Get Some F**king Lights

My favouritest rear light:
http://www.thebikelightshop.co.uk/Smart-Lunar-R1-Club-Offer.aspx

I use a very similar combo to Lucifer, Hope Vision one up front and a narrow but very bright rear. Fibre flare? Pah. Even Tesco / Asda do better rear lights for a fiver. No excuse for not having a good bright rear. Like a randy baboon.

Day-Moe's link above is also very bright, like being chased by hell.

Well, I also live in London and also work all over the place and nothing will ever convince me I need to spend hundreds of pounds on a front light. Or even £70.
Many of the front bike lights I have seen in the last couple of years are brighter and more blinding than car lights.

Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light - YouTube

Alkali:
But has the option of being turned down, crucially.

why turn it down? My GF rides with one of these, when I follow her it's a bit annoying but I'd rather we were visible as far in advance as possible. The epi-hunt mode is a bit wearing though.

I had a Hope Vision 1, it got pinched when I stupidly left it on the bike, I then used one of those little Blackburn lights that they gave away so famously the other day- and found that cars pulled out on me, turned across me, and generally behaved as if I wasn't there.

I bought another Vision 1, and normal service was resumed- my ride home was a lot more pleasant as cars would wait, rather than scything across the road at me.

=In my own personal opinion a nice bright front light is better than a little blinky one.

I have 1 in front and 2 in the rear

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=In my own personal opinion a nice bright front light is better than a little blinky one.[/QUOTE]

Though those are not the alternatives I was putting forward.

Really? Came across that way

No. I said a light that is bright enough.
I use one of these
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/lights/front/product/review-polaris-ii-5-led-32399/

£15 or so. I also don't have problems with drivers acting as if I was not there.

why turn it down? My GF rides with one of these, when I follow her it's a bit annoying but I'd rather we were visible as far in advance as possible. The epi-hunt mode is a bit wearing though.

It's nice when you're riding with a group to turn it down.

I dunno. I don't like having cherry bombs burnt into my skull when riding home. I find it a little uncomfortable. Clearly, the solution is: go faster than everyone else, have no one in front of me.

Will: Not a bad little unit.

No. I said a light that is bright enough.
I use one of these
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/accessories/lights/front/product/review-polaris-ii-5-led-32399/

£15 or so. I also don't have problems with drivers acting as if I was not there.

That light is really piss poor if you have ever need something that actually lights up the road. I have one as a back up but I would recommend something with a more powerful beam if you ever have use unlit roads.

As I said, I am talking about riding in London. The number of unlit roads I have used in London in the last 25 years is, er, er...

The Wiggles - Hot Poppin' Popcorn - YouTube

It's not popcorn till someone calls someone else a cunt for no good reason. Or till Wicksie turns up.

Daymoe - you're a cunt.

Anyway I am off for a bath. Let's hope I don't trip over in the hall with it's lousy 40W bulb.

And get some fucking lights Yasi.

:)

thinkign about getting flash and flare, but i will lose them and i dont want to waste the money.

As I said, I am talking about riding in London. The number of unlit roads I have used in London in the last 25 years is, er, er...

There are a couple over this way, they are the reason that I have two of those Cree front lights in a draw as they had a tendency to turn from "on" to "flash" just before the pothole

Creation Iration is fucking right.... Thirty quid fine my fucking arse.
Coppers hand out little lights at the HGV education days for free. Why cant they stop people, educate them about the fact that they are invisible and maybe give them an emegency rear light.
Fucking fines... fuck off.

Yeah, and the next time I slap some fuck that's given me grief on the road, I'll look forward to the coppers handing me a couple of eccys and telling me to "be happy!".

As I said, I am talking about riding in London. The number of unlit roads I have used in London in the last 25 years is, er, er...

Well I do ride down one or two, and a few towpaths and across a few parks. And down some lit roads there are deep shadows and lurking potholes. I like to be able to see as well as be seen.

Yeah, and the next time I slap some fuck that's given me grief on the road, I'll look forward to the coppers handing me a couple of eccys and telling me to "be happy!".

If I was running the show, thats how we'd roll. Free eccys and bike lights for all.

and maypole dancing.

and goa trance