Indicators?!

[Pip]

What do people think of these?

http://www.beseenonabike.com/shopuk/product_info.php?products_id=319

A useful accessory to enable you to keep hands on bars rather than sticking an arm out, or a silly gimmmick that motorists won't be looking for on a bike and therefore won't 'see'? Does anyone here use them?

 

[RedBike]

Dangerous.

As a driver I wouldn't be looking for an indicator on a bike; assuming I did see them I would probably just take them for a rear light.

 

[RedBike]

The pedals look like a good idea.
http://www.beseenonabike.com/shopuk/product_info.php?products_id=348

It's just a shame there's not a good quality clipless model.

At the moment my clipless pedals (like so many other models) dont even have reflectors.

 

[tdr1nka]

To be brutally honest, hand signals are what drivers expect, thats if they're looking for anything.
I use reflective strips on my wrists at night to emphasize the signal.

 

[skmc1955]

the first thing I noticed was "front and rear units not 100% waterproof"... not a lot of good here then!

 

[mr_cellophane]

The pedals look like a good idea.
http://www.beseenonabike.com/shopuk/product_info.php?products_id=348

It's just a shame there's not a good quality clipless model.

At the moment my clipless pedals (like so many other models) dont even have reflectors.

That is the link to the top clips. The pedals are http://www.beseenonabike.com/shopuk/product_info.php?cPath=69_46&products_id=200
I wonder how they are always white at front and red at rear.

They have a cheaper set

 

[Pip]

To be brutally honest, hand signals are what drivers expect, thats if they're looking for anything.

Dangerous.

As a driver I wouldn't be looking for an indicator on a bike; assuming I did see them I would probably just take them for a rear light.

This is my thinking. The only reason I found them is that I saw a cyclist using some the other day (I was driving at the time) and was intrigued as to how the heck a bike had indicators on it!

Generally speaking, I think the thought process required of a driver to accept something 'out of the norm,' in the case of some drivers will simply serve as a distraction rather than anything useful.

 

[tdr1nka]

FWIW, a nice idea in theory.
I think that the distance between the indicators is too narrow and so probably wouldn't register as much to drivers, even if it were the norm.

 

[4F]

Cannot really see the point of those and they look naff as well

 

[wafflycat]

They are an overdone solution to a problem that's already been solved. As others have said - motorists look for hand signals. Reflective wrist/ankle band cost very, very little and you don't have to worry about waterproofing, batteries, weight...

As regards the pedals... *if* these are the ones I saw at the bike show last year - they do not guarantee the red light to be at the back & the white to the front - you so can end up with a red light at the front and a white at the back. Not only potentially dangerous, but IIRC, illegal too.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I would also doubt if a puny little battery operated light would even show up on a bright day, leaving you blissfully unaware that your turn signal was invisible to everyone else as you moved across the line of traffic.