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

[Shut Up Legs]

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.

No, it just makes a difference after any collision, when if the court finds you weren't using lights, it will be that much more likely to let the motorist off the hook. That's certainly the case here in Australia, anyway, where victim-blaming is a national sport. Yes, I sound bitter, and that's because I am: Australia is not a cyclist-friendly country.

 

[slowmotion]

Oi!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

on my commute, yes. on a club run, no…

 

[Smokin Joe]

No, it just makes a difference after any collision, when if the court finds you weren't using lights, it will be that much more likely to let the motorist off the hook. That's certainly the case here in Australia, anyway, where victim-blaming is a national sport. Yes, I sound bitter, and that's because I am: Australia is not a cyclist-friendly country.

What, during the day?

 

[NorthernDave]

Lights on flashing. Anything to get their attention

A big +1 from me to that.

 

[furball]

I have to say when I'm driving I notice bikes first then lights second if on. I can see the point in using lights in the daytime in low light or fog but not all the time.
I do have an issue with blinding motorbike lights.

 

[MichaelW2]

My hub dynamo lights are either on senso or on. On foggy, misty or rainy days, I check to make sure they are on.
There is no real downside to dynamo lights being on. LED life is 100,000hrs, which, at 1hr a day = 100 years. What happens after the time limit?

 

[Old jon]

Lights on flashing, full time. Recharge every third ride.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

On, day or night. Flashing beam during the day. They're rechargeable so the cost is minimal and it gives unobservant drivers no potential excuse.

 

[mustang1]

Yes, Ali the time.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Oh come on, a winter and a summer commuter is perfectly reasonable. The third one for spring and autumn might be excessive.

Seasonal gains, innit!

 

[ufkacbln]

I have a very basic rule....

LOok around you and if lit objects stand out against a darker basckround then use your lights

My conern is that as in the US the use of DRLs becomes an issue to blame cyclists for bad driving

 

[G3CWI]

someone had nicked it.

Light fingered so and so.

 

[G3CWI]

I have a flashing rear light on most of the time. I adopted this practice after noting how visible it made another club member when she was a long way ahead - on a sunny day (we have the same type of light).

 

[Alberto Balsam]

As someone else has said; I only tend to put mine on when it's starting to look a bit gloomy, but, as the last poster said; they DO make you more visible. Even in bright sunlight so maybe I should.
I suppose it'd be getting in the habit for me. When I first got a helmet I often forgot to wear it, and it took me months to get into the habit of remembering it.