Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
I don't think their copy is accurate. "The ONLY once piece light effective day and night." I've got an Axiom Pulse 60 and I've been told by many people (and my observations of vehicles around me also indicates) that the light is QUITE visible in the daytime.
and it's $35.
Dinotte's theory seems to be that unless you are actually injuring the retinas of people, it's not bright enough.
I have so many tail lights it's ridiculous. There is a point where driver behavior changes dramatically. 60 lumens, in my experience, doesn't invoke that change. If you haven't ridden with one of the very high output tail lights, you ought to and I think you'll see what I mean. Drivers slow down and carefully go wide around me. If they can't pass, they wait. That doesn't happen with lesser lights.
I first noticed it with my Dinotte 140R (around 100 lumens by eyeball) and the effect on driver behavior was stronger with the 300R and 400R that I've used. I also get the same thing with a Niteflux Red Zone 8. The new Dinotte could be a winner because of the enhanced side visibility which the 300R lacks.
Originally Posted by
mrbubbles
North American drivers are crazy, more is better. With the dinotte level brightness, I had cops driving up to me to find out what I was (because it looked like emergency vehicles from afar), that gives drivers a lot of time to react, they aren't doing that w/ crap off-the-shelf dynamo taillights.
Or the smaller less bright tail lights. I like your explanation.
J.