Agreed on flashing lights. I only ever use them at low setting, on low light DAY rides. Example, riding under trees on cloudy day.
But at all but lowest setting they can be blinding and disorienting. EricF Not riding yet this day due to rains Golden Lake Ont On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 09:16 John A. Bennett <jabin...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you wear a helmet, please do your fellow cyclists a favor and *don't *mount > one of those blinding flashing strobe lights to the front of it. > > They don't help you see, and they disorient the rest of us. > > In fact, please don't mount blinding strobe lights to your bicycle, > either. > > John in Portland, Ore. > > On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 7:18:20 AM UTC-7, SeanMac wrote: >> >> I certainly do not want to start (another) helmet war, however I recently >> stumbled on an interesting article in the Washington Post about helmets and >> cycling injuries >> >> Only 22 percent of bicyclists in severe accidents were wearing helmets. >> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-big-number-only-22-percent-of-bicyclists-in-severe-accidents-were-wearing-helmets/2019/09/13/81046e72-d56a-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html> >> >> The story is rather short, but this is the key line to me: >> >> "Bicyclists who were wearing helmets when accidents occurred generally >> had less severe injuries, spent less time hospitalized, including shorter >> stays in intensive care, and were less likely to have died as a result of >> the accident, according to researchers’ analysis of the data >> <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699052.2019.1650201>, >> published in the journal Brain Injury." >> >> Sean >> Buffalo, NY >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1436b166-f7d8-4fb1-8334-78dad057beb3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1436b166-f7d8-4fb1-8334-78dad057beb3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAOGTYJB-fZb5YwF%2BPs9JCUD%2B5q4YZYwQxw%2BbYwHOb9cUw-21nw%40mail.gmail.com.
