Po's Headlight

[Pedantic]

People keep remarking on Po's Headlight on any photo's I have posted, surely me and my two friends aren't the only ones who ride in the dark, anyway for anyone wanting to know what and how here it is-

Torpedo type click adjustable headlight from hardware store, you need this type with a flat base to tape onto the bridle, take off the straps which you would use to fit on your head and throw away, tape light onto middle of bridle with insulation tape, I take it off in the summer and just refit and leave on through winter, you can adjust the angle to suit your horses head angle once mounted, wherever horsey looks it lights up

, works a treat, when we first did it last winter Po thought it really novel that where he lookes it lights up, he takes it for granted now

 

[TheresaW]

I hack in the dark!

Excellent idea that I might well borrow.

 

[YorkshireLass]

I use cateye cycle LED lights. You can have them flashing or constant. They are very tiny and come with all the fittings.

They can be clipped on to the breastcollar of a driven horse, or the martingale or bridle.

Lights are more for the benifit of other road users than the horse. Horses can see very well in the dark, their vision is totaly different from ours. I have ridden over country and jumped in pitch blackness. The horse never put a foot wrong.

Don't worry about using flashing LED's, horses can't see them flashing. You can also get flashing vests and rugs these days.

 

[Pedantic]

Yep, I wear the flashing red neon tabbard, the light is for me to see where we are going as much as him, he has other flourescent gear on as well for other people to see us.

 

[ajb]

great idea but Im assuming your talking about hacking around fields etc in the dark..surely not on the roads!!!!

 

[Pedantic]

Oh yea, countrypark, bridleway, cut through lit industial estate from river, fields, the park and river can be pitch black hence the need for a light to see, might cross a lit dual carriagway or ride along the side of the road on the cycle track or next to the culvert on the grass, might cross at the lights or roundabout and possible along lit side street, can only canter if a full moon on the fields in case some pratt has dumped a cycle frame or whatever.