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  1. twilight comes early.
    for the rear rack, i put two yellow nashbar blinkies facing to the side
    of the "big" cateye facing rearwards on a steel joist hanger strap.
    the 300 cateye headlamp on the bar is opposite one yellow blinkie

    the blinkie idea arose from the question- "what is that one white
    light?" passing thru the approaching SUV's neurons-in the best of
    situations.
    the blinkie addition then differentiating the one white
    (blueish)headlamp from yonder porch bulb
    or from no response at all to one white (blueish)light-the most
    probable reaction.

    the blinkies give perspective to the....
    oh expletive deleted. the blinkies are 1/20th the size of auto's side
    mounted "running lights"
    so the SUV nuerons relay THAT message-THAT the funny lights on the
    funny car are 5 or 6 times more distant than where you are.
    this is not good.
    ID as a cycle is the only recourse.
    there's a need for durable pedal and spoke mounted lights.

    oh yeah- does the mount fit the bar? mine don't.
    cardboard of required thickness taped to the bar with stretched on
    electrical tape gives a perfect shim.

  2. the question is more-does the car see you?
    than do you see the road.
    the nashbar blinkie fits onto the bear trap pedals used here
    but a direct screw thru the light board? is that possible?
    it may be ok to push a hot nail obliquely from below the right batt
    then under the light board
    installing a #440 screw.

  3. i read ANIMALS IN TRANSLATION' by temple grandin who is diagnosed
    autistic. Grandin works with cattle, and her achievements lie in humane
    cattle slaughter.

    She writes that as autistic-her brain thinks in images not articulated
    language.

    This may be relative to SUV pilote-

    Temple On color vision-contrast both scares and controls animals.

    Birds see ultraviolet blue green red
    People and some primates see 3-blue green and red
    Mexicans in hot Hondas see red and blue
    Most other animals and SUV drivers see two-blue and green

    With dichromatic vision-two colors blue and green: the best color seen
    is yellowish green (j.deere) and bluish purple
    That means that yellow is the high contrast color for almost all
    animals
    "anything yellow will really pop out at them"

    I am camping a few feet from the Gulf in a natural area at the far end
    of a cattle pasture.

    I throw the bike over the fence and walk it on back. A yellow blinkie
    mounts on the bar.

    One dreary night The cattle herd (five+one castrated bull)stood to one
    side of the path about 100' wide eyeballing my approach. The ex-bull
    goes thru the motions and has a nice set of sharp ended horns but
    doesn't get more than a foot forward before his hormones burn out.
    They're ok-they sniff.

    I turned on the blinkie. Forward we walked. The cattle stared wide
    eyed.
    I became an apparirititon BLINKIEMAN

    The cattle turned and fled through the bush. Crash crash crash went the
    cattle thru the brush.

    I did the blinkieman 3 times and each time, the cattle went crash crash
    crash thru the florida holley/brazilian pepper.

    Yellow is the color!

  4. lights on and turning out onto the highway at dusk with the two yellow
    blinkies as sidelights and the "big" cateye pointed back-the three
    mounted together beneath the rear rack and just behind of the rear tire

    i was blinded by the blue flash-passing fireman/ems
    five comments in five miles!!

    the yellow flashes visible and complementing against the main "big"
    cateye's rearward red

    summation!! unusual lights. whazit?

    the big cateye is selling for $12 at nashbars light sale. mooooo!

  5. feedback from the last post-
    the red horizontal cateye flanked with a blinkie yellow halo
    increases oncoming SUV perceptions to the pint where SUV aliens see the
    image as another car!!
    or better- a distant emergency vehicle.

    also a reminder that the dayglo yellow poster paper available in your
    local superduper hung off bike, taped or looped to the shirt back or
    off the front bar increases dusk and daylight visibility from 100 feet
    to a half mile
    more than enough SUV time to decide whazit?

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