Blue flashing tail light

[LLB]

I saw a guy commuting to work this morning on a MTB.

His front light was a regular one, but the tail light was a flashing blue LED one

WTF ??????

 

[yorkshiregoth]

I sometimes use a small flashing blue light on if I use a rucksack. It's not the only or even main rear light though. I asked a BTP officer about the kosherness of it and he didn't envisage any problems with it.

 

[LLB]

It was a wide strip light with a blue light on it (like emergency service blue). No other reflector, and no red light either. It wasn't that bright, but the colour was wrong. He definitely wasn't plod.

 

[Tynan]

followed someone last week with a white rear light, bloody irritating, all wrong

idiot too

 

[HLaB]

followed someone last week with a white rear light, bloody irritating, all wrong

idiot too

There used to be a bike parked out back of my office with a Red front light

 

[fossyant]

he probably got it off ebay - there are quite a few blue led lights on there like the cateye LD600

 

[02GF74]

I have black lights on my bike.

 

[levad]

I have black lights on my bike.

Very useful on a bright sunny day, they show up very well

 

[Green Teeth]

I can't remember how I heard about these, but I found out last winter that you could buy them from Argos. I bought one (for about £8) because I thought it might focus the minds of drivers.

On the first, or possibly second, outing it got wet, the switch failed and I took it back to Argos for a refund. That was the end of that experiment.

GT

 

[John the Monkey]

There used to be a bike parked out back of my office with a Red front light

Passed a guy running a red for his front today - very odd, as you spend a little while wondering if you're very fast (or they're very slow) then you realise why the closing speed of that "rear" light is so fast

 

[PrettyboyTim]

It's not legal to have any light pointing backwards that isn't red. It's also not legal to have a forward-facing red light.

Also, blue lights are not allowed if they could be confused with an emergency vehicle's lights.

 

[Keith Oates]

That link says it all very plainly so now we know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[yenrod]

I recently got a small little LED of a 2LEDS set.

It has a strobe effect as in: strobe long - short pause - strobe long - short pause..etc..

Its quite similiar to a setting on an emergency vehicle.

I'd love a blue flashing front....as most cardrivers dont give a toss about cyclists ! Whatever the law...

 

[Iceniner]

I came across a rider tonight who had a flashing red LED light at the front and nothing at the rear. Maybe his front batteries had gone? Who knows. but following close behind him was a guy in total black with no lights on a black bike. If he had a led at the front like the knight rider car that would have been cool :-D

 

[Joe24]

I came across a rider tonight who had a flashing red LED light at the front and nothing at the rear. Maybe his front batteries had gone? Who knows. but following close behind him was a guy in total black with no lights on a black bike. If he had a led at the front like the knight rider car that would have been cool :-D

I dont know if i should be ashamed, but i have done this( i was very bored). I didnt ride it though. We were on a campsite, and i decided to put the rear light on the front and put it on flashing setting that wouldnt make it look like the car. I left it outside for a while when it was dark witht he light flashing, and most people that walked pst it when going to the showers or whatever had a look. All i needed was it to have a voice.
I have seen some of those lights that have a red bit and a white bit. Dont really understand them. Its mainly green lights that i see, or very very dim LED lights.