage of requiring certain circumstances in order to work well or to work at all. The late, great Sheldon Brown has a wonderful, if lengthy, article on this very topic<http://www.sheldonbrown.com/reflectors.html> .
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:18 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Kevin Luecke [email protected] wrote on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:26:01 > -0500: > > > Just a quick update: the Bike Fed is working on legislation that will > tweak > > some existing laws to be more bicycle friendly: > [snip] > > - Legal use of a rear light instead of a reflector (currently you have > to > > have a reflector even if you have a light) > > What is so "bicycle UN-friendly" about requiring reflectors? I am not > aware of any good reason to drop the requirement. I would speculate that > someone favouring this step backward would dismiss the reflector as being > redundant for someone using a rear light. Well, so what if it is? If a > reflector is always on a bicycle, you have at least that much, as a backup > if nothing else, for when the light output isn't sufficient for conditions > or batteries run down. > > Of course someone bicycling at night should use lights (front and > preferably also rear), but why would you want to drop the additional > visibility benefit of a reflector? Unless I am missing some completely > different reason for a change, I hope BFW will re-consider the inclusion of > this item on its agenda and just leave that existing requirement in place. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > Microsoft® > Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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