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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:48 -0000, "Danny Colyer"
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🙂Andrew Sweetman wondered: )> So should I consider my flashing rear LED to be a warning beacon? )
🙂Does it meet the requirements laid out for a warning beacon in schedule )16 of the regulations:
🙂url:http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1989/Uksi_19891796_en_21.htm#nsch16requi
🙂rementrelatingobligatoryoptionalwarningbeacon ? ) )i.e. is it visible from all angles (front or
:rear), is its flashing rate )somewhere between 60-240 flashes/minute and is its colour blue, amber,
🙂green or yellow?

Amber OR yellow ! That's pushing it for your average road user !

What shades of blue or green are acceptable !

That range is twice as "long" as the allowed range for "flashers"
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:54:06 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
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🙂On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:42:28 +0000 (UTC), "Andrew Sweetman"
🙂<[email hidden]> wrote: ) )>So should I consider my flashing rear LED to be
:a warning beacon? ) )Well now. According to my reading of the Regs, if you put an *orange*
🙂flashing beacon on the back of your bike, that should be legit. You )could argue that a cyclist
:riding at night is a slow-moving vehicle )(we can't generally get up to full speed in the dark,
:after all). ) )If you have a steady red light on the back of your bike meeting BS )<mumble>, you
:can then strictly speaking hang whatever you like on )your person or the luggage of the bike. So I
:hang my RealLite on the )bike bag. But I would be inclined to restrict rear-facing lights to )red
:or orange.

Not necessary - police had red forward facing flashing LEDS round their ankles on horseback !

🙂 )I might be wrong on this, but I have had confirmation from sources )somewhat more expert if no
:more authoritative than me. ) )Guy )=== )May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle
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"pmailkeey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

🙂> For clause 13 (flashing lights), paragraph 2 says: )> **************** )> (2) Paragraph (1)
:does not apply in respect of- )> (c) a warning beacon or special warning lamp;

Quoted message said:

🙂So should I consider my flashing rear LED to be a warning beacon?

Quoted message said:

Consider it whatever you want - but remember what it isn't - and that's a steady rear light ! It's
why they're allowed in ADDITION to .

Or rather they will be if the Govt. ever gets around to publishing the amendments to the RVLR which
would allow flashing lights in addition to the mandated BS steady lamp.

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"pmailkeey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

🙂If you have a steady red light on the back of your bike meeting BS )<mumble>, you can then
:strictly speaking hang whatever you like on )your person or the luggage of the bike. So I hang my
:RealLite on the )bike bag. But I would be inclined to restrict rear-facing lights to )red or
:orange.

Quoted message said:

Not necessary - police had red forward facing flashing LEDS round their ankles on horseback !

Horses are not road vehicles according to the schedules in the Road Vehiclkes Lighting Regulations.

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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:34:06 -0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
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🙂"pmailkeey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
🙂"]news:[email hidden]... ) )> 🙂> For clause 13 (flashing lights), paragraph
:2 says: )> 🙂> **************** )> 🙂> (2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in respect of- )> 🙂> (c) a
:warning beacon or special warning lamp; ) )> 🙂So should I consider my flashing rear LED to be a
:warning beacon? ) )> Consider it whatever you want - but remember what it isn't - and )> that's a
:steady rear light ! It's why they're allowed in ADDITION to . ) )Or rather they will be if the
:Govt. ever gets around to publishing the )amendments to the RVLR which would allow flashing lights
:in addition to the )mandated BS steady lamp.

And then how are you going to distinguish a flashing light and a turn indication which
also flashes ?
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:32:34 -0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

🙂"pmailkeey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
🙂"]news:[email hidden]... ) )> 🙂If you have a steady red light on the back of
:your bike meeting BS )> 🙂<mumble>, you can then strictly speaking hang whatever you like on )>
:🙂your person or the luggage of the bike. So I hang my RealLite on the )> 🙂bike bag. But I would
:be inclined to restrict rear-facing lights to )> 🙂red or orange. ) )> Not necessary - police had
:red forward facing flashing LEDS round )> their ankles on horseback ! ) )Horses are not road
:vehicles according to the schedules in the Road )Vehiclkes Lighting Regulations.

Neither are policemen or cyclists.
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"pmailkeey" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

🙂Horses are not road vehicles according to the schedules in the Road )Vehiclkes Lighting
:Regulations.

Quoted message said:

Neither are policemen or cyclists.

But bicycles are.

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