Safety first... essential read

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The problem with some of the flashing cycle lights is that they have a distinct "Off" period. This means that the eye can "lose" them in a saccade and then take a second to pick them back up again, by which time the cycle could have moved into a hazardous position.

When I bought my flashing lights I made sure they had a very rapid strobe to avoid this from happening.

Yes I've actually sat in traffic with lane bollards in place and noted how one cyclist's light was coincidently timed to flash at each bollard thus making itself invisible to me.
The answer though is not to go with these silly, strictly speaking illegal (should be no more than 3 flashes per second) and quite frankly dangerous strobing set ups. The answer is to have fitted to the front and back the standard solid state light with legal non offensive flashing light low down or even just below the solids.


Also further to this  where the fronts are concerned perhaps some of these flashers could go back to good old logic of defensive cycling and slowing down when crossing junctions or roundabouts instead of head and go, it's everyone else's responsibility to see me