Unlit Road lights

[Dan B]

Second this choice for one rear light. This thing'll weld your retina to the back of your skull if you look directly at it at a distance of less than 3 metres!

Which brings us neatly to the other reason for also buying a cheap backup: on group night rides you can use the backup and turn the eyeball-searer off. You don't want your friends on the Dunwich run or the FNRttC wandering around blind.

 

[HJ]

Find out what rear light HJ is using and get one of those. I rode behind him recently when he had it switched on in broad daylight, I go into hospital later this week to get my retinas re-attached...

Sorry about that Scook, it is a DiNotte 400 taillight, well worth the money

 

[HJ]

For a rear light, the Smart 1/2 W (£13) is good. Two lights is also a good idea as you don't notice if one runs low or goes out.

Second this choice for one rear light. This thing'll weld your retina to the back of your skull if you look directly at it at a distance of less than 3 metres!

Humm, well there is bright and there is bright,



Compare the Smart 1/2 W, the Cateye TL-LD600 and the DiNotte 140L in day light...

Nb the DiNotte 140L is now on the quine's bike.

 

[scook94]

Is that the 400L sat on the saddle?

 

[fossyant]

I have a couple of Fibre Flare lights for all round visibility - new on the market, but hooked up with a Blackburn Mars 3.0, Mars 4.0 and a Superflash....... TBH I'd switch off the Mars 4.0 and superflash if you have following riders....never mind Dinotte's.........

The Dinotte's are awesome.....

 

[andrew_s]

Which brings us neatly to the other reason for also buying a cheap backup: on group night rides you can use the backup and turn the eyeball-searer off. You don't want your friends on the Dunwich run or the FNRttC wandering around blind.

If anyone uses one of those Dinotte things on any group ride I'm on, I'll get my wire cutters out and chop the power lead. They are seriously antisocial.

 

[Cubist]

Tesco Micro-led's fit neatly into the vent at the back of a helmet. As an addition to a good fitted rear light you can't beat them. The strobe setting is absolutely unmissable. As they cost a couple of quid each, I have taped a white one to the bars, and one under the saddle as well.

 

[HJ]

If anyone uses one of those Dinotte things on any group ride I'm on, I'll get my wire cutters out and chop the power lead. They are seriously antisocial.

Just don't wheel suck all the time...

 

[CopperBrompton]

If anyone uses one of those Dinotte things on any group ride I'm on, I'll get my wire cutters out and chop the power lead. They are seriously antisocial.

That's one of the reasons I have a less-powerful backup light. On a group ride, Dinotte lights tend to vapourise your fellow riders.

 

[jethro10]

Well, a late followup.

Tested for the first time in anger last week. a 4w Nightflux visionstick

totally pitch black on the backroads round our village.
The light is excellent.
A proper beam pattern like a car, and so bright. Really confident upto about 18-19mph. Upto about 22mph, ok, if you know the road well.

Car's dip for me!
I have a 1w BLT backup, and it seemed ok.... However the Nightflux in 1w mode, is about twice as good. Looks like all watts are not created equal.

My vision stick is an enduro, with the 6hr batter in full power mode. And better still it was approx £100 i remember, but £50 in a flood sale - looked brand new and unused but minus box and instructions (which I downloaded from the website).

Jeff