Posting wackiness aside, it is a subject I grapple with living in Texas, but I am sure it's not a problem thst is exclusively ours. I think it certainly helps to have mote cyclists on the road so it gets more ingrained in people's minds to be looking for us, but early in my cycling days I recognized that a small blinking light was like a drunk beacon & riding with one on the street on a Friday or Saturday night was like putting a giant target on your back! Newer blinking lights with multiple flashers, that flash in a pattern seem to work better. In those younger days I would frequently ride with no light in sort of a stealth mode, hitting the sidewalks a bikeways as much as possible and basically putting myself where I could see them, but they could not see me. Works in smaller urban areas with a good grid of streets, but in a larger more densely populated areas on a roadish bike is too tedious & slows me down too much, I am rapidly moving towards dynamo driven bright lights, I think the brighter the light the less likely someone would be drawn to it, more than likely they would be repelled by it. On a side note I noticed riding the bike paths with a light really freaks out the geese & swans in the local parks, conditioned as they certainly are to associate bright lights with cars.
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