Easy on the night lights guys

[dirtypot]

If the front lights had an easily accessible 'dipped beam' switch then there would be something to complain about.  But all lights have a button on the back which has to scroll through all of your available options every time - low beam, high beam, strobe.  My buddy has four light brightness settings excluding the strobe, so six settings if you include the off position.  It's not logical to be going from bright to dim all the time on your rides depending on if you're going up or down or have people coming towards you.

Until all lights have a dipped beam switch that's easy to flick on and off, you're just going to have to deal with the sun that I've bolted onto my handlebars.

The End.

[Tubehunter]

If the front lights had an easily accessible 'dipped beam' switch then there would be something to complain about.  But all lights have a button on the back which has to scroll through all of your available options every time - low beam, high beam, strobe.  My buddy has four light brightness settings excluding the strobe, so six settings if you include the off position.  It's not logical to be going from bright to dim all the time on your rides depending on if you're going up or down or have people coming towards you.

Until all lights have a dipped beam switch that's easy to flick on and off, you're just going to have to deal with the sun that I've bolted onto my handlebars.

The End.

 

Nought DP! The lights are attached with an O ring 99% of the time. Slide the light portion forward and down instead of pointing 500m ahead and you wont light up the sky (and possibly blind someone coming towards you)

[dirtypot]

Nought DP! The lights are attached with an O ring 99% of the time. Slide the light portion forward and down instead of pointing 500m ahead and you wont light up the sky (and possibly blind someone coming towards you)

 

But then the road is too bright and it hurts my eyeballs.

[edgarblount]

Look on the bright side, they are at least riding with lights.

[Patchelicious]

The answer, as with previous Rhodes drive threads is...... drum rolllllll.....

 

GENERAL CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS.

[RocknRolla]

Look on the bright side, they are at least riding with lights.

I think the problem is that the OP was looking on the bright side, then he got dazzled....

 

not such a bright spark now eh?

[Patchelicious]

Look on the bright side, they are at least riding with lights.

 

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/10484893.jpg

[T-Bob]

 

GENERAL CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS.

 

You're a funny man, this is CT. With this much comedy it must be a Friday!

[Stoffies1]

I have been meaning to post something similar to this about cyclists riding on the road with 1200 lumen light flashing during sunrise & during day.

 

 

Although attracting a lot of attention to yourself the 1200 lumen light is very irritating and blinding but most importantly very difficult to judge the distance of the cyclist.

 

Rather leave your light on is my suggestion. 

[Marius]

I got a 3000 lumen helmet and 700 lumen bar on front - disco mode when I go train in the mornings. Rather to much than to little. 

[Hennie VR]

The solution is already out on the market...... Don't be blinded, just get some photochromic lenses for your night rides 

[Quintus]

The solution is already out on the market...... Don't be blinded, just get some photochromic lenses for your night rides 

Don't photochromatics dim with UV light, light in our visual spectrum.

[dirtypot]

Don't photochromatics dim with UV light, light in our visual spectrum.

 

Don't come and cloud this thread with good reason and common sense.

It's Friday, don't you know