{"id":178923983,"date":"2010-09-02T21:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=178923983"},"modified":"2010-09-02T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T21:06:23","slug":"bike-commuting-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=178923983","title":{"rendered":"Bike Commuting: Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecovelo.info\/images\/autumnal-equinox-485.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nI love this picture from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecovelo.info\/2010\/09\/02\/bike-commuting-101-lights\/\">EcoVelo<\/a> as it really captures some of the serenity of riding at night. I really wish getting a good light was as easy as a visit to your local bike shop but my experience is that too many lights are underpowered (for riding where there are no street lights) or don&#8217;t hold up to Baltimore streets. The best bang for the buck light for me and a few friends have settled on is the Fenix L2D. This is a regular pen light with extreme brightness for its size. I&#8217;ll note that a handle bar mount is available for extra on the Fenix site but for the DIY helmet mounts and other options are available. A YouTube review after the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w622hSop__c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w622hSop__c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" \/><\/object>oldId.20100902210623700<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this picture from EcoVelo as it really captures some of the serenity of riding at night. I really wish getting a good light was as easy as a visit to your local bike shop but my experience is that too many lights are underpowered (for riding where there are no street lights) or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=178923983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bike Commuting: Lights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178923983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178923983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178923983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178923983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178923983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178923983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178923983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}