Originally Posted by
canklecat
Last weekend on a group ride I saw one cyclist using a combo red/white very bright flasher on the rear. Didn't distract me and made the bike very visible during the night ride. But some folks seem to be more sensitive than others to bright flashers. My idea of a bright flasher would be what emergency vehicles use - I haven't seen any bike light nearly as bright as a police car, ambulance or fire truck emergency flashers. And we cope with those.
I ended up behind a cyclist with an extremely bright tail light doing the chilly hilly ride, it was a dark, rainy day, and I wear glasses, it made it virtually impossible for me to see through the kaleidoscope of brightly illuminated raindrops.