Yup, they were originally off my push bike too.
Not quite avgas - my point was that the frequency of the flashes was so slow that I nearly MISSED the flash...I would have seen a steady light that was moving towards me more readily than this bloke's flasher.....specially in the wet conditions with gazillions of reflections off road etc etc.....
Let me get this straight - you're discussing the problem with pushbikes using the incorrect lights?
WTF? - seriously any cyclist who bothers to put on any lights in the first place deserves a hug in my book. I "sense" heaps of ninjas on pushbikes around here - I say sense because you don't really see them when it comes down to it.
But yes, not carrying proper lights on a pushbike at night is indeed pretty silly. And neither would it be a bad idea to have them on during the day.
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The use of strobe-type lights - both red and white - has been an obvious success for cyclists. They are way better and brighter...
What does this mean for motorcyclists? Is it legal to fix a strobe light on a M/cycle? I saw a SV with a couple of red strobe lights next to its fixed tail light. It was very noticeable!
Can I fit strobe lights to my M/cycle front and rear and not get into grief when getting a warrant?
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DJ
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I use:
to see: dual-light system 10w+2.5w (need all 12.5w out west on unlit roads at night) running on a battery-bottle cage mounted NimH system with a 12 hours burntime (2.5w)
to be seen: additional cat-eye blinking 3-LED front light (like most of these it has various speeds and modes from all 3-on, strobe, flashing at different rates etc), smart 5-LED rear light on the seatpost and the same again on backpack (1 set to 'on' with visibility at 500m) and one to flash.
As a career commuter I would suggest this is the very minimum spec for riding on roads at night on a cycle.
Motorcycle songlist:
Best blast soundtrack:Born to be wild (Steppenwolf)
Best sunny ride: Runnin' down a dream (Tom Petty)
Don't want to hear ...: Slip, slidin' away, Caught by the Fuzz or Bam Thwok!(Paul Simon/Supergrass/The Pixies)
... seatpost? ...backpack? - but can I fix them to the motorbike?
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