Martin Lund [email protected] wrote on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:10:33 -0500:
> Many modern bicycle taillights have lenses which also serve as reflectors if > the light is turned off. Good point. Then maybe the "tweak" ought to be to define the required reflectors as including lights that meet the required reflector specifications (when turned off). In other words, if your light is a reflector in addition to being a light, it ought to qualify. > 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> I doubt that many of us would disagree that people should use rear lights as a more effective way to be visible at night, and the article makes a good case for using lights rather than RELYING ON reflectors alone. But that's not the same thing as saying that you SHOULDN'T have reflectors at all. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
