Outfitting for winter

I like winter bicycling. The cold never really bothered me too much and I like feeling like a tough guy. I saw the following pic recently and I thought to my self "Well, that's not right". The pic in questions was recently published in the Toronto Stars GTA section.

Photo by Toronto Star

It's a great introductory article on how to prepare for winter cycling. You can read the whole article here and it well worth the read. 

However, when I looked at the above pic closely, I realized my pick would be somewhat different. In fact it would look like this.

Now that's a lot of stuff crossed out there. Either I am the world most unsafe rider (which might be true) or that guy is Mr. Money Bags. Look at all those battery powered lights. That's 50 bucks in blinking lights alone. Now I do pretty good, salary wise, but I'm not making "Four Blinking Lights" money.

In the near future, I will do a post on exactly what I ride with, so you can decide for yourself  what level of safety you are looking to embrace.