Thread: Do Ya Plan On Riding At Night? Well Do Ya Punk?
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Old 11-02-08 | 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Wogsterca
Probably the best setup is to use railway format, two of your lamps, mounted reasonably low on the fork, use some plexiglass to make them so the bulbs can't break, then a flashing LED mounted up on the bars, The low mounted fork lights are to see with, the bar mounted flasher is to be seen.
I've tried low mounted lights and don't like them at all. Shadows are too elongated to see the object clearly. It's really accentuated in off-road situations. Lights hanging below the bar are about as low as I want to go.

As for front flashers, I'm not a believer. The amount of light that I pump out would overwhelm just about any flasher. Since installing my current system, I don't have any issues with motorists not noticing me. I look like a bloody lighthouse

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