Originally Posted by
wayold
I have no intention of trying to change your mind. I'm only posting so that others reading this thread will know that your opinion is not the only one. Many people prefer to ride with flashing lights and, your commentary notwithstanding, I simply haven't heard any stories of accidents created by such lights, but plenty created by riders that weren't seen by cars. You have your opinion, I won't change that, but others reading can decide for themselves which side of the argument makes the most sense. Feel free to have the last word.
I have had to put on the brakes when I was blinded behind the wheel by some cyclist that thought that they were being safer.
And also had a close call while riding a bike last year, I was crossing a major highway on a narrow bridge, wire guards on both sides of the bridge. Near sunset, so it was light enough to see but not bright out, I had removed my sunglasses and put on ones with yellow tint. And some moron on a bike gets on the bridge coming towards me with a flashing super bright light blinded me. Fortunately I have a visor on my helmet so when I moved my head to look down, the visor shielded the bright light from my eyes, but rode for several seconds with one hand in front of my eyes which was not very safe. That moron yelled at me to get out of the way when he almost ran into me as he passed.
But, I am sure you think you are in the right so don't bother responding.