Re: What commuting lights do you use?

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anotherdeadhero

Cpt Safety enters the room …
I have a Cateye LD1100 zip-tied onto my rack, a Blackburn Mars 3 on my seatpost, rear reflector, and red reflective flash on my mudguards. Wheel reflectors, orange reflective trim round my MTB spd pedals (not those stoopid irritating black plastic things), a BLT Doppler on the bars twinned with a MTE p7 torch for ~500 lumen kicking out the front (I rarely use it full power in traffic – dazzle hazard, handy on unlit lanes though), white reflective tape down either fork leg.

But then I commute in Bristol … so ppl still don’t see me …

Rear lights, wish I could find a good one. The cateye is very bright, but the flash modes go in and out of sync with each other, so if you are standing >50 yards away it dosn’t always look like it is flashing. The Blackburn isn’t as bright and isn’t as good side view, but at least its smaller, lighter and has a far far far far superior mount – unlike the cateye, which uses the same mount as smaller lighter siblings, so tendsto break mounts. Irritatingly it require a silly small screwdriver to get the batteries out, unlike the cateye twist to unlock battery access.