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OK - who's selling flashing blue front bike lights in Edinburgh? I've seen three bikes in the last few weeks on my commuting route with them - each with the weak blue flasher as their only source of light.
Not sure how the guy on the Roseburn path could see where he was going this morning on the section where the streetlights were off.
Isn't there a law about blue lights being illegal for use by anyone other than the emergency services? Or does that apply to motor vehicles only?
Probably cheap Chinese lights bought off fleaBay.
I have a few old front lights in good working order - tempted to carry them and donate one to each blue-light or no-light rider I pass.
Not sure if people would take kindly to a stranger stopping them and offering them a free, used light though ;-)
A few years ago you could buy a blue front light from Argos. It had the same shape as the Cateye LD600 Knightrider-style rear light.
Even now there are some dubious lights out there with blue LEDs. Also remember that white LEDs are generally blue LEDs with a yellow phosphor, and many cheaply made white LEDs are distinctly lilac in colour because the phosphor deposition is poorly controlled.
Probably cheap Chinese lights bought off fleaBay.
I'm pretty sure a couple of years back Tesco were selling a cheap set of "bike lights" with a red and a green.
I think Arellcat is correct - you're seeing VERY cheap white LEDs which appear blueish in hue.
I suspect that EUSA might have been handing them out during freshers week?
Or very expensive HID Audi lights transplanted to a bike.
Hmmm.... got home to find a small parcel from China on the door mat.
It contains 2 blue flashing lights that neither Mrs HC or I can remember ordering.
Maybe they are just sending them out to random cyclists...
This sounds like a Dr who plot
Tempted to get one, it might stop some drivers doing IDGAF manouvers as they might think you are the police :)
I would also have other lights of course.
Twin red flashing front lights on the Craigleith path last night.
I often wonder if some people who ride bikes ever take in what they see around them, like every vehicle on the road having white lights at the front and red at the back...
Red-light-forward cyclist on George Street last week too. I hope it is just the change of the seasons catching people unawares and try to improvise, using the logic that some light is better than no light.
The red fronts become an utter nightmare when it's dark on the NEPN. As was the white flashing rear light I encountered last year.
Makes it very difficult to work out either why you're catching up with someone incredibly quickly, or why that person coming towards you never gets closer but still seems to maintain the same distance!
I don't understand red on the front at all. If for some reason I couldn't avoid cycling and only had one light it would go on the rear every time.
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