As I said last week, vision and visibility are what I’m after in my bike lights. But enough of the theory, how do I make it work in practice?
“There is overwhelming evidence when children walk or cycle to school they are better off physically and in terms of their social and emotional wellbeing” –Todd Harper, VicHealth.
In southern latitudes, daylight saving has recently ended and commuting cyclists find themselves suddenly plunged into darkness in the early evening. It’s around this time every year that Bicycle Victoria rightly reminds riders to Light Up.
This post originally appeared on the 30 Days of Biking blog on 8 April 2010.
Have you tried 30 Days of Biking?
This entry was received as a comment to my earlier post, Gardiners Creek Trail: Mostly good, but it really deserves its own post, so here it is. The author, Zed, corresponds occasionally with this blog and is connected to the Boroondara BUG.
“A three hour bike ride means three hours of mental refreshment; it would take extreme concentration to achieve that by meditation or some like method.” –Dave Moulton
If only we could Boroondara-ise the whole trail…