How To Remain Safe On A Bicycle Route

By Author: Louann Laperle
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Portland, OR features more than a few bike routes for you to always keep seeing the same faces, however this was exactly how Mona and I met. The two of us appeared to use the exact same bike streets on the same time. Ultimately, we exchanged hellos and then traded names.

Occasionally, the two of us chat a little. She told me that a stranger chased her off a bike trail once for no obvious reason. That was past sunset. He chased Mona through streets without bicycle lanes. Her own bicycle safety lights were her lifesavers.

How unnerving, I thought. I looked at my own slipshod bike lamps that I never did provide careful thought. Definitely, that had to change. During the weekend, I went to upgrade my bicycle head light with something awesome.

This new bicycle headlight with extra-bright LEDs which I located on the Internet is fairly idiot-proof. This has a handlebar-mounting bracket which enables speedy release every time it isn't needed. It doubles as a flashlight, too.

I changed my old bicycle tail light for one just like Mona's with good reason. She'd become lucky that she discovered ...
... a police vehicle parked up ahead, however more than luck was behind her. This specific bicycle taillight of hers definitely called the cops' attention.

With its 180 degrees of illumination coming from 5 ultra-bright LEDs, you simply can not be missed from both sides, and from behind. Of course, it possesses steady and flashing functions. The moment the police took notice, she lost her mysterious pursuer.

I added a few micro bike lights to the front and back that are much better compared to Mona's. Thanks to their curved inner surface and rubber strap, you can secure them snugly to the handlebars, seat post and bike frame. I did exactly that, and suggested as much to her.

Mona didn't know what was up with that aggressor, but there was news reports sometime later of a woman that was raped off an East Portland bike route. Just like Mona and also me, she is inside her mid-twenties. In contrast to ours, her own bicycle safety lights were sadly not protective enough.