GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
For the love of God; on the bars!
1 Ay-Up on the bars, a second rear facing Ay-Up fitted with red Saxon Caps on the helmet. I wouldn't put a front facing light up top for the same reasons that has been said above. If your bars are lit up enough why would you need more.
They make great rear lights with those Saxon caps don't they? Probably a bit too bright, but then you can point em at the floor.
I just wish they'd make a Saxon cap with dipper optics for the front. I use Ay-ups as well and you have to angle them down a tad or they blind. It'd be so simple just to have a cap with the appropriate optics for road use.
If you could point me at the post where I've said any of that I'd gladly apologise for being an idiot.So a well positioned helmet light with the beam pointed down is worse than a badly angled light mounted on the handlebars?
I suppose all motorists are poor drivers & every cyclist jumps red lights too?
A driver's eye line is just over 3 ft above the road. When pulling out, they look level with their eye line. That is where they expect to see car head lights. They don't expect to see the light 2 ft above that. Any higher and the brain will think that the object is further away.
No one loves their AyUps more than me but they are fairly anti-social on road at night for oncoming traffic and as rear lights they are simply FAR.TOO.BRIGHT. and besides what's the point of them as rear lights? As helmet lights when racing, great. When group riding? Eyeball searing friendship killers.
I had to get off the bike and push due to the wind yesterday, passed comment with another rider in the same position on the cycle path and he nearly burnt my retinas out with his helmet light!