By “headlamp” do you mean handlebar light or you’re wearing it on your head?
With a lamp on my head no cut-off would keep me from flashing drivers when I shoulder check. Hence why I usually turn it off - I’m sure you mean headlamp on your bar; the terminology is just confusing
I haven’t come across a rear light that is too bright yet. 250-lumens still gets washed out entirely by the headlights on many of the high end cars around here.
I guess it also comes down to experiences. I’m all about mutual respect when I’m a road user. I only take a lane when I need to for safety and I will even time road crossings not to interrupt the flow of automobile traffic and I always appreciate when a driver gives me the right of way - and show it.
BUT, I’ve been hit and doored more than once and if a driver puts me, and especially my little commuter buddy, at risk because they’re ignorant or arrogant I think nothing of lighting them up with both beams or worse. It’s not that they’re bad people or I wish them harm, but sometimes zombies driving about need a wake up.
Nov. 9, 2018, 9:50 a.m. - Andrew Major
By “headlamp” do you mean handlebar light or you’re wearing it on your head? With a lamp on my head no cut-off would keep me from flashing drivers when I shoulder check. Hence why I usually turn it off - I’m sure you mean headlamp on your bar; the terminology is just confusing I haven’t come across a rear light that is too bright yet. 250-lumens still gets washed out entirely by the headlights on many of the high end cars around here. I guess it also comes down to experiences. I’m all about mutual respect when I’m a road user. I only take a lane when I need to for safety and I will even time road crossings not to interrupt the flow of automobile traffic and I always appreciate when a driver gives me the right of way - and show it. BUT, I’ve been hit and doored more than once and if a driver puts me, and especially my little commuter buddy, at risk because they’re ignorant or arrogant I think nothing of lighting them up with both beams or worse. It’s not that they’re bad people or I wish them harm, but sometimes zombies driving about need a wake up.