Rear light for road bike
biked123
Posts: 16
It should be so simple all I want is a rear light that fits the following profile but for the life of me I can't find one.
* Red led-based
* Battery powered
* Waterproof
* Bright!
* Reasonably priced
* Vertical strip of lights (vertically mounted not horizontal so it's inline with the seat-post)
* 180º visibility
* A mode which has half the lights on constant and the other half on pulse/flashing mode
The combination of the last 3 are the most important, it seems like such an obvious configuration/set of requirements. At the moment I have 2 cat-eye lights on the rear one constant 180º visibility light and one 3-led horizontal on flashing (so not ideal)
Here's what it looks like at the moment if you're interested.. a bit cramped!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12739357/Photos ... -setup.jpg
If you know of any rear lights that fit this profile I'd love to hear from you!
Thanks in advance!
* Red led-based
* Battery powered
* Waterproof
* Bright!
* Reasonably priced
* Vertical strip of lights (vertically mounted not horizontal so it's inline with the seat-post)
* 180º visibility
* A mode which has half the lights on constant and the other half on pulse/flashing mode
The combination of the last 3 are the most important, it seems like such an obvious configuration/set of requirements. At the moment I have 2 cat-eye lights on the rear one constant 180º visibility light and one 3-led horizontal on flashing (so not ideal)
Here's what it looks like at the moment if you're interested.. a bit cramped!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12739357/Photos ... -setup.jpg
If you know of any rear lights that fit this profile I'd love to hear from you!
Thanks in advance!
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biked123 wrote:It should be so simple all I want is a rear light that fits the following profile but for the life of me I can't find one.
* Red led-based
* Battery powered
* Waterproof
* Bright!
* Reasonably priced
* Vertical strip of lights (vertically mounted not horizontal so it's inline with the seat-post)
* 180º visibility
* A mode which has half the lights on constant and the other half on pulse/flashing mode
The combination of the last 3 are the most important, it seems like such an obvious configuration/set of requirements. At the moment I have 2 cat-eye lights on the rear one constant 180º visibility light and one 3-led horizontal on flashing (so not ideal)
Here's what it looks like at the moment if you're interested.. a bit cramped!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12739357/Photos ... -setup.jpg
If you know of any rear lights that fit this profile I'd love to hear from you!
Thanks in advance!
Thats a pretty specific lighting requirement you have. Maybe post in buying advice rather than training.
I have a Cat Eye (LD600 or something like that) which has two rows of three, separately switched so I can have one constant and one flashing row, I guess I could mount it vertically. Not sure about the 180 visibility0 -
Cateye TL-LD610.0
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Why half on and half flashing? To me, that sounds a little overly exact.
I use;
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cateye-tl-ld600-led-rear-light/
and a similar Cateye (older) that's only 4 LEDs and slightly squarer. Gives me no worries as if the batteries fail in 1, they're unlikely to fail at the same time in the other, plus I can do combinations of flash, permanent, pattern etc... .0 -
I bought one of these:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/12-led-3-mode-rgb-led-bike-light-with-mount-3-aaa-23039
so impressed bought another three in case they stop doing them
I use it with a cateye and two magic shine front lights.0
