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Bike LED lights tend to strobe when pushing the bike manually, which is very annoying. This is due to technical reasons with the dynamo and LED rather that prog
by Aardwolf 2y ago
Bike LED lights tend to strobe when pushing the bike manually, which is very annoying. This is due to technical reasons with the dynamo and LED rather that programmed behavior afaik. But do LED bike lights that attempt to fix this issue (either be off or dim rather that flicker at low speed) exist? It's not a feature typically listed on their product descriptions...
- lucianbr 2y agoThere are plenty battery-based lights that simply have multiple operating modes, some of them being strobe. This is by far the majority of the issue. I haven't seen someone using a dynamo for more than a decade. People choose the strobe, presumably because they feel more visible and therefore safer. I understand it, but it's annoying as hell.
- Aardwolf 2y agoI'm talking about a hub dynamo in a bike in Europe. This is not uncommon at all. Maybe these are not common in other locales but I don't understand why that seems to have offended some :/ I'm talking about rapidly flashing lights in narrow streets in cities from people pushing their bikes (and me having such bike too, and trying to remember to switch of the light when pushing bike manually to not annoy others)
- KennyBlanken 2y agoThey're quite common even in the US as well. That person probably has no idea hub generators exist, or that they have standlight functionality. All the bike-share bikes in the US have generator hub lights as well (except for the ebikes, of course.)
- dpkirchner 2y agoI had a driver yell at me that they only look for bicycles that have strobing lights, not bikes like mine that used a steady light. I don't know how common that specific mentality is, though.