New Cats Eyes?

Peddle Up!
Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
edited October 2011 in Road beginners
Riding the BHF Warwickshire ride this morning I noticed that a couple of stretches of road had cats eyes of a design I'd not seen before. Basically they were translucent hemispheres that stood about 3cm above the road. I'm sure they depress if a car runs over them but the one I hit with my front wheel didn't and nearly had me off! :?

Anyone else come across these little blighters?
Purveyor of "up" :)

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  • pilot_pete
    pilot_pete Posts: 2,120
    Yeah, all over the place round here too. (Cheshire, Derbys, Staffs)

    I am not sure they do depress like the old style, don't vehicle tyres just deform as they go over them?

    PP
  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Err, just don't ride over the little feckers!

    Incidentally we have some really fancy ones on our new road here. They actually light up rather than reflect light back, I think they're solar powered.
  • furrag
    furrag Posts: 481
    PeteMadoc wrote:
    Err, just don't ride over the little feckers!

    Incidentally we have some really fancy ones on our new road here. They actually light up rather than reflect light back, I think they're solar powered.
    Seen a number of these recently.

    Descending downhill, it felt like I was landing a plane on the Krypton Factor.
  • thegibdog
    thegibdog Posts: 2,106
    Furrag wrote:
    PeteMadoc wrote:
    Err, just don't ride over the little feckers!

    Incidentally we have some really fancy ones on our new road here. They actually light up rather than reflect light back, I think they're solar powered.
    Seen a number of these recently.

    Descending downhill, it felt like I was landing a plane on the Krypton Factor.
    Pull-up! Pull-up! Pull-up!

    I've noticed these recently, I kept turning round expecting a car to be behind me. Hope they're better than the ones in our garden, they only last about half an hour at the moment.
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  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    They've had the light up ones in Blackfriars tunnel for a while now, given those ones are in a tunnel I'm sure they're not powered by the sun. Great for short tunnels as most cars don't turn their lights on and so don't "see" the cats eyes.
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  • Rodu
    Rodu Posts: 16
    When a car goes over them, they depress into the road generating some more energy for the charge :)

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