That looks like a lot of light up above the "horizon" line (road surface). If so, I'd highly recommend some horizon-line shades or lenses/lids for those lights, so they aren't blinding everyone heading towards you.
It's courteous, and it could prevent a collision (either with something else in front of them they can't see because of the glare of the lights, or even with you because some people swerve towards things that blind them). It can also prevent pedestrians and other cyclists from being blinded and unable to see their own path (and potentially tripping or crashing, being injured or worse)
There's a lot of cars out there that i wish had such horizon-line shades, because they prevent me from being able to see even the road surface my own headlight is illuminating.
My own headlight is that off some Kia, because it does have a good horizon line in normal mode (I don't normally use it in "high beam" mode for the same reasons I mention above, but it's wired in in case I ever need it--I *have* used it to flick on momentarily for cars that are driving around with *their* HBs on, so they'll realize they're causing others to have problems seeing).
I've tried other lights, and for a few years I used some old 80's halogen headlights that also had a horizon, but the horizon wasn't sharp like the Kia light, and that bulb type didn't give a good even lighting from me to the horizon line down-road. Spot-type LED lights and flashlights and other lights (halogen spots, CFLs with lenses, etc) I tried all had the problem of not enough light where I needed it unless they were bright enough to cause problems with other people's vision.
Not that I'm suggesting the use of a car headlight...just the result it produces works well to illuminate the road without blinding anyone, so you could implement any idea that does the same thing. There've been some posts in threads about lighting that show a few ways, including mirrors above LEDs, etc.
It's courteous, and it could prevent a collision (either with something else in front of them they can't see because of the glare of the lights, or even with you because some people swerve towards things that blind them). It can also prevent pedestrians and other cyclists from being blinded and unable to see their own path (and potentially tripping or crashing, being injured or worse)
There's a lot of cars out there that i wish had such horizon-line shades, because they prevent me from being able to see even the road surface my own headlight is illuminating.
My own headlight is that off some Kia, because it does have a good horizon line in normal mode (I don't normally use it in "high beam" mode for the same reasons I mention above, but it's wired in in case I ever need it--I *have* used it to flick on momentarily for cars that are driving around with *their* HBