Get Some F**king Lights

exposure joystick or diablo

Cheers buddy

not cheap, but charge from a usb port and v v bright

Can anyone recommend a powerful front light that doesn't use a separate battery pack? The street lighting down here in Devon is non existent!

No need to spend a lot, Phaart lights from Planet X are pretty good, I reckon they trump the opposition:

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/c/q/lights/phaart_lights

Bit of an arms race going on with bike lights, you really don't need a Mega-Giga Watt Flashing Bastard Laser Searchbeam that, if you look directly at it, makes your face melt like the nazis off Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

I took a poundland front light and wrapped the lens cover in christmas pudding red cellophane its great!

trouble is I must now wait until January 2014 to buy the pudding cheap to get more red festive cellophane

Can anyone recommend a powerful front light that doesn't use a separate battery pack? The street lighting down here in Devon is non existent!

I've used a Nightrider 600 all last winter and back on my bike this weekend, not the cheapest but definitely feel safe on unlit roads. My model is now obsolete but they seem to have a new model out:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/niterider-lumina-500-cordless-light/

I took a poundland front light and wrapped the lens cover in christmas pudding red cellophane its great!

trouble is I must now wait until January 2014 to buy the pudding cheap to get more red festive cellophane

You want cheap rear:
http://bit.ly/1duvPu2
http://bit.ly/17uGWOz
The second one the bracket breaks very easily and having 9 different ways of flashing just means you have to click about 16 times to turn it off (the first 7 to get too off, then one more by accident and another 8 to cycle round again), but for a pound delivered I don't mind taping it on!

Sure I've heard of a country, possibly somewhere in Europe, where bringing lights with you at all times is compulsory*. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

*Possibly drug and alcohol fuelled gibberish.

I think France were suggesting such a thing, don't know if it was actually made law though.

It's not such a bad idea IMHO. Although they do have a stupid law about having to wear hivis at night (iirc) which I don't agree with!

Today I saw one guy with balacalava, helmet, massive light on the helmet, twin lights on the handlebars with remote battery pack, the wheel lights that make pretty patterns, bar end lights and 3 rear lights. Even by my standards this was overkill.

Then there was Colnago man, a few grands worth of carbon bike 10.30 in the evening and he still has to get back to Esher. Cheap bastard only had one of those shitty Knog rechargeable lights on the rear, and it was out of juice. Possibly this would have been ok, but he rode like an utter bellend, 25 mph through Wandsworth weaving in and out of traffic, never once even looking behind himself.

Finally twat with lights only on his helmet, but he had the rear light facing forward and front light to his rear.

Get Some Fucking Lights, but if you have them know how to fucking use them and in an appropriate fashion.

left the southeasts pub on tuesday and was about to hop on the brompton to head home just as it was getting dark when i realised the bracket for my front light was only good for oversized bars (had grabbed it off my commuter that morning).

like the responsible person I am I went straight to borough tube station and got the tube home.

:(

Shurely you could have made an impromptu shim? Fag packet, crisps, finger..

~10 miles was a bit too far to be bothered with bodging it.

In case it's of interest to anyone at all, a bit of research led me to picking up a Moon Meteor recently, and basically it seems to be the perfect front light. Good and waterproof (left it out in pouring rain today to check, and no adverse effects I can see), super bright for the money (£35 if you're not picky about colour; and I mean it's BRIGHT), USB chargeable, and with a very secure handlebar mount. Honestly not much more I could ask for.

As the Smart Lunar R1 is to rear lights (insanely good value for money, IMO - I have 2), the Moon Meteor is to front lights. WDBWA A+++

Someone lifted my back light off my bag today luckly I have head tourch so wipped it round backwards but annoyed non the less

These are crazy bright, bought some at the NEC bike expo just gone:
Four4th Scorpion

How many set their phasers to Epilipesy?

The Dinotte has my favourite flash mode. It's a very fast burst of flashes, intermittently.

Hope Vision 1 is boring, too slow between on/off.

I rarely run the Exposures in Flash mode so can't actually remember.

I do, not always strobe but atleast flashing. They are more likely to irritate other road users, but I think it means you're more visible too as eyes are drawn to movement:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Co3A3fLBo

Can anyone recommend a powerful front light that doesn't use a separate battery pack? The street lighting down here in Devon is non existent!

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knog blinder

Should be outlawed.
The amount of Singlespeed Mobile Disco's I see is bad enough as a ped let alone if I was a driver, I don't believe they safer. If anything the're only getting you halfway there.

Should be outlawed [because] I don't believe
So long as we don't need any evidence then.

Can anyone recommend a powerful front light that doesn't use a separate battery pack? The street lighting down here in Devon is non existent!

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knog blinder

Exposure maxx d, strada or any of their other lights.

http://use1.com/homepage/exposure-lights

Should be outlawed.
if I was a driver**. I don't believe they're **safer.

Would have been better ;)

So long as we don't need any evidence then.

Well, half of the time they are switched on they are "off". They grab your attention sure, by distracting you.
I like my presence to be constant. :/

Can anyone recommend a decent USB powered rear light that I can mount on the rack of my commuter bike?

I tend to use the electron usb lights for putzing about in town but I'd like something a bit brighter. + something that wasn't seatpost mounted

Well, half of the time they are switched on they are "off". They grab your attention sure, by distracting you.
I like my presence to be constant. :/

wut? I drive, walk and cycle. When I started to drive again about 18moths ago it really opened my eyes to how hard it is to see cyclist on a dark, rainy evening. Solid lights get lost in the rain and you can't look everywhere at once. Your eye really registers a flashing light in your peripheral vision much better than a solid light, therefore you are alerted to something in your vicinity without having to move your eyes to another position and letting them adjust. It's this kind of thing that reduces the risk of accidents.

tl;dr. It doesn't distract you, it alerts you to something you need to be aware of as a driver.

It annoys you as a ped? So what, it's good for cyclists and drivers.

I think he is on the care in the community register.