http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Nice try en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:52:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16406 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:48:03 +0000 smsm1 16406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've seen someone with a red light front and rear. It kinda confused me as I was approaching them in the other direction. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16369 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:23:48 +0000 ruggtomcat 16369@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>please be nice, remember there are n00bs everywhere. I cant look after evey duckling I send cycling :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16367 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:23:40 +0000 Min 16367@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Came up behind a woman I thought had no rear light on the way home this evening. When I stopped behind her at traffic lights I could see she had a light stuffed in to the netting of her bag which was bungeed on to her pannier. Might have been okay except that the light was pointing forwards and not back.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16364 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:23:21 +0000 wee folding bike 16364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw someone with a white Knog on the back of her hat this morning. I mentioned that it wasn't a great idea, not illegal but possibly not too smart.</p> <p>She was stopped with her chain on the small sprocket so I knew I would beat her away from the lights. Didn't see her again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16350 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:57:57 +0000 chdot 16350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"small lightstick" "Might as well not bother"</p> <p>Unlikely to legally adequate either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16348 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:54:08 +0000 Smudge 16348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most mornings just by the chimney sweeps shop I pass an oncoming commuter who has the borg yellow jacket but whose only (feeble) illumination appears to be a small lightstick clipped to his rucksack strap.<br /> Might as well not bother :-/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16340 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:16:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 16340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those odd really low power greenish front lights are astonishingly poor. And yes, I've come up behind a few cyclists who I thought had no lights on, only to find they had a truly awful tiny LED on the back there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16338 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:07:03 +0000 kaputnik 16338@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes, see quite a few long coats obscuring tail lights on Melville Drive. Also there was a girl coming out of South Gyle Broadway in the pouring rain a few weeks back who I thought was one of the sans lumieres until as I passed I saw she had one of those flare light-stick things hanging down from her rucksack. I'm not sure if it was low on batteries, but it did a mightily ineffective job. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16337 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:59:21 +0000 steveo 16337@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I seen (barely) a lass last week with a blinker on her seat post unfortunately her mudguard almost completely obscured the light the rest of it was dealt with by her courier bag. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16334 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:47:25 +0000 wingpig 16334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few years back I saw a few instances of people creaking along Melville Drive with lights illuminating their rear brake, the top of their back wheel and the area inside the long black coat when such coats popped briefly back into student-fashion.</p> <p>I occasionally pop a broken-clipped rear blinker in a rucsac pocket beneath the fluoro rain cover for a diffused effect when it's raining but only in conjunction with two other uncovered rear lights. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1665#post-16332 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:38:45 +0000 Min 16332@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Saw an excellent(?) lighting failure on friday evening. A cyclist in front of me appeared to not have a back light but as I got closer I noticed there was a red glow around the back area. They had clipped their light to their belt where it hung in what would have been a good position to be seen. And then put their jacket on over the top.</p> <p>D'oh. </p>