On the back I have the CatEye TL-LD1100 which has 2 rows of LEDs, plus is visible from the side. I like it as you can have one of the rows on solid and one on flashing without having two light units.
I like it. Have you got a link to the handlebar extension?
looked into them and they seem to be cheap rubbish.
not really like mine...
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Hi-viz for me please. Ta.@jig-sore, will you make me one in black please?
When drivers can predict you well and with confidence that's when they'll cut it too close to you. If they can't judge it that well, or don't know what you are, they'll invariably leave you more room. As with many other variants of this debate, it's not being seen that's the problem, it's being seen as a cyclist which then allows drivers to take advantage and not care about you that is the problem.
Utter rubbish. You are completely wrong. What you suggest is never, ever, correct.
My experience (over the past 50 years and over 200,000 miles) and that of every bike user I know is exactly opposite to this. The best lighting for being seen and avoided is without doubt one flashing and one steady at each end, or more lights if you want. (with no street lights flashing at the front annoys me so I use 2 steady instead).
99.999999999% of drivers want to avoid colliding with you. Either because they are averse to injuring you or they don't want to scratch their car. They will leave you maximum room if they know exactly where you are. The flashing lights help increase the chances of them seeing you in the first place.
The problem is that some drivers just don't look where they're going, and react too late or not at all to our presence, it's not that they deliberately misbehave, they're just inattentive.
How many of those 200,000 miles have been in a busy city like london? Where there is a near constant stream of traffic coming towards you. Vehicles will take any gap they can to get into/out of a turn.
Utter rubbish. You are completely wrong. What you suggest is never, ever, correct.
My experience (over the past 50 years and over 200,000 miles) and that of every bike user I know is exactly opposite to this. The best lighting for being seen and avoided is without doubt one flashing and one steady at each end, or more lights if you want. (with no street lights flashing at the front annoys me so I use 2 steady instead).
99.999999999% of drivers want to avoid colliding with you. Either because they are averse to injuring you or they don't want to scratch their car. They will leave you maximum room if they know exactly where you are. The flashing lights help increase the chances of them seeing you in the first place.
The problem is that some drivers just don't look where they're going, and react too late or not at all to our presence, it's not that they deliberately misbehave, they're just inattentive.
I'd say it's your post that's the "utter rubbish". I feel a little more logic and decent analysis of the reality out there is needed.
Drivers see cyclists just fine, and it's far less common that they don't look. The much more common problem is that many drivers take chances with cyclists, turning out just in front of them, overtaking closely, etc. Sure, almost none of them intend to hit us, but a few are quite happy to take a big chance and bully us out of their way.
Uncertainty does nothing more than create a little extra time and space for cyclists. That never detracts from our safety, it only adds to it.
looked into them and they seem to be cheap rubbish.
not really like mine...
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If you're ever making those to order I'll have one!