[Slartibartfast]

Anyone else noticed this year there’s an increasing number of overly bright front (and rear) lights, or is it just me? My commute has an extended part over an unlit moor but mostly lit cycle paths and I’d say people have their lights on the wrong setting or pointing at eye level approx 50% of the time.
Maybe my eyes have just got more sensitive but I’m finding myself having to ask people to please turn their daytime strobe off as I can’t see where I’m going.

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[Slartibartfast]

Yeah, it’s a similar sort of
Yeah, it’s a similar sort of arms race it seems. On a pitch black country lane, yeah, 1500lm is necessary, but on an urban cycle path less so.

[bobbinogs]

Same goes with car headlights
Same goes with car headlights for those of us road riders.

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