Light Colour

[jonny jeez]

Poor drivers will try the 'oh didn't know what it was', but any experienced driver can tell a car light from a motorbike/and even a cycle.

I disagree, I'm a very experienced driver with a good range and understanding of multiple vehicle use (Bike, Motorbike, Car, Scooter, even a White Van on occasion)...and I was confused.

the difference is that my experience meant that I waited until my confusion was clear before moving on.

This is BP's point, experienced drivers are NOT the problem

 

[Mugshot]

This is BP's point, experienced drivers are NOT the problem

Like taxi drivers?

 

[jonny jeez]

Like taxi drivers?

well okay... perhaps we should say "good" as opposed experienced.

although i do see a lot of very good cabbies on my ride's

 

[Bman]

I'd like to think there is a benefit in having amber lights (as opposed to just reflectors) on the pedals.

That should be all that is required to distinguish a group of lights as a cyclist.

 

[cycleruk]

Should Cycle lights all be a "set" colour?

Or at least have an element that contained a signature colour.

I'm not concerned with conformity here but as I ride about in the new darkness I am struck by just how much light confusion there is. Trying to decipher a cycle from a car is getting more and more tricky (with new brighter lights). So I wondered if it would be beneficial to incorporate a single "globally" identifiable colour into bike lights so that the moment you see this colour you know its a bike.

I don’t want people to see "a bike" and ignore it but at the same time I often wonder if people see me and think I'm a car and therefore don’t expect me to be where a bike will be on the road.

Would it help if all bikes had a recognisable colour reference.

And before we all start charging in with “so long as a driver see’s us it doesn’t matter what he/she thinks we are”…I get that.

What I am asking is would it be beneficial to be instantly recognised as a cycle…or would it be more dangerous for us?

I think it would work, if i saw a light colour i never seen before it would defo make you look twice, for instance, my pedals having flashing lights on them, i also wear a high vis jacket with red flashing lights on them. I look like a christmas tree but i think it makes people think "what the hell is that". people carnt say they never saw me coming now