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Fitting rapid flashing LED light to front of bike

  • 25-01-2011 01:17PM
    #1
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,550 ✭✭✭


    You know: one of the ones that prove so effective for increasing the visability of cyclists - but rigged to operate by handbar mounted switch. I'd probably tame it down a bit to ensure it's well visible but not dazzling

    I wouldn't envisage using it 24/7 - more for cutting through commuting traffic and the like.

    D'ya reckon the guards would have a big problem with it, or would they take the same pragmatic approach them do with riding in cycle lanes?


Comments

  • #2
    JohnnyCrash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭JohnnyCrash


    Cant you just use your dipped lights:confused:


  • #3
    rgfuller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 709 ✭✭✭rgfuller


    Agreed use your dipped headlight - make sure you have a decent bright bulb and the lens is clean, using a flashing light you could mislead vehicles ahead of you thinking you are a 'slower' cyclist and they may assume they have time to swerve between lanes before you catch up.


  • #4
    carsQhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭carsQhere


    rgfuller wrote: »
    you could mislead vehicles ahead of you thinking you are a 'slower' cyclist and they may assume they have time to swerve between lanes before you catch up.

    Absolutely. Wouldn't want the average driver mistaking you for a slow moving bicycle. I would imagine the Gardai would take a dim view of it too.


  • #5
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,550 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    rgfuller wrote: »
    Agreed use your dipped headlight - make sure you have a decent bright bulb and the lens is clean, using a flashing light you could mislead vehicles ahead of you thinking you are a 'slower' cyclist and they may assume they have time to swerve between lanes before you catch up.


    I was thinking of using it for a specialist application: in tight, slowish commute traffic (think winter from town through Donnybrook) where the bikes dipped beam is lost in a sea of similarily lit cars. Speed wouldn't be high and there'd be the fact that this light is moving faster than a bicycle to break through drivers auto-pilot fog.

    Was the thinking .. in any case.

    (speaking of which - saw a driver pull out of his estate onto the main road early this dark morning. There was a JCB with a mother of a bucket on the front bouncing along at full pelt along the main roads - without lights. The car driver obviously just glanced up the road, saw no lights coming and thought "clear". He came within inches of a JCB bucket through the drivers side of the car)


  • #6
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,194 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    Get a HID kit.


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