Marland wrote:


Flashing lights on cycles are more down to improving battery life.

It makes them more visible to motorists - peripheral vision is far more
sensitive to movement or flashing...

Yes, but it's much more difficult to judge distance and it doesn't
identify the light as belonging to a cyclist.

Skipping lightly over the illegality.


The law got changed to accommodate the sods over 10 years ago, even before
many attached the lights to themselves rather than the bike so not being
bike lamps they were just lights so not specifically illegal.

Trouble is the twinkling lights then were not too bright,now with high
power lamps available it is like someone aiming a lighthouse at on coming
traffic.
If one is set too high and dazzles me I've taken to returning to high beam
with every flash of theirs.

GH

I you sure that is a wholly wise statement to publish on Usenet? If
you were unfortunate enough to have a serious accident, dredging that up
might convert a charge of causing death by careless driving (or even
NFA) to one of murder. For the avoidance of doubt the argument applies
equally to doing the same to another car driver; but you might not
want to do that because of the perceived danger to your own safety.

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Roger Hayter