I'm glad you decided to walk instead of biking in traffic without a light!
Here's what I do:
I have a headlight and rear blinky mounted on my helmet (that way I always have something). I also carry a headlight that mounts on the front of the bike and keep a rear blinky light on my backpack or fiddle case, or whatever I'm wearing on my back (it used to get mounted on a bracket... but that never worked well for me).
During the winter, when I know I'll be biking a lot in the dark, I have these rod-like blinky lights my mom gave me that I attach to my backpack (2 red ones in the back, 1 yellow one on each side, 1 white one in the front). That last one is kind of overkill, but was necessary when I was routinely biking home after class around 9pm.
I like having the helmet lights and the bike-mounted lights because I know that even if one fails, there's a back-up already on. (It's also useful to have one light on the road and the other wherever you are looking.)
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Date: 2010-05-25 01:51 pm (UTC)Here's what I do:
I have a headlight and rear blinky mounted on my helmet (that way I always have something). I also carry a headlight that mounts on the front of the bike and keep a rear blinky light on my backpack or fiddle case, or whatever I'm wearing on my back (it used to get mounted on a bracket... but that never worked well for me).
During the winter, when I know I'll be biking a lot in the dark, I have these rod-like blinky lights my mom gave me that I attach to my backpack (2 red ones in the back, 1 yellow one on each side, 1 white one in the front). That last one is kind of overkill, but was necessary when I was routinely biking home after class around 9pm.
I like having the helmet lights and the bike-mounted lights because I know that even if one fails, there's a back-up already on. (It's also useful to have one light on the road and the other wherever you are looking.)