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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Got my Hoy Hybrid and decided to get some lights and spend more money than usual on the disposable plastic crap ones...
The ones I have got cost 46.00 and they are unbelievable!! simply plug them into charge and that's it! uSb lights, they'll last forever!!
You'll have a good day now you know this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"As long as they don't flash and you can dip them when approaching on coming traffic they'll win my approval. "
Why would you expect a cyclist who's lights are almost certainly less powerful tban a car or motorcycle to dip their lights?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Because now you can get bike lights at least as bright as car headlight. I have one. Doesn't dip though, I tend to put my hand over it to prevent blinding folk. |
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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago
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Not a great believer in the SMIDSY excuse, whether using pedle or petrol powered two wheels. So lights always on on kawa.
Bicycle hasflashing red lught attashed to rear mud guard, constant red light on seat post, tyreflies on the wheels, a little flashing led light on the bars and a 2000 lumem twin led head light attached to the front mudguard. (The head light is normally run on half power.) |
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"As long as they don't flash and you can dip them when approaching on coming traffic they'll win my approval.
Why would you expect a cyclist who's lights are almost certainly less powerful tban a car or motorcycle to dip their lights?
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the question that should be asked is why wouldn't you? |
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"As long as they don't flash and you can dip them when approaching on coming traffic they'll win my approval.
Why would you expect a cyclist who's lights are almost certainly less powerful tban a car or motorcycle to dip their lights?
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because as a previous poster said they are now as bright as car lights. They also tend to go round drains etc and point the offending lights directly at the opposite side of the road.
As for the flashing lights I know of no other vehicle that has headlamps or rear marker lights that flash. What makes a bicycle so special it requires them? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lights are bright now, I have some xenon type cats eyes ones they turn night to day they are so bright, so I position them pointing slightly down because they could blind a driver coming the other way |
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"As long as they don't flash and you can dip them when approaching on coming traffic they'll win my approval.
Why would you expect a cyclist who's lights are almost certainly less powerful tban a car or motorcycle to dip their lights?
because as a previous poster said they are now as bright as car lights. They also tend to go round drains etc and point the offending lights directly at the opposite side of the road.
As for the flashing lights I know of no other vehicle that has headlamps or rear marker lights that flash. What makes a bicycle so special it requires them?"
probably because cyclists are more vulnerable than other road users. |
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"As long as they don't flash and you can dip them when approaching on coming traffic they'll win my approval.
Why would you expect a cyclist who's lights are almost certainly less powerful tban a car or motorcycle to dip their lights?
because as a previous poster said they are now as bright as car lights. They also tend to go round drains etc and point the offending lights directly at the opposite side of the road.
As for the flashing lights I know of no other vehicle that has headlamps or rear marker lights that flash. What makes a bicycle so special it requires them?
probably because cyclists are more vulnerable than other road users."
makes them extremely vulnerable if they blind other road users.
highway code states
Flashing lights are permitted but it is recommended that cyclists who are riding in areas without street lighting use a steady front lamp.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I guess it makes a change from complaining that cyclists have no lights 
Very few bike lights have an output of more than 700 lumens which is the approximate output of a car with a low beam. So if that causes other road users issues then presumably so do all headlights.
Personally I want to be seen, 'sorry mate I didn't see you" is to common an excuse and I'm not giving motorists tge chance to use it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As both a regular cyclist and car driver I appreciate the need for cyclists to be well-lit. One thing I have noticed, though, is a marked increase in the number of cyclists using intensely bright, often flashing/strobing, lights. Yes, you can't miss seeing them, but the lights are usually not dipped to the road, especially the helmet-mounted kind, and they can blind and confuse other road users. This is especially true on unlit roads, where any light is made that much more intense.
Oddly enough, the people I've heard complain most about over-bright and blinking lights are other cyclists, who find them disorienting to ride behind. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The rapid flashing blink blink blink blink blink lights on bikes really piss me off as a driver. ...  "
Yes, but you notice them! As an EV driver, I actually think that flashing rear lights are a good idea. You can spot them at a distance in the dark and identify that it's a bike, and therefore likely to be unpredictable and erratic in it's movements. Forewarned is forearmed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The rapid flashing blink blink blink blink blink lights on bikes really piss me off as a driver. ... "
Do you see them though?
That's not meant to be argumentative but the very fact motorists complain about flashing lights demonstrates their effectiveness |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Glad you got good lights. Now how about cyclists passing the theory test and having insurance?  "
I would agree with insurance, but also add that cyclists should be registered and should all wear a hi-viz with a readable identification number. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The rapid flashing blink blink blink blink blink lights on bikes really piss me off as a driver. ...
