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Indicator Cycle lights
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Bikes: You can't leave stuff on them, but you spend all your time taking all the stuff off the bike when you get to your destination. You have to stow everything in a bag or a pocket. It inevitably gets buried by other stuff and takes even longer to re-attach to your bike and leave. Bike lights buried at the bottom of your bag, inevitably turned on by being bumped, quietly illuminating the bottom of the bag and flattening the battery before it comes time to use it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Sounds like a nice implementation. However, I would still suggest that indicators on bicycles are a) unnecessary in most cases and b) potentially confusing.
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Posted 9 years ago # -
Useful for those situations where you want to keep both hands on the bars for various reasons of control (road surface, traffic etc). but I've got ruddy long arms, with ruddy big 'ands, and pedestrians still walk out in front when I've been indicating for twenty yards before the turn. I suspect the lights would be relied on less by pedestrians, and not really seen that well by cars behind...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Surely you just switch both on at the same time and it allows you to park your bike anywhere...
- In the middle of the lane (kickstand owners only)
- Locked to a parked car
- Propped in between two double parked cars
- In front of a dropped kerb
- On the pavement
- Inside your favourite shop
- In the middle of a park
- In the middle of the canal towpathWhy not?
Posted 9 years ago # -
@edd1e_h wins.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Just had an email on our bug list from someone who has these. Anyone on here?
Posted 9 years ago # -
These crowd-funded ideas (which usually seem to be about lights and visibility) are always, well, a bit rubbish. I don't think a bike is wide enough for indicators to be other than confusing.
However, here's one I want which is also about visibility. I want gloves with reflective arrows on the front and back so when I stick my arm out, my intentions will be clear in car headlights on those dark dreich nights.
Posted 9 years ago # -
@ih I did that on some of mine with reflective tape. Worked well until they wore out/got lost.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Winglights (www.cycl.bike) and Signal Pod work for me in my commute. The two things I need are:
- the ability to signal cars behind me that I'm turning right without putting out my right hand, as I'm using my left hand to brake hard (it's downhill) and it's tough to do that with one hand on the bars.
- the ability to signal cars behind me I'm taking over the lane as there is not room for them to pass me (unless they are happy to move over to the oncoming lane).
For both of these the signal pod is great and certainly works well.
The winglights are really only useful for the first one to let oncoming traffic know what I'm doing - I'm not at all confident that cars behind me can see them, depends on where the car is relative to me, and also if I'm in a turn or not. I just like the design.
But I think commuting bikes should come with indicators fitted, and the cars would get used to seeing them. The big win for the winglights is they actually look like the indicators a car would expect.
Nigel
Posted 9 years ago # -
The Winglights aren't designed for drop bars. Can anyone recommend an alternative that is designed for backward-facing bar ends?
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