okeydokey79
Senior Member
+1 for the planter x lights read a review on here and ordered the phaart booster and a bleep dual and are really bright 1 on seat post and 1 clipped to saddle bag and for £2.50 each bargin.
2 identical Red lights on the back.
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Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
Not sure at present but don't go silly cheap. 3 of my Smarts (the ones with the 1/2w rated LEDs) have now been going since 2009 with no problems - not the cheapest at the time.
(The 4th has been replaced with the newer higher power one after it ended up flashing for 2 days at the bottom of the canal!)
Whatever you get use a smear of silicone grease on the joins every battery change.
(The 4th has been replaced with the newer higher power one after it ended up flashing for 2 days at the bottom of the canal!)
Whatever you get use a smear of silicone grease on the joins every battery change.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Same here, 2 rear lights, one flashing and one steady. If I ran only one rear light it would be flashing. I run 2 rears so if one fails at least I still have one working but strangely I am happy to run only one front light. I guess this is because if the front light stopped working I would notice while if the rear packs in I could ride miles without realising.
Talking of 2 rear lights.
I have the 2 5led lights on my bike arranged so it looks like a T shape.
Last night another cyclist who stopped at the lights beside me asked where I got the T shaped light from.
He had never seen one before. He had a Doh! moment when I pointed out to him that it was in fact 2 lights.
I have the 2 5led lights on my bike arranged so it looks like a T shape.
Last night another cyclist who stopped at the lights beside me asked where I got the T shaped light from.
He had never seen one before. He had a Doh! moment when I pointed out to him that it was in fact 2 lights.
Crankarm
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- Nr Cambridge
Why just have a T when you could have an X or even a P or a slinkly S. You could even make a small word as long as it wasn't the C word.
Crankarm
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- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Personally imho I think all flashing bike lights should be banned. Bike lights are way more powerful than they ever used to be and having them on flashing is a menace. Pretty much all of them are poorly directed so they dazzle other approaching road users and peds.
It's also a problem on FNRttC's.
It doesn't take a little bit of common sense to dip the lights a little.
Crankarm
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- Location
- Nr Cambridge
It's looking that way Ian. Would you like one as well? Plus a bun. Have a virtual cocoa/tea/coffee/latte and bun on me.
Thanks but no ta...
I have already reached my tea/coffee max intake for the working day.
A bun though? hmmm....
(goes off to try make lights S shape)
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Indeed which makes me think the cyclists who set them to flashing are pretty inconsiderate selfish *****rs.
neil earley
Guru
- Location
- Neath
Rather be a selfish******rs than a rear ended cyclist lol ! I ride a recumbent bike 2 rear lights and as I pulled into a petrol station { needed more jellybabies} a motorist says to me I followed you for half a mile or so and that contraption is an accident waiting to happen to add insult I think them blinky lights on back are a joke, Stick to cyclepaths you moron as you are a menace on the road! Just laughed it off as he was a tw*t
Davidc
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- Location
- Somerset UK
I'm close to agreeing.
Although I run 1 flash 1 steady at the back I have reservations about flashing lights. I don't flash at the front, and if for any reason I only have 1 at the back then steady there as well.
A look at German government documents on this is worthwhile.
