Best rear light

[magnatom]

Smart Superflash is the business!!!!!!! :?:

 

[John Ponting]

PLEASE HELP A SIMPLETON - does the SMART include the bits to mount directly to the rear of a rack (assuming the rack has the plate with 2 holes). ??

 

[Tynan]

My choice for an economic flasher too. But if you are after a big panel of steady light, then use the Cateye TL LD1100.

'360° visibility'

wha?

 

[John Ponting]

'360° visibility'

wha?

Visible from the front as well? Shirley red to the front is illegal ?

 

[Tynan]

I suspect lots of people aren't good with the difference between 180° and 360°

I've got one and you might say it's got 180°, certainly most of 180°

To say 360° is clearly nonssense

 

[gambatte]

I suspect lots of people aren't good with the difference between 180° and 360°

I've got one and you might say it's got 180°, certainly most of 180°

To say 360° is clearly nonssense

no, depends what plane you're looking on. Lay it on its back - 360

 

[Tynan]

that's sensible is it?

nice point otherwise though

 

[NickM]

If you've got mudguards, the Spanninga LED light (which mounts on the rear 'guard) is excellent. No flashing mode, if that matters, and as far as I know you can only get it from France.

 

[andygates]

The Smart doesn't come with a rack mount (very little does). It has a pretty standard seatpost band with the old two-round-bits-and-a-bolt fitting, so modern racks like the Tor-Tec ones with a round-bit brazed on will be fine. It also comes with a clothes-clip.

 

[Tynan]

there's a hold in the smart that looks lie it might take a bolt isn't there?

I gave up trying very quickly, never really understood clothes clips, surely the light is always going to be more effective bolted onto to something static?

 

[Andy Pandy]

Not cheap but the Dinotte rear light is very bright

 

[Arch]

there's a hold in the smart that looks lie it might take a bolt isn't there?

I gave up trying very quickly, never really understood clothes clips, surely the light is always going to be more effective bolted onto to something static?

Well, I dunno. I have one rear light fixed on my winter bike(dynamo) and one LED that I clip onto the buckle strap of my pannier at the back. It swings about a bit, and because it dangles at an angle, casts a bit of light down onto the road. I wonder if the dangling and swinging might be eyecatching (in conjunction with a fixed light, I wouldn't use it alone like that).

 

[TheDoctor]

It might help stop people pushing you when you're close to the edge.

Broken glass everywhere!

Tell all your friends they can go my way,Pay your toll, sell your soul...

*vows to dig out Grandmaster Flash CD later on*

 

[NickM]

LEDs only appear bright when viewed on axis (or through a lens pointing in the desired direction). Dangling ones, I think, are not worth much - that's why I'm happy with the one attached to my mudguard (my seatpin is occupied by a bag).

 

[Arch]

LEDs only appear bright when viewed on axis (or through a lens pointing in the desired direction). Dangling ones, I think, are not worth much - that's why I'm happy with the one attached to my mudguard (my seatpin is occupied by a bag).

But the LEDs in my dangling light are within a plastic cover that is shaped to refract the light and housed inside a reflective dish - certainly, when I look at it from the side, it seems bright enough...