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From: Timothy Baldwin on 20 Dec 2009 12:59 Owain wrote: > 4 Have their season tickets ripped up and be barred from travel for a > year if they leave their rear lights on You should take the up with the manufacturers, often bike lights do not have off switches.
From: David Hansen on 20 Dec 2009 13:17 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:59:21 +0000 someone who may be Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99(a)members.leeds.ac.uk> wrote this:- >> 4 Have their season tickets ripped up and be barred from travel for a >> year if they leave their rear lights on > >You should take the up with the manufacturers, often bike lights do not have >off switches. And some designs have standlights which come on/keep the lamp on for several minutes after the bike has stopped and thus there is no output from the dynamo. -- David Hansen, Edinburgh I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukpga_20000023_en_8#pt3-pb3-l1g54
From: Neil Williams on 20 Dec 2009 15:56 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:59:21 +0000, Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99(a)members.leeds.ac.uk> wrote: >You should take the up with the manufacturers, often bike lights do not have >off switches. I have never seen a bicycle light that could not be switched off. (or are you thinking of motorcycles, which are not the subject of this thread?) Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply.
From: Neil Williams on 20 Dec 2009 15:57 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:59:21 +0000, Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99(a)members.leeds.ac.uk> wrote: >You should take the up with the manufacturers, often bike lights do not have >off switches. (When setting followups, please say you have done so. Followup change disregarded, uk.railway added back in as that is where I am following this thread) I have never seen a bicycle light that could not be switched off. (or are you thinking of motorcycles, which are not the subject of this thread?) Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply.
From: Alex Potter on 20 Dec 2009 16:09
Neil Williams wrote on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:57:46 +0000: > I have never seen a bicycle light that could not be switched off. (or > are you thinking of motorcycles, which are not the subject of this > thread?) The lights on my bike are dynamo-powered. Both front and rear have "standlights", so that they stay on for several minutes after the bike stops. There is no way of disabling that facility. -- Regards Alex |