GriddleCakes WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT MOTORCYCLES or CARS. And yes I use a blinker on the front because it does attract attention, but I don't use one during the day, because I have yet to see a blinking headlight used in the day that was bright enough to attract attention. Now maybe the few that I've seen were just weaker older versions, I don't know, I didn't pull them over and ask. But in broad daylight the size of a bicycle light at 1" in diameter will just get lost in the background. Maybe if you buy a $1,200 headlight putting out 1,400 lumens then you may be right, that might work. Because you see, to have the same intensity of a car headlight you need 1,000 lumens to be the same as an older 9006 car bulb on dim, not 700 or so; but there's still that nasty little 1" diameter lens. And a lot of newer cars are running over 3,000 lumens. And guess how many lights I've seen on the road living in a city of 300,000 people that were putting out that kind of light levels (based on just the older 9006)? ZERO. In fact my little 250 lumen light is among the brightest I've seen!! So super bright lights over 450 lumens are not the norm.
Maybe some day a 1,400+ lumen light will be cheap enough for the general population to buy one, but that's not happening anytime soon.
Last edited by rekmeyata; 11-09-10 at 08:06 PM.