High power Amber front lights ( e.g. Dinotte )

tri-x

Anyone tried one yet ?

Running 600 lumens on the main lights nulls out my flashers - so I feel I'm no longer getting as quickly noticed on the inside.
Cars pulling out of junctions seem to see a car headlight and expect it to be crawling along with the rest of the traffic, but I'm doing 20 ... 25 mph on a good day.

I thinking it would be nice to add either a 200 lumen white flasher or a 140 lumen orange flasher.

RVLR only mentions white flashing LEDs at the front - so I'm not sure how the authorities would look upon them. Orange is okay on pedals and wheels - so why not fixed ?

tri-x

Thinking about this over night:

Amber would probably represent slow moving vehicle, which is not the impression I want to give.

So it must be more white flashing power ( or less non-flashing power ).

PHcp

tri-x wrote:

Thinking about this over night:

So it must be more white flashing power ( or less non-flashing power ).

Or with some distance between them. A flashing light on your head would be distinguishable from a bar mounted steady light, however bright that was and the flasher needn't be super bright or expensive. There's no need to be attracting attention from those 5 miles away or low flying aircraft, something like the Petzel XP would be plenty bright enough.
I wouldn't use a flashing amber light, I'd be concerned that it might be confused with an indicator.

BentMikey

I'd rather not have flashing lights on my bike, because they make cars think you're a bicycle. You'll get more space and respect if your lights are steady and very bright. They'll not be sure if you're a motor vehicle.

Getting quickly noticed "on the inside" doesn't bode well with your 20-25mph statement. I wouldn't want to be on the inside at those sorts of speeds in most situations, or if I was overtaking traffic.

tri-x

BentMikey wrote:

Getting quickly noticed "on the inside" doesn't bode well with your 20-25mph statement. I wouldn't want to be on the inside at those sorts of speeds in most situations, or if I was overtaking traffic.

There is an official cycle lane, complete with orange tarmac, on the inside, but cars at joining roads still need to pull across it, and see stationary traffic as a good opportunity to edge out.

PHCP wrote:

Or with some distance between them

I think I will give that a go

BentMikey

tri-x wrote:

There is an official cycle lane, complete with orange tarmac, on the inside, but cars at joining roads still need to pull across it, and see stationary traffic as a good opportunity to edge out.

Yes, I wouldn't be going fast at all if there are junctions and stationary traffic in my lane, and it's more motivation to be on the offside, though you still have to be careful of cross-junction traffic coming out. Just because a cycle lane is there isn't a good reason to use it if it's dangerous to be in that position, hence my comment re overtaking.