Red rear-facing helmet lamp I have considered - maybe this (which will give you a bogus message about cookies unless you go to their front page first). I have shorts, but wear longs at this time of year. Some more on splashing light around - there are a couple of places where it's nice to be able to see the low overhanging trees, or that there are no rabbits on the verge about to leap onto the path, but mostly it is wasted. A bit of side visibility at some junctions helps, and the EL-300 has side facing bits for just that reason - ideally perhaps a couple of small white LEDs like those on the smaller EL-200 but with no focussing into a beam at all would do that job, mounted on the side of a light. And having some light spilling to the other side of the road does encourage oncoming motorists to dip their headlights (while at 110W being much less antisocial itself than 110W of main beam car headlights - something like the Cateye Stadium I think would not be suitable for on-road use (not that I've ever seen one in real life)). But both the Lumotec and SolidLight spread enough peripheral light around for me. The EL-300 does feel a bit claustrophobic though - there's enough spread light for people to see it, but not for the user to see anything except a patch of the edge of the road, at least at times. (If there is either a visible moon, or streetlight glow reflected from cloud, it's not so bad.) But the EL-300 does provide a useful addition to the Lumotec (and provides a standlight for when you aren't moving, though I could have bought a Lumotec Plus instead), and even a bit of a useful addition to the SolidLight if you angle them so one spot is a bit beyond the other (as well as providing a BS6102 approved light).
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Date: 2004-11-26 08:58 am (UTC)Some more on splashing light around - there are a couple of places where it's nice to be able to see the low overhanging trees, or that there are no rabbits on the verge about to leap onto the path, but mostly it is wasted. A bit of side visibility at some junctions helps, and the EL-300 has side facing bits for just that reason - ideally perhaps a couple of small white LEDs like those on the smaller EL-200 but with no focussing into a beam at all would do that job, mounted on the side of a light.
And having some light spilling to the other side of the road does encourage oncoming motorists to dip their headlights (while at 110W being much less antisocial itself than 110W of main beam car headlights - something like the Cateye Stadium I think would not be suitable for on-road use (not that I've ever seen one in real life)).
But both the Lumotec and SolidLight spread enough peripheral light around for me. The EL-300 does feel a bit claustrophobic though - there's enough spread light for people to see it, but not for the user to see anything except a patch of the edge of the road, at least at times. (If there is either a visible moon, or streetlight glow reflected from cloud, it's not so bad.)
But the EL-300 does provide a useful addition to the Lumotec (and provides a standlight for when you aren't moving, though I could have bought a Lumotec Plus instead), and even a bit of a useful addition to the SolidLight if you angle them so one spot is a bit beyond the other (as well as providing a BS6102 approved light).