So the bike was leaned or held by a buddy across(see most recent ‘DIY cable bike/luber'😉 the
intersection, for example Okeechobee and Military Trail at twilight and traffic hour or whatever
occurs in your travel.
Hard to see? The bike! Is the Bike hard to pick out amongst the visual debris? Assume the SUV
perspective assuming one exists to define by cyclists: use dark glasses, a stepladder, earphones
playing "BAD DUDES RIPOUT GRANNYS EXPLETIVE DELETED," then sweep (turn the head) side to side, sweep
eyes only head still, trying to catch the bike as the vision passes over the bike's image.
Number crunchers can plot the problem against local conditions/mortality stats(net available), gauge
distances to the bike asshort and long views gives diff results off course, work in some ft/sec with
the route mileage, exposure conditions. Gives the odds of getting crippled riding around the block
in that last summer evening.
Gather the friends' Blinky lights and add to front, rear, and don't forget the side views till the
bike image IS visible.
The Blinky isa good idea. Blinking activates more chemical responses to the environment until its
difficult to ignore the pain and you confess that "yes"(oh god please stop) you did see the bike but
yawl ran over it anyway just for the hell of it.
A bar mounted Photon Blinky gives a parking lamp visual. A plus. But the bar's narrowness visavee an
oncoming triax frontal area moves the bikes perspective back a few feet out of the ‘what is it?'
zone of SUV awareness. The answer in real terms??
I assume some SUV owners have SUVs to travel beyond the Blinky to a continuously overloaded visual
nervous system redefined by the calmer tribe as boredom. Desoto!!!