Exposure Flare on Group Rides

MartinGT

I have an exposure flare as a rear light. When I meet up with my cycle club having experianced being sat behind someone with a flare, its damn bright.

Instead of using a different light has anyone sorted it so I am not blinding someone behind me? Am I totally being a daft thing and missing the obvious? It wouldnt be a first!

svetty

If a rear light is bright enough to be seen by a car some distance behind it will inevitably be bright to a following rider 2 feet away. Perhaps only use it when conditions are murky enough that you are at significant risk of being hit?

MartinGT

Aye. I usually go straight to the meet up from work and that's the rear I use all the time. Think I may get a 'weaker' light,or one that I can change functions

mugensi

If no one else has the same light then cycle at the rear so the brightest light is at the back, for added safety.

fenix

Ask the people behind if it is blinding them ?
Turn it off when you're in a group ride -get a weaker light to use in that case.

bianchimoon

I have experience of being behind A very bright rear light on a group ride, couldn’t see the rear wheel of bike in front or when I dropped back a little couldn’t see pot holes either, quiet dangerous, easily solved by getting the rider to dip the light down towards road

shirley_basso

Riders on group night rides should have solid state rear lights and ideally solid front ones too.

It's bloody blinding being behind flashing rear lights and exposure lights are particularly bad especially when on pulse mode

mrdsgs

the newer version of the flare, the tracer, has 3 different brightness settings and the newer versions still have REAKT and "Peloton mode", which I have never seen in the flesh but are supposed to automatically reduce brightness when it senses another light in front of you unless you are the back rider and it then goes brighter!

dannbodge

Stick some masking tape over the lens it for group rides and then remove it when out solo.
The tape should keep it visible but will make it less harsh

Vino'sGhost

this is a serious problem, as a car driver in the countryside these super bright lights a re a menace, very distracting. Yes i can see a cyclist is there No icant then see the hedge or much else.

I even went to get my eyes tested all working properly

pippi_langsamer-2

Just dip it right down so it floods the tarmac- rears are more effective this way anyway (if they're powerful). You won't blind any riders behind you, nor cars approaching you.