News website criticised for reheating year old survey about cyclists jumping red lights… then filming video about it in a car + more on the live blog

@HarrogateSpa No they're not, they are reporting on a new video giving opinions on the old one, not just recycling the old one.

@mitsky They're not kept in Great Britain but in Northern Ireland, I read quite recently, 52% of motorcycle KSIs were classified as being the fault of the motorcyclist. I assume this included single vehicle incidents, which would obviously increase the proportions. I believe single vehicle incidents with motorcycles, i.e. they crashed without interference from any other road user, make up about 25% of motorcycle KSIs, so we can assume that in incidents involving other vehicles or pedestrians motorcyclists were responsible for about a third.

'News website criticised for reheating...' You're doing the same thing as them.

I love the design but it often feels like Exposure don't seek or take customer feedback into account. I've also had issues where a TRACR, a Strada (original), and a Diablo have all needed to be returned for warranty repairs for different reasons. Little surprised that with the addition of USB-C charging on the new Strada that they didn't go one step further and allow owners to reprogram the lighting modes themselves, or exclude certain combinations, or add wireless blip support for low/full beam changes.

@mdavidford It gets it below the £500K grant of authority level / avoids proper scrutiny and will almost certainly cost more than £500K when implemented due to "unforeseen construction challenges" In other words, it's a done deal. Meanwhile the councils complain about not having enough money.

I believe motorcyclists are the group that suffer the most KSIs per road user/mile (or per something) but it would be good if the stats were available to show how many of them were the fault of the motorcyclist themself rather than another road user.

Exactly what has happened - he's been deselected due to his apparent lack of ability not to say offensive, discriminatory, and disrespectful nonsense.

I'm generally a fan of Exposure lights, but was disappointed with the changes they made to the OMS on the latest Sirius (Mk11) which IMHO was a significant step backwards. On the old version (I think I had the Mk7), I basically never needed to change away from Programme 1, which offered three steady levels (H/M/L). These covered all my needs - the High level offered maximum brightness (used for unlit paths etc.) at the cost of a relatively short runtime; the Low level wasn't super bright but lasted all day; and Medium in between offered a good balance of brightness and runtime (I typically used Medium for commuting on lit urban roads). Claimed runtimes were 1.5/4/10 hours in H/M/L respectively. The new version only offers two steady levels per programme. If you want the maximum brightness to be available, you still have to be in Programme 1 and use the High level, which is fine, but the only other steady level available in that Programme is the Medium, and whilst the output has increased, the claimed runtime is only 3 hours. Which is OK for just the commute (in my case), but starts to be questionable if you add in any extra trips or training on the same day. You have to change to one of the other programmes if you want a steady light lasting more than 3 hours, but then you lose access to the maximum brightness level. The other change they have made is that now the flashing mode is just cycled through with short presses along with the steady modes. This is annoying - if you're on Medium and want to get to High, you have to cycle through the daybright flash, but the last thing you want when you've just entered an unlit section of path at night is for your light to start strobing! On the old version short presses just cycled through the steady modes, with the flash mode accessed with a longer press. I assume they've made these changes because some people complained the OMS was a bit complicated and confusing. Whilst it definitely does require a bit of a learning curve, I would say it's simple enough once you get your head around it. Furthermore, I don't think they've made it any less confusing - the OMS is still there and is still accessed in the same slightly roundabout way (turn light off, hold button, count flashes); they've just made it far less useful and indeed far more likely that you will actually need to change Programme on a regular basis, rather than set-and-forget.

Thanks for the reasoned responses folks, keeping the load low and weight on the front wheel both sound about right, I hadn't really thought about the load being higher to the rear to clear drive trains and proportionally making the front much lighter

@Rendel Harris he should get back on road.cc now it does!