I don't mind the flashing rear lights as long as they aren't the intermittent flash but flashing front lights are not helpful, particularly the very bright ones. I see some cyclists who rely on their flashing rear lights but they are using such poor lights that you can be right up to them before seeing the lights.
I think this is the only answer to the low blinding sun.
When I'm driving, I find cyclists who have both flashing and non-flashing lights the easiest to see. I find the flashing light makes me see them earlier but can make it a bit difficult to judge the distance to them and the steady light makes it easier to judge the distance, once I've spotted them.
But on all of those you can see the rider's arms, so if you had a proper coat on, it would still be visible from the front?
In poor light with a horse that blends into the background the movement would be barely noticeable and not enough to warn from a distance. Something bright round the horse's chest would help a lot.
To be clear, I do agree- but I do equally think that someone who has put on e.g. a tabard and an exercise sheet has made a lot more effort to be visible than most dog walkers who use the lanes around here (often in very low light conditions that people don't ride in). All the riders around here make some effort, I agree that we should always do our best to be seen. But if a driver hit a black dog walking on a lane in the dark, they'd rightly be crucified on social media- why is it different if someone hits a black horse in the light?
I don't think you will find anyone who would disagree with you. It appals me how many people I see either cycling or walking on the lanes round here without any attempt to make themselves visible. Too many people think if they can see they can be seen and it just isn't true.
Cyclists round here are dreadful. So many dressed all in black with no lights at all. I'm starting to think all bikes should be sold in luminous colours to compensate for the number of idiots that ride them.
I agree. Saw a cyclist the other day, riding on a narrow footpath against the traffic when he could have been on the wide purpose built cycle path the other side of the road. He was dark skinned, in black clothes and not so much as a reflector on his dark bike. It was not far off full dark so he was next to invisible.
As a photosensitive epileptic, why does your safety trump mine? You can opt to travel some other way. I can't opt out of having epilepsy.
It must be really tough for you living with photosensitive epilepsy
. As I’m sure that you are only too aware, it is not a very common variant. According to Epilepsy UK, around 1 in 100 people in the UK have epilepsy, and of these people, 3 in every 100 have photosensitive epilepsy.