Blue flashing tail light

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 ??????

 

Could have been a copper. Some of the plod that do CM only have blue lights on the back for some bizarre reason.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

I have black lights on my bike.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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...

 

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