Illegal bicycle lights, so powerful they burn paper!

[uclown2002]

I'm calling BS. First post on CC.

 

[fossyant]

Don't worry folks, the mods have this on watch !

 

[buggi]

Can you let National Grid know about this? I'm sure they'd like to know how you get this much output from a battery

 

[Dibdib]

Let's look at the rest of your videos on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWLjRI_6Y7-yEIuRT0rkpFw/videos

Yeah, this is nonsense.

 

[ufkacbln]

It's not so much the brightness that's the problem with them, it's daft chunts that, rather than pointing them down at the road, have them pointing straight forwards dazzling fellow cyclists and motorists. Seems very prevalent on the well lit streets of London. The angle of the light positioned in the picture once the video has run is a prime example.

Whilst it may sound harsh, I'm glad you were fined.

Actually it is the fault of the designers who have continually failed to focus or filter the beams of bicycle lights.

None of these lights would blind anybody if they were properly designed.

I use a set of German lights that are brighter than some of the other sets, yet because they have a proper beam pattern there are no issues

 

[ianrauk]

It's not so much the brightness that's the problem with them, it's daft chunts that, rather than pointing them down at the road, have them pointing straight forwards dazzling fellow cyclists and motorists. Seems very prevalent on the well lit streets of London. The angle of the light positioned in the picture once the video has run is a prime example.

Whilst it may sound harsh, I'm glad you were fined.

Well said....

 

[MisterStan]

Bollocks

Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back!

 

[winjim]

Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back!

I did consider rebutting each point made in the OP one by one, but then decided it merited a more succint approach.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Thread is on other forums also

 

[jefmcg]

Thread is on other forums also

I did a search earlier, without getting any other hits. Improved search does the trick

 

[pclay]

Video must be fake. How can light alone cause paper to burn. There needs to be a heat source as well.

 

[jefmcg]

Video must be fake. How can light alone cause paper to burn. There needs to be a heat source as well.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7nJ3wIxt3o


(but the video is a fake)

 

[ufkacbln]

Of course if you take video as accurate, and the beam is that hot at that distance, what must the housing temperature be, and do you need a trailer for the water cooling system?

 

[Drago]

Fist of all, what power did the Dibble exercise to seize your lights?

And second, why were you pointing them in people's faces instead of at the road surface ahead of your sickle?

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Regardless of the OP's claims. Badly angled bike lights are as much of a PITA as inappropriately used full beams on cars & I'm a big fan of my fresnel glass on my T6, proper dark use light, it widens and flattens the beam so I get to see all I need forwards without blinding people with the added bonus of more to the side illumination too