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Tail lights with good "spread"?

Old 10-21-10 | 02:31 PM
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Bikes: '09 Felt F55, '84 Masi Cran Criterium, (2)'86 Schwinn Pelotons, '86 Look Equippe Hinault, '09 Globe Live 3 (dogtaxi), '94 Greg Lemond, '99 GT Pulse Kinesis

I'm a big fan of the Ravx Super Sight and use it during the daytime. It takes two AA's and has four different blink-modes. I get compliments (and some complaints from exploitative wheelsuckers) on it all the time.
Whenever I check out my profile's reflection in shop windows (silly, vain creature, I freely admit this) I'm always pleased at how bright & visible it is.
Plus it's quite lightweight & aero!


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Old 10-21-10 | 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
Note: B&M 4D toplight has 2 more LED's on the sides, added .. over the ... 2D, that fixes the Spread issue.

4D toplight permanent is battery, add features of senso, and plus .. dark turn on, and dynamo power, for a bit more $
still have battery to run as backup and standlight
I bought this, thinking it would make the perfect rear light - dynamo power + battery backup right? It didn't work that way, so I replaced it with a regular dynamo light.

I think the problem was that unlike a regular dynamo light, you still had to turn the rear light on and off with it's own switch. It might have been a relatively small thing, but that was one of the advantages of a dynamo light - I turned the front light on and the rear light turned on automatically. More convenient, didn't forget to turn the rear light on, and I could turn the rear light on while riding.
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Old 10-21-10 | 04:08 PM
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Just to illustrate what I mentioned above, the OP has this...





and is thinking of adding something like this (NR Cherry Bomb) in order to boost off-axis visibility:


I'm all for having secondary lights to provide redunancy, but a DiNotte 140 is a tough act to follow
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