Cycling & bikes - DIY LIGHTS

On 5/17/2015 3:44 PM, wrote:

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112922/article.html

Note that projector-style auto lights use a shield or mask to prevent
blinding other road users. This DIY hack would instead produce a round
beam that probably would be blinding.

I've recently ridden with some folks with irritatingly bright lights.
In one case, I was leading a night ride, and trying to use my eyeglass
mirror to keep tabs on other riders, to be sure nobody got dropped or
had trouble. I had to ask one rider to point his headlight downward,
because it was blinding me so much that I couldn't see anyone else back
there.

On another ride, a shady ride on a cloudy day, one guy had a taillight
that was so bright I tried to keep other riders between me and the
intense red blinking. I finally gave up and passed the guy, then stayed
ahead of him.

As mentioned before, we're seeing escalation on this issue. Soon lots
of riders won't feel "safe" enough unless they're irritating the hell
out of other riders with their glaring lights.

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- Frank Krygowski