flat3
Well-Known Member
I've a couple of darkness-related questions for the HHO hivemind please
1. I've a number of headtorches spread across home (dog walking on country lanes), car and horsebox. I find myself in need of a couple of additional ones. My current ones are cheapies (probs Amazon) but I've recently moved to a new yard and the lights for the outdoor can be unreliable so I rode in the dark just with a headtorch the other night and pony was surprisingly well behaved. I now want to make sure I'm buying the best option to enable that. I'm after the feel of being in a 'large bubble of light' rather than a powerful focused beam (if that makes any sense) and I'm still not in the market for big bucks (£30+). Which do people recommend for maximum 'light bubble size'?
2. I've an old (solid and well-built!) 3.5t horsebox that is dark grey and I do regular local trips in the dark on country lanes in a very horsy area. Particularly from the front, I think drivers don't realise I'm a horsebox and not a normal car until they're right upon us, and consequently don't slow down as much / give us as much room as they might be in the light when they can see us coming. Obviously I drive sensibly and cautiously, but if knowing we're a little lorry means drivers would give us extra courtesy then I'm all for it! As such, I'm wondering about adding white reflectors to the top corners of the luton and red reflectors to the top corners on the back wall - has anyone done similar?
1. I've a number of headtorches spread across home (dog walking on country lanes), car and horsebox. I find myself in need of a couple of additional ones. My current ones are cheapies (probs Amazon) but I've recently moved to a new yard and the lights for the outdoor can be unreliable so I rode in the dark just with a headtorch the other night and pony was surprisingly well behaved. I now want to make sure I'm buying the best option to enable that. I'm after the feel of being in a 'large bubble of light' rather than a powerful focused beam (if that makes any sense) and I'm still not in the market for big bucks (£30+). Which do people recommend for maximum 'light bubble size'?
2. I've an old (solid and well-built!) 3.5t horsebox that is dark grey and I do regular local trips in the dark on country lanes in a very horsy area. Particularly from the front, I think drivers don't realise I'm a horsebox and not a normal car until they're right upon us, and consequently don't slow down as much / give us as much room as they might be in the light when they can see us coming. Obviously I drive sensibly and cautiously, but if knowing we're a little lorry means drivers would give us extra courtesy then I'm all for it! As such, I'm wondering about adding white reflectors to the top corners of the luton and red reflectors to the top corners on the back wall - has anyone done similar?