yes..the new bike lights are sometimes really bright! i drive home on a winding parkway to avoid the stop lights and general madness of the a local highway. i have been dazzled by these new LED's and at times thought a car was coming when it was two bikes side by side. Minneapolis is a bike city so we get it all from no light to full blazing glory.if i rode at night i would be a blaze of glory myself! what works best and i can see are lights that define the outline and not just one bright blinker.
They are seen, but ignored among all the commercials, bling, street lights and other light sources...
I just happened to run across this Wired article about a bike with a really interesting reflective paint. It looks like a normal, metallic paint by day, but at night, the entire frame and even the rims are lit up quite dramatically by any oncoming light source.
Cool -- I want my bike to stand out like that!
But -- look at the colors and light conditions in those photos. Urban environment, lots of street lights and whatnot. Imagine that dude wearing a hi-vis yellow jacket... Then we would REALLY be talking visible...
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