Originally Posted by mnaines

Dude, all you're doing is starting fights with the "troll" label. Drop it. Seriously. None of this would have ever happened if you guys had not been so adamant about hawking your uber-high-tech LED flashlights. This is not a marketplace forum to sell stuff. You guys were obviously trying to sell, hawk, push, or advertise those cree lights. I said it before and I'll say it again, there is no "best light" because it depends on where you ride, what the terrain is like in your area, what the local ambient light level is like, what time of day you ride, and how long you ride.

HID headlights for bicycles like the Cree flashlights and the HID headlights for cars aren't even street legal in America anyway. Go ask the US Department of Transportation if HID headlights are street legal and you'll get told that they're too bright for street use because they blind oncoming traffic. Its just like factory-installed tinted windows - most of the factory-installed window tint on cars is 15% visible light transmission but most places won't let you go darker than 35% VLT (the lower the number, the darker the tint), and cops here WILL make you take off the factory tint because it is too dark. They will do the same for any factory-installed part that violates the law, like HID headlights. If your car comes out of the factory with a high-flow exhaust that's really loud (like on Harley motorcycles or Mustang GT's), the cops here will make you put a muffler on the vehicle to quiet it down.

Hell, here in Kansas City, its basically a police-state type situation...You can't even take a dump in this city without the cops taking an interest. Talking on cell phones is illegal here, not wearing your seatbelt is illegal here, not wearing a helmet is illegal, not having proper safety equipment is illegal...There is no such thing as "free will" here. You basically do what the city government and the police tell you. You use the equipment they say you can use. You drive how and where they say you can drive. If you don't do what they say, its a fine, with the fines starting at $350 for not wearing your helmet and going all the way up to $800 for more heinous stuff like failure to obey marked traffic signals.

Inattentive driving here is a $500 fine and is defined as "Any operation of a motor vehicle without due regard to road, weather, or traffic conditions". Bicyclists here have to follow the exact same traffic laws as automobile drivers.

Originally Posted by Fizzaly

Thats actually up to each state, HID lights are perfectly legal in ID the only way feds can get involved in something like that is if its commercial.