Originally Posted by
MikeyMK
E-bike levers have electric switches in them, so put that to a red LED security floodlight via a battery, and your brake light needs are sorted. I have a few spare for postage cost. One lever, bit of wire, and a red battery lamp, job done in ten mins.
However, with the necessity issue, i just don't think a working brake light will translate. Nobody expects a bicycle to have a brake light, they will just see a red light. With something wrong with it.
A flashing red light is a brake/fog/tail light in one. A motorist knows there's a bike there. It's not going so fast, they're gaining on it, it's a hazard. With a brake light, it won't matter if the cyclist is braking or not, as they're still gonna be getting in the way anyway.
Yes it's easy to make a brake light. So without there even being a challenge/project in it, i really don't see the point.
I am starting not to see the point either.
A couple of our forum posters have the same perspective as you.
But often people who think alike gather together and so are for all intents and purposes one source.
Then other bikers in other forums mentioned,without being asked,that they didn't think a brake light
would make much of a difference. That's a clear confirmation.
For my own part I do see the point but that is just a single perspective.
I still see the need for,but no longer the efficacy of,a brake light.