Originally Posted by ItsJustMe

Uh, no. Even proper PBSF are pretty weak by today's standards. When I drive past them on the road they're not really all that noticeable. The clones are even worse. I've got a couple of PBSFs, they were great when I bought them 6 or 7 years ago, but we can do far better now.

It depends somewhat on your environment. I feel that I need really good taillights - I ride in pitch black on deserted rural roads at 5 in the morning with drivers who are half asleep, sucking on a coffee doing 65 MPH on 2 lane roads with no shoulder and blind corners and hills. I need to wake them the heck up really fast, not just be some vague red thing floating along over...BAM...what was that?