fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Read my post above. Have you ever ridden a TT ???
crazy bright rear light spotted, what was it?
- Thread starter scouserinlondon
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Read my post above. Have you ever ridden a TT ???
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I'm chronically ill, so no. Are TTs allowed to break the law?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Most lights used in the UK on bikes aren't to BS standards. It's used in daylight, not night on only TT bikes.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
The purpose of the light is to attract a drivers' attention, and red LED's dont whack out what a normal white (tinted) LED would. You'll see from behind at distance mainly red flash and a brief 'colour'. It's not meant to be road legal.
There is no copper on the earth that would stop the cyclist. If you drive on a dual carriageway, or country road, you will be rapidly closing in on a cyclist. Having a 'beacon' might just save the cyclist's life.
You'd not get away with that light at night, or in cities.
Its a good light for it's purpose.
Me personally, I wouldn't use a light, but I've not raced TT's for a while
There is no copper on the earth that would stop the cyclist. If you drive on a dual carriageway, or country road, you will be rapidly closing in on a cyclist. Having a 'beacon' might just save the cyclist's life.
You'd not get away with that light at night, or in cities.
Its a good light for it's purpose.
Me personally, I wouldn't use a light, but I've not raced TT's for a while
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
That's as maybe, but it's still an offence. The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 covers it. It's the same argument as using a BMX built for off road use ie only one working brake, on the road.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yes, but the restriction on flashing green lights to doctors is not limited to nighttime. This is quite a lot Dodgier than merely non standard.
Hip Priest
Veteran
Why not go down to your local TT in a bobble hat and a hi-vis vest and give them all a jolly good ticking off?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
So what abut all the chav cars that have blue side lights.
FFS This is a light that 'some folk' use on time trials. Not many..
FFS This is a light that 'some folk' use on time trials. Not many..
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
My lights on my commuter aren't certified, so what !
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I'm sure the owner would rather have a lights that get noticed even if they are illegal, than be hit 
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
This. Safety takes priority over a hodge podge of unenforced and largely incoherent laws in my book.I'm sure the owner would rather have a lights that get noticed even if they are illegal, than be hit
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
This is getting silly, for a start those that think it is an offence might want to check their own lights for compliance to the British Standard, and don't get me started on pedal reflectors, I'm sure you all have them, no? Thought not, well you are illegal then. It is drivers that kill not cyclists, if the standard of driving wasn't so appalling cyclists wouldn't need ultra bright lights to draw attention to themselves. You do what you can to protect yourself. Before flashing rear lights became legal I had been using them for years along with thousands of others but no one was ever stopped as far as I know, in fact I saw police cyclists using them before they were legal, presumably because they felt safer.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Sorry folks. My lights are compliant to an equivalent European standard (and even mounted on the centre or right!), so I'm legal even at night. 
I think it would be good if the traffic police were out at some TTs and I hope they'd probably mostly be pulling over motorists for poor driving, but if green flashing lights are in use, they'd also be fining cyclists, which wouldn't be great.
But the police around here do pull over such cars (I live on an A road and see their organised stop-and-check campaigns every so often) and it's been a while since I've seen one with multicolour side lights.
I think it would be good if the traffic police were out at some TTs and I hope they'd probably mostly be pulling over motorists for poor driving, but if green flashing lights are in use, they'd also be fining cyclists, which wouldn't be great.
So you think TTers are cycling's chav cars?
But the police around here do pull over such cars (I live on an A road and see their organised stop-and-check campaigns every so often) and it's been a while since I've seen one with multicolour side lights.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I give up. Groan.
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
Before I give up too, I would like to add that several of the TT community that we know of are in the police and I can assure you that the overriding concern for the organiser is that every rider gets back safely. Why am I not surprised that your lights are legal, I bet you have pedal reflectors too.
