Really pleased with the Lunar R2.
If you want to give your mates scarred retinas how about a Lupine and a red quality street wrapper.
I happened to have a spare DX front light kicking about how would I go about converting this to a rear light?I expect it would be possible to just swap the LED out for a red one.
No harm in fiddling with lens colours, but after a while, they will fade.
Not advocating this a solution but...
I was out the other day, getting a bit dark and misty so I went to turn on my rear light and it wouldn't for whatever reason. I put my back-up front light on the back (Topeak WhiteLite) and rode home. I had to comute in the dark the following dark and thinking that a white lught was better than no light I left it on, for a few days until i got a new red one.
I noticed that cars gave me a lot more space when I had a white light at the back. I think it is plenty bright enough to be seen but confuses drivers enough to make them give me a wide brth.
I will accept that they are deeply unfashionable but one of these
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Was given to me by my dad when I moaned about traffic skimming past me uncomfortably close. "yea right, I am putting that dork fest on my bike!" Thought I. Tried it and blow me if it didn't actually seem to make a difference!
YMMV and all that but as an extra bit if you can bring yourself to try it, give it a go.
It's late and I am lazy so I think I might copy/paste this to that crappy commute thread as well...
Any Smart superflash/lunar. 1 or 0.5 watt are ace. About £15.
After my back light ran out of battery when I was 30 miles from home, I read this thread and minced around on various websites to see what was on offer. Yesterday I received an exposure flare and battery charger (with 2 batteries) from wiggle.
I have to say, it's really damn bright - don't know why I didn't invest in one of these before, very impressed. It cost all in £48 with the charger, when wiggle had their 10% off offer.
It replaces a Blackburn Mars 4.0 - not a bad light in itself either.
I think I went a little OTT, after a near miss the other week on the road with a Exposure Flare I wound up with a Exposure Red Eye on the helmet and a Hope District, with the Flare as backup.