Do you see them though?
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Oh I see them.
Only too bloody well I see them.  |
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"Glad you got good lights. Now how about cyclists passing the theory test and having insurance?
I would agree with insurance, but also add that cyclists should be registered and should all wear a hi-viz with a readable identification number. "
Where would you put a number plate? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Glad you got good lights. Now how about cyclists passing the theory test and having insurance?
I would agree with insurance, but also add that cyclists should be registered and should all wear a hi-viz with a readable identification number.
Where would you put a number plate?"
Not a plate, but a legible reference number printed on the hi-viz. It's the person that needs to be identifiable, not the bike. |
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"Glad you got good lights. Now how about cyclists passing the theory test and having insurance?
I would agree with insurance, but also add that cyclists should be registered and should all wear a hi-viz with a readable identification number.
Where would you put a number plate?
Not a plate, but a legible reference number printed on the hi-viz. It's the person that needs to be identifiable, not the bike."
Well that will make some jobs for somebody ?..then you will have to wear leg protectors and rubber pedestrian bumpers ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Glad you got good lights. Now how about cyclists passing the theory test and having insurance?
I would agree with insurance, but also add that cyclists should be registered and should all wear a hi-viz with a readable identification number.
Where would you put a number plate?
Not a plate, but a legible reference number printed on the hi-viz. It's the person that needs to be identifiable, not the bike.
Well that will make some jobs for somebody ?..then you will have to wear leg protectors and rubber pedestrian bumpers ?"
Why would a cyclist need pedestrian bumpers? Are you suggesting that cyclists may be a threat to pedestrians? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've got a 10,000 lumen head torch, it has three settings 1000,5000,10,000.
I use it when I need it and I'm wary at what or who I look at while wearing it.
It most certainly dazzles.
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"I guess it makes a change from complaining that cyclists have no lights
Very few bike lights have an output of more than 700 lumens which is the approximate output of a car with a low beam. So if that causes other road users issues then presumably so do all headlights.
Personally I want to be seen, 'sorry mate I didn't see you" is to common an excuse and I'm not giving motorists tge chance to use it"
no .... because the angle of a car headlight is changed when it's on low beam. any light shone in any road users face is not only inconciderate, it's could be dangerous. You're right, poorly height adjusted headlights on low beam do cause issues to ther road users which is why it's an mot fail.
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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Why would a cyclist need pedestrian bumpers? Are you suggesting that cyclists may be a threat to pedestrians?"
I will.
Imagine if a car mounted the pavement to get past some traffic, then weaved amongst pedestrians for a bit, then swerved to bomb across a zebra crossing and then went the wrong way down a one way street.
In the dark.
Without lights.
OK, most cyclists aren't a couple of tons of metal, but cyclist v pedestrian isn't a fair "fight" either. Motor vehicles move much more predictably on the road than a cyclist does either on the road or on the pavement.
I drive daily, walk often, and cycle occasionally. In all three states i'm a) dangerous and b) aware of it. The moral high ground is not available to any group of road users. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Why would a cyclist need pedestrian bumpers? Are you suggesting that cyclists may be a threat to pedestrians?
I will.
Imagine if a car mounted the pavement to get past some traffic, then weaved amongst pedestrians for a bit, then swerved to bomb across a zebra crossing and then went the wrong way down a one way street.
In the dark.
Without lights.
OK, most cyclists aren't a couple of tons of metal, but cyclist v pedestrian isn't a fair "fight" either. Motor vehicles move much more predictably on the road than a cyclist does either on the road or on the pavement.
I drive daily, walk often, and cycle occasionally. In all three states i'm a) dangerous and b) aware of it. The moral high ground is not available to any group of road users."
Agree
All the lighting, abs braking parking sensors and green cross codes in the world cannot stop a twat |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We are all inconsiderate in our use of pathways and roads. How many pedestrians/joggers mums with prams and knob head school kids just step out in front of oncoming traffic and then give you a shit look? How many cyclists fly along the pavement or through red lights and the wrong way along the road. And how many drivers have cut you up and caused uou to slam on or come toward you and made you swerve and how many have you seen on their mobile phones. I am a courteous pedestrian/cyclist/driver most of the time but on the odd occasion I presume i have done something that would cause someone to call me a right twat and am guessing that we all have. We all have our little personal bubnle space that we think is ours and we unkeash our little fuck you wanker when we feel its been invaded. We need to think of the frozen movie and sing that little song in our heads. You know the one come on guys sing with me and smile. "Let it go, let it go" |
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