swhs
Newly Enlightened
For those of us wanting legal lamps (symmetric beams are not legal in most countries in Europe), I've been testing and updating my website with tests of the Trelock LS 885, Cyo-RT. You may well be surprised by my review of the Cyo RT, I certainly was very surprised by the performance of this lamp. Also some interesting stuff about the difference of mounting a lamp at 1.05m and 0.75 m, and a test from my perspective of the Lupine Betty 2011 with comparison with the Philips LED bike light. Finally a bit about the reflector changes in the Edelux/Cyo.
Starting page is here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swhs/fiets/tes.../index_en.html
Note that my perspective is from someone living in the Netherlands, that means we don't have maniacs here in cars that try to kill cyclists (or at least, almost none). This is why for most regular bicycles I don't like daytime lamps, they are not needed. Only when cars are riding with lights on all the time may they become necessary, i.e. this could become an arms race, and nothing good comes from an arms race.
I heard an interesting story from someone who came round a while back to try out some Brooks saddles: he lived in the UK for a while and told of a woman stopping in a SUV, telling him off for letting his children cycle to school!
You know what I said? I've put my response also on my main lighting page too because it may give people food for thought: Letting children cycle to school (as is normal practice in the Netherlands) will not only give those children a different attitude towards cyclists later in life, but also all car drivers (except sociopaths) will immediately get a different attitude towards what they feel can do ('think of the children' !).
Starting page is here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swhs/fiets/tes.../index_en.html
Note that my perspective is from someone living in the Netherlands, that means we don't have maniacs here in cars that try to kill cyclists (or at least, almost none). This is why for most regular bicycles I don't like daytime lamps, they are not needed. Only when cars are riding with lights on all the time may they become necessary, i.e. this could become an arms race, and nothing good comes from an arms race.
I heard an interesting story from someone who came round a while back to try out some Brooks saddles: he lived in the UK for a while and told of a woman stopping in a SUV, telling him off for letting his children cycle to school!
You know what I said? I've put my response also on my main lighting page too because it may give people food for thought: Letting children cycle to school (as is normal practice in the Netherlands) will not only give those children a different attitude towards cyclists later in life, but also all car drivers (except sociopaths) will immediately get a different attitude towards what they feel can do ('think of the children' !).
