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I don't think this has been posted befo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm If it had been dated April 1st, instead of April 10th, I might well have wondered... -- Simon |
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Simon D writtificated
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm Great idea, but it needs to go from red when trundling along/accelerating to a brighter red when slowing down. IMO green means Go or Pass, which is not the message you want to give when going through a pinch point. |
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On 16 Apr 2008 11:14:33 GMT, Mark T
pleasegivegenerously@warmail*turn_up_the_heat_to_ reply*.com.invalid wrote: Simon D writtificated http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm Great idea, but it needs to go from red when trundling along/accelerating to a brighter red when slowing down. IMO green means Go or Pass, which is not the message you want to give when going through a pinch point. yea - WTF are they green for! |
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FS Simon D wrote: I don't think this has been posted befo http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm If it had been dated April 1st, instead of April 10th, I might well have wondered... There is a vid of the guy on You Tube. He does not have any lits on his bike. He also manages to either cycle past a no entry sign, or the wrong way down a one way street or something. |
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"Simon D" wrote in message ... I don't think this has been posted befo http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm If it had been dated April 1st, instead of April 10th, I might well have wondered... If folk won't pay a few quid for a rear light, why would they fork out lots of monay to look like a badly decorated Xmas tree. It's a poorly thought out series of solutions looking for problems to solve. |
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In article , vernon wrote:
"Simon D" wrote in message ... I don't think this has been posted befo http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/te...00/7340963.stm If it had been dated April 1st, instead of April 10th, I might well have wondered... If folk won't pay a few quid for a rear light, why would they fork out lots of monay to look like a badly decorated Xmas tree. Who says he didn't have a rear light as well? He claims: "I noticed that cars passed me more slowly, gave me more room, and that the drivers and passengers were even making eye contact." It's plausible that something unusual would have that effect - we've seen recumbent riders make similar comments. Of course if it is just being unusual that makes the difference it does mean that if it became popular, it would be useless. And more evidence than the anecdotal experience of the designer would be nice, obviously. |
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kimble wrote:
I've recently been experimenting with a home-brew brake light on my bike, built into the shell of a mudguard-mounted dynamo light. Like those of motor vehicles, it's bright red when braking, and off when not. I have a separate, rack-mounted rear light for visibility. It's actually a significant-deceleration-of-rear-wheel light (using a magnetic pick-up from a cheap Chinese bike computer and some microcontroller logic[1]), so functionally similar to the jacket. Measuring deceleration is a great way to do this on a bike, as it works when you're slowed by gradients (including speed bumps) or gusts of wind, which can be just as significant as deliberate braking. I have noticed some anecdotal reduction in tailgating through pinch points and especially at speed bumps, where presumably its novelty value (and message in a language they understand) serves to get drivers' attention. this I can see the advantage of - I kinda liked those brake pads with red leds in them (anyone try them?) which I just couldn't bring myself to get |
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On 17/04/2008 17:37, big_one wrote:
I kinda liked those brake pads with red leds in them (anyone try them?) Yes. Kinetics were selling a load off cheap a few years ago (the batteries had passed their stated expiry date). It's a nice idea, but with just a single small LED in each block they're not going to add much to the visibility you get from a decent rear light. I paid less for them than I'd usually pay for brake blocks, and they were perfectly adequate blocks, so I was happy enough but I wouldn't say they were worth paying full price for. which I just couldn't bring myself to get -- Danny Colyer http://www.redpedals.co.uk Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often "The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis |
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