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Moan: Constantly dazzled by other commuters
Anyone else noticed this year there's an increasing number of overly bright front (and rear) lights, or is it just me? My commute has an extended part over an unlit moor but mostly lit cycle paths and I'd say people have their lights on the wrong setting or pointing at eye level approx 50% of the time.
Maybe my eyes have just got more sensitive but I'm finding myself having to ask people to please turn their daytime strobe off as I can't see where I'm going.
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Same goes with car headlights for those of us road riders.
Yeah, it's a similar sort of arms race it seems. On a pitch black country lane, yeah, 1500lm is necessary, but on an urban cycle path less so.
But this one goes up to 1511 lumens, though?
Nothing new I suspect. Where manufactures can with new tech, some will, then gradually most will. And "excellent" yesterday becomes inadequate because many folks judge by a combination of price and where the thing sits in relation to other products available now. (Whether they have a scoobie-doo or not).
Anyway - very happy with my up-to-3-W of dynamo-powered-lighting for most (sub)urban pottering. I think most of my salience (where people are looking for cyclists, or looking at all) comes from moving reflectives. But my lights are enough to see by and be seen by pedestrians on shared-use spaces.
BUT on a rare late-night country ramble, yes, I'll amp up with some rechargables. FWIW am just old enough to remember how bad the Ever ready battery jobs were - even with far more acute youthful eyes ...