Old 04-04-15 | 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by spare_wheel
No. Thank You. I use head lights in the city primarily to see things that are not the grass or road, such as, my ninja walking/biking neighbors and darting fur people. Philips lights and german stvzo standards are not designed to help cyclists -- they are designed to not annoy motorists. When it comes to my neighbors safety, I will happily annoy an infinite number of motorists!

Huh? either you're so incorrect it isn't funny or you're trying to be funny!

On the incorrect side of what you said, the Philips light is actually very noticeable just as a car or motorcycle light is very noticeable to oncoming vehicles. I did a test with my wife by mounting both my Cygolite MityCross 480 and the Philips on my handlebar and had her approach me at night in downpouring rain, absolute worse conditions for a bicyclist, when she rounded the the corner from 4 blocks away the first light she noticed due to it's much larger size lens and increased brilliance was the Philips; I noticed something too, I could see the road better with the Philips because it was slicing through the rain rather than hitting the rain drops high and reflecting back, I could do that with the MityCross but I had to re-aim the light down toward the ground in front of the bike which gave me far less forward lighting than the Philips had.

I've even had cops tell me that they could see me from a much further distance quicker than normal lights they see and wanted to know what light it was.

Handlebar mounted light will not annoy drivers as much as a helmet mounted light will, because with a helmet mounted light you can aim the light at a drivers side window or into the front windshield which is why I use the Mitycross as a helmet light (I didn't do that though with test with my wife I mentioned earlier). The Mitycross is a bit weird to use as a helmet light but because the headlight head is so small and light no problem with mounting that but the battery is slightly bulky and mounts toward the rear of the helmet; someday I'll buy a brighter all in one light/battery system for the helmet, but right now it works fine so I'm not in a hurry.
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