Anyone on these forums use lights all the time? Day or night.

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slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
It's a pity there's no "Dislike" button.
Sorry. My post was a result of the recent "Bicycle Bellend" cartoon in the April copy of Viz combined with a few drinks in the company of fellow CC parishioners this evening. Displaying daylight running lights down Oxford Street on the way to the little celebration really would have made no difference to the exciting slalom between buses, taxis, and kamikaze kerb-leaping shoppers.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
On the subject of lights i took my front light with me down the pub on Wednesday, as the lighting on the walk down is poor. I left it on the bar without thinking then went back for it 5 minutes later and someone had nicked it.:thumbsdown:
 

shouldbeinbed

Rollin' along
Location
Manchester way
I always have lights on my bikes, I don't necessarily have them turned on as daytime running lights. depends on my assessment of the conditions I'm in and whether i feel after with a light on or not.

even my full dynamo, auto sensor option lights are set to manual on/off
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
My winter commuter has a dynamo and the lights look after themselves. This seems to involve being on full time.
thats the default position on my commuter. i am not posh or rich enough to have a winter commuter and a summer commuter. ;)
 
I often run my front light on flash mode during the day. Since almost all of my pathetically short 1.5 mile commute is filtering down a kerbside cycle farsility I feel it helps to alert the mobile phone users and left turning non indicators and other incompetents to my existence. But I can't know for sure.
 

Mugshot

Cracking a solo.
ride naked with your naughty bits painted day-glo orange and wearing a peacock feather hat?

or dressed as a Roman Centurion.

that'd grab their attention :smile:
Now I'm assuming that this is posted with your tongue firmly in your cheek, but, think about it for a minute how far are you going to go? How far are you going to let yourself be forced to go by drivers that not only seem to no longer bear any responsibility for having to look properly when it's dark but it would appear in some peoples minds have a decreasing amount of responsibility to look properly in broad daylight. So, how long before you do start wearing your peacock feathers?
 

shouldbeinbed

Rollin' along
Location
Manchester way
Now I'm assuming that this is posted with your tongue firmly in your cheek, but, think about it for a minute how far are you going to go? How far are you going to let yourself be forced to go by drivers that not only seem to no longer bear any responsibility for having to look properly when it's dark but it would appear in some peoples minds have a decreasing amount of responsibility to look properly in broad daylight. So, how long before you do start wearing your peacock feathers?

ah come on, how could it not be tongue in cheek.


if I'm bollock naked bar a bit of orange paint on me goolies and a peacock feather hat, I think I've gone too far before setting foot outside of the front door :smile:
 
Often put lights on during the daytime if it's raining or a bit dull. :rain:
I do that, plus low sun from behind me. I have lights permanently on my road bike but it's rare I use them. After a period of empirical experimentation I found it made no difference to people pulling out on me. If they don't see you, they don't see you. They do though, certainly hear me when they do it.
 
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