Lighten Your Ride 💡
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You can lighten your ride with, well, lights!
If you must ride in the dark, that’s very important. Being seen is as important as seeing. Often enough I’ve seen riders out there in the dark; wearing dark clothing; without lights; and with minimal reflective material. They’re hard to see until I’m too close for comfort. And if that results in my running into them, they’ll blame me!
Suppose it starts to rain? That reduces visibility for everyone; cyclist or not. Turn on those lights; and pull out the rain suit!
You can “lighten” your ride in other ways, too; for instance, by practicing riding light in the saddle. I’ve got to get back to such work; I’ve been terribly lazy. Yesterday I tried a little pedaling out of the saddle. I hadn’t done that for a long time, either; and what skill I had developed was almost entirely gone.
Now that I don’t have to ride before daylight, I don’t think about lights (and lumens) as much as I used to; but I still want those lights when I ride. Sometimes the sun is still rather low in the sky when I set out; and I need to be seen. That’s especially true if I must ride alongside traffic.
But today I’ve taken off from riding. I probably need it once a week; and of course there was a lot of work to do on my website. Tomorrow the weather should be OK; so off I’ll go!