Yes, I also offered help in response to your post. I did so in case someone in the future i searching and comes across the thread. Mike though doesn't really want help, he is an incessant troll, and won't accept any offered advice despite the merit. Early on many actually tried helping Mike with things, but it became very clear that he is simply trolling, and people treat his posts as such. As long as his posts are allowed on the forum, people will disregard their validity and reply with made up "solutions" since the OP floods the forum with made up issues, and issues the average third grader would solve before breakfast.

I guess you missed the post in this thread where I took the advice of the poster and purchased the product he recommended.

lol

BF is hilarious.

You certainly didn’t get your first post didn’t describe your issue very well.

Was concerned about the bag reducing the effectiveness of the light and looking for alternatives.

Confusing, I know. But there was a pic.

lol.

You pointed out that you didn’t care about seeing things later in the thread. If you had a clue, you would have mentioned it at the beginning. LOL.

Yep, because I have you on ignore. I was speaking to your general behavior. You also still have not figured out how to quote someone, so your replies are missed as well. You spend an awful lot of time criticizing BF, but it is your behavior that makes it difficult for you. If you would have actually took the time to learn forum etiquette, like using the quote function, not posting multitudes of trolling posts, and not criticizing those who actually tried to help you when you first started using the forum.

People stopped taking you seriously because you showed yourself to be either not serious, or simply had some predetermined outcome to your questions and would disregard any real advice you received. As a result, people stopped trying to help you, and to be honest, the vast majority of your posts are simply troll posts, like how to carry a bike upstairs, I may need a Walnut strategy, Please stop doing the handlebar wave, Why Blue, Are You the Bike Police, Is hot sauce and bikes a thing, Am I just an angry loner, etc. Oh, and let's not forget Drippy Nose, and Drippy Nose 2.0. One thread, How is this fun, was a thread about bike touring, in which you basically belittled bicycle touring as much as you possibly could, on a forum about bikes. You go out of your way to belittle people you talk about in your posts, "Lances" as one example, gravel bikers, people who play sports you think are beneath you or too dangerous, and basically anyone who does anything you don't agree with, etc.

That is what you seem to do though, make fun of bicyclists, that is, those bicyclists who enjoy bikes in a way you do not agree with, and you know best, after all, since joining in March of 2024, just about a year an a half ago, you have created 152 new threads, and posted 1,805 times. You must know something, either that or you need help with bicycling, or, you're trolling.

So Mike, though many have helped you in the past, and you seem to have new people who haven't encountered your abhorrent behavior who now are trying to champion your cause, perhaps it is time to actually start being a positive part of this forum instead of being a jerk.

Have a good day Mike, and try using the phrase Canadians are known for, "I'm sorry."

This should be posted in every thread the OP starts.

Yawn

just answer the post with relevant information or move on. No one wants to read essays.

Ah, how delightfully modern your entreaty for concision sounds — the battle cry of the chronically attention-deprived, echoing across the digital agora! Yet, while I acknowledge your impatience with anything exceeding the length of a tweet, I must, in good conscience and with due reverence to the grand tradition of discourse, defend the noble art of elaboration.

For to answer a post with “just the relevant information” is, of course, efficient — but efficiency, I fear, is the death of subtlety. The world, dear interlocutor, is not a binary code of “relevant” and “irrelevant.” It is a tapestry of context, implication, and nuance — and to excise these elements in the pursuit of brevity is to strip thought itself of its dignity.

If my words unfurl like ivy upon the trellis of your patience, consider it not verbosity, but a testament to intellectual courtesy: a willingness to explore, explain, and expand rather than to lob curt statements into the void. After all, one might as well demand that symphonies be reduced to jingles or novels to slogans.

Nevertheless, your plea has been received with all the gravity it deserves, and I shall henceforth attempt to balance my natural proclivity for eloquence with your evident predilection for expediency — though I confess, doing so will pain me almost as much as it will relieve you.

Just go to page 1 where the poster replied with a suggestion of using the garmin mount and a stackable light. I went with that. The rest is the usual BF fluff with a few other useful suggestions.

Double yawn

That reply simply shows who you are, and it perfectly aligns with what I wrote.

My thought, too.

But maybe the OP doesn't mind too much, about the light shaking up and down.

The bag is very secure as it mounts to both the top and bottom of the loop on an RS Top Shelf bar. I need the light only for the flashing mode, as the city provides ample ambient light. The side mount light worked, but based on my testing in a darkened room, it did somewhat reduce its efficiency, especially with a jacket stuffed in the bag.

The light I ordered is from Amazon so easy to return if it does not provide an acceptable solution.

Not that you follow good advice but front white lights should NEVER EVER FLASH. The only reason to flash a light is in an absolute emergency situation which you will rarely if ever be in. If you want to ride a full suspension bike on the road or leaf blow for bike lane debris fine whatever do that but please do not flash lights. A flashing white light is quite dangerous to the eyes. I literally have to close an eye and look away when one of these self-entitled arses decides to flash a light. I also know there are folks who could have seizures or the are drawn to the light and end up making things worse. If you cannot be safe with a good quality light with a good beam pattern on solid than you shouldn't be anywhere with humans. All other road users except emergency vehicles use solid front lights for a reason.

Front flash is the standard setting for most cyclists in the city core, day and night. This is a dense, busy and lit up city, you need to stand out

Not many day but when they do, it’s flash

Rear primarily flash as well, day or night.

No you don't do that. Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not the way you stand out. Get a good light with a good beam pattern and keep it solid or just avoid riding. It is not hard. Having spent a lot of time riding in dense busy lit up places I can say I have never once needed to flash a light to be seen.

If everyone else jumps off a cliff because they saw someone else doing it, would you join in?

Flashing at the rear isn't so bad as it is a red light which is less damaging to the eyes. However a solid light ensures best visibility at all times.

There a father around here who I see on the main bike path walking beside his little girl who is learning to ride.
She has two very intense white flashing lights mounted to the front of her tiny bike.
I can sort of understand the father's idea, but I can't see a thing as I pass by. It's painful.

Pics or it didn't happen.

You don't want to die on this hill VB. I don't flash my front lights because I need them to see, not to be seen. However, I don't know of the front light made that doesn't have a flash mode! Above my pay grade why, but you can't tell (in all caps) people who have spent good money buying name brand lights that they 'can't' do a particular thing with them for which they were designed to do. Encountering (head on) a 1200L headlight is going to hurt whether it flashes or not. I don't ride MUP's so I don't ever encounter bright bike lights coming at me at close quarters but, as a commuter cyclist, I encounter plenty of HID automotive lights, many in the 6,000L range, and I survive. And, given the realities of modern life, I encounter more high power car headlights per hour than any cyclist confronts flashing front lights in a month. Hold your line and look away is what they teach drivers.

The bag might be secure, but the top of that bag is not a secure platform for a light. And you don't even have the light yet ... how typical.

Why the heck would she need two flashing lights if he's walking beside her ???

I have a B&M Luxos U on two of my bikes and a B&M IQ-XS on two other bikes. Those four lights do not have a flash option. At this time I do not have any other front white lights on any of my bikes. But over the years I had some AA or C cell powered lights that did not flash either.

The B&M IQ-XS on my road bike.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...a3380723dc.jpg

The B&M Luxos U on a different bike. I previous showed this photo in post number 44 in this thread.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...158ebdd51b.jpg

The IQ-XS on my rando bike.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...ccd8e2ce83.jpg

The B&M Luxos U on my heavy duty touring bike, below.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...03865f1862.jpg

This thread is getting way tooooo off the wall. Out of here.

How is that front fender attached?

Take a look at some SKS raceblades for one way to do it.

I will die on that hill guns blazing! Literally it is dangerous, I had some bozo go past me on a sidewalk the opposite direction (I was in the bike lane going the correct way) and he was flashing a light and my right eye doesn't close the same way as my left eye so my vision was not good for a few blocks. NOT SAFE NOT OK. Sure they put in a flash mode that doesn't mean you need to use it or doesn't make it right. People sell dangerous products all the time, it doesn't make it OK it just is something that people do because they can. Companies put features into products they can sell and so long as nobody stops them they will keep doing. They can make money and that is always going to be their end goal.

When it comes to safety I prefer not dying but if I have to die on the hill to promote safety I will do it. I am tired of people riding at my in an unsafe manner because they are selfish. I am not going to give it any B.S. it is pure selfishness. There is never a reason to flash a light unless you are an emergency vehicle traveling at high speeds. Safety should be for everyone not just you (general) because you (general) are special. There is reason why no other road going vehicles use flashing lights and why in most places it is banned for motorcycles. It is simply just not safe. I say it each and every time because it is 100% true I close one eye and look away from the road or path which is DANGEROUS if someone is flashing a light at me. I have known some folks who actually can have seizures and there is no way you can say well I should give some a seizure to make myself feel safe and there is no way in hell you could say "oh that just won't happen" you don't know who you will encounter who could be prone to it or maybe someone sees your flashing light and drive into you.

There is literally nothing you will do to convince me that flashing white light is safe. If I have to do something unsafe because of flashing white lights there is ZERO safety. If you really need a flashing white light point it directly at your own eyes and there you go you can have all the flashing you want and you get to enjoy it and fewer people have to be bothered by it. Again the you is general here.

I mean, yeah, if you work hard enough, you can find exceptions to every rule. B&M are the default in a market (Germany) where flashing lights are verboten. And why? Because German lighting infrastructure is exemplary and also the laws concerning vulnerable road users are quite robust. In America, not so much. Drivers are so apt to say "I didn't see him/her!" regardless of how much lighting firepower a cyclist brings to the party that all manner of flash patterns are programmed into American market headlights to enhance visibility. I can't speak to what goes on the trails. I know though that when I have driven at night in rural areas I am scrupulous about dipping my lights when necessary. Most drivers are likewise conscientious but as we know, not everyone. Why would MUP's be different?

So why are you here Mike? For someone to be so critical of a space, it doesn’t make sense to visit that place as frequently as you do. Maybe take some time to sit back and feflect on why you need to come here at all, because it’s starting to look like … trolling.

Starting?

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