Indicator Bike Signal Lights

I love it, but in the UK indicator lights are orange. Also they flash a little too fast for my liking. Indicators on cars flash slower. A slower flash and an orange colour would help distinguish it from regular flashing bike lights and make it look more like a regular car/motorbike indicator.

If they made those changes I’d definitively stick these on my commuter bike.

There have been plenty of products that try to do stuff like this. And they all fall at the first hurdle in my opinion.

Other road users don’t expect cyclists to have indicators and as such, don’t look for them.

Not a new idea at all. I had something very similar in the 80s, and Sunlite makes one currently.

My big issue is that, unlike car turn signals, these are on All the time, in ways that is a good safety feature, giving the motorist an idea of how wide the bike is, BUT that that has to eat batteries for a snack.

Much as I like lit signals, I think it’s easier to learn hand signals. Gloves with reflective material are becoming more common to show up in headlights.

Whatever is wrong with hand signals?

Sometimes they’re not ideal. Trying to signal while trying to stop in the rain when on a curved downhill, for instance, when I need both hands on the bars is always an issue. I can see where another solution might be attractive.

That’s a great idea for safety !
But don’t wear helmets !!! we need more organ donors !!!

Nice idea, not new … we need something more like motorbike indicators really, that flash when you want to turn, but even they wont be any guarantee you’ll be seen. Or something to add to the hand/arm/shoulder while signalling. Anything constantly flashing for me is a complete waste – can’t say I even like the modern lamps that flash constantly.

In the days before helmets, I was cycling on a dual carriageway with a bright day-glo jacket, on a typical winter’s morning, overcast but not especially dark, nor foggy/misty … ie good visibility. A chap in a van came up to the junction onto the road I was on and despite the stop sign slowed right down but didn’t actually totally come to a stop. I knew he hadn’t seen me … he did look but he didn’t see, as he stated himself later. Pity he didn’t have the passenger window open cos I would have gone straight in instead of straight into and over. I was lucky that the impact with the van knocked me out so I was effectively a rag doll, and luckily only ruptured my elbow joint. Nice black and and bruises all over., and gash on temple. Very very lucky.