"The late, great Sheldon Brown has a wonderful, if lengthy, article on this very topic <http://www.sheldonbrown.com/reflectors.html>."
Correction: this article was not written by Sheldon Brown, but instead by John Schubert. Apologies. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Martin Lund <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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