Tag: bike lights

November 4, 2019

For some reason, we are still adjusting our clocks so that evening commutes are in the dark

Washington, Oregon and California have all passed laws saying that they are ready to switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time, but we still need to meaninglessly and abruptly plunge the evening commute into darkness next week because Congress has not yet approved the West Coast time zone change. That means sunset today is 4:47 p.m.…
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tagged: bike lights, commute seattle, daylight savings time, light up your ride
November 5, 2018

Obligatory end of Daylight Saving Time bike lights post

Sunset is at 4:45 today. 4:45! That means the typical evening commute will happen in the dark and twilight hours for the next several months. So lets talk about bike lights. Longtime readers may remember previous posts about bike lights like this one, and my advice remains largely unchanged: Buy a headlight bright enough to…
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tagged: bike lights, daylight savings time
October 9, 2017

It’s getting dark earlier, so let’s talk about bike lights

Biking at night is one of my favorite things to do. As we wrote in our 2013 bike light story, “a nighttime bike ride can turn a simple errand into an existential experience.” It’s true. The pace of the city slows way down at night. All the wooded areas come alive. The magnificent vistas transform.…
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tagged: bike lights
October 28, 2015

Rain?!? Pshhh, whatever. Seattle’s a year-round bike town

One of Seattle Bike Blog’s all-time most read stories has a simple title: How to bike in the Seattle rain. Some people thought the post was a cop-out since, in a way, it contains little real advice about what to buy and what to wear. But that’s the point: Biking year-round in Seattle is totally…
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tagged: bike lights
January 20, 2014

West Seattle video series compares bike lights from the driver’s seat

The good folks at West Seattle Bike Connections read our October post about bike lights (and how some are too bright to put on strobe mode on a bike trail) and noticed something missing: Demonstrations of how different lights actually look in action. So Jeff Hallman and three other West Seattle residents went to a…
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tagged: bike lights, videos, west seattle, west seattle bike connections
November 25, 2013

Is there really a bike light arms race, or are we all just confused about what’s safe?

I absolutely love biking around Seattle at night. Our city is simply stunning, and a nighttime bike ride can turn a simple errand into an existential experience. People who have biked through Interlaken Park alone at night probably know how easy it is to spook yourself out. Each rustle in the leaves or snapping twig…
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tagged: bike lights, crosscut