Advice for a new type of bike light

[rogerzilla]

I'd like one with the lumens of LED but the light colour of halogen. Bluish LED light gets swallowed up by wet roads.

I'd also like an STVZO shaped beam with horizontal cutoff, but a bit longer and narrower.

 

[Drago]

A thermonuclear brought flasher that flashes out the outline of a bike instead of concealing the outline of a bike?.

 

[RoadRider400]

Ethically produced bike lights. I have heard it all now.

 

[Drago]

I've,often thought there's a market for crochet bike light covers.

 

[Skanker]

I've,often thought there's a market for crochet bike light covers.

Dammit, I should have got my Nan to teach me to crochet all those years ago!
I thought she was just trying to be funny, but it looks like she could see a market opening up 35 years in the future!

 

[rogerzilla]

I miss my old Schmidt E6. Ok, it needed a new bulb occasionally and the beam was so pencil-thin that tight bends were terrifying, but it didn't half throw light a long way down the road. Unfortunately LEDs are far from a point source of light (a halogen filament is very small in comparison) and can't be focused in the same way.

 

[annedonnelly]

One that I can leave on the bike without worrying that it will be stolen. I get tired of taking them off & putting them back on each journey.

 

[Drago]

How about lights built into a bike, or lights that clip onto universal fittings that are integrated into all new bikes? The battery lack could be hidden inside the frame or under the seat, and could power the lights through the fittings. Genius, eh?

 

[Blue Hills]

First already been done, second - that's why i mostly use cateye.

 

[mjr]

Universal light fittings already exist on all good bikes: front fork crown and rear rack. Nuff said.

I'd quite like ones that are easier for the recyclers when they die but it's hard to think how else they could be ethical.

Above all, dynamo compatible and road-legal beam shape.

 

[classic33]

How about lights built into a bike, or lights that clip onto universal fittings that are integrated into all new bikes? The battery lack could be hidden inside the frame or under the seat, and could power the lights through the fittings. Genius, eh?

Vanmoof!

 

[Blue Hills]

Yes, that's what i was thinking of.
Looks stylish but ultimately pointless i think.

 

[Drago]

Stylish? Sit astride that and itll look lo,e the rider is resting a semi on the YouTube.

 

[palinurus]

What I want is a front & rear wireless dynamo light.

 

[palinurus]

What I want is a front & rear -wireless- dynamo light.

I wasn't being very serious with this but it'd be good not to have to route cable for a rear light
on a bike that doesn't have an internal conduit for the wire.

Also I just thought of Reelights so this sort of exists, but I'd want something good-enough for winter commuting.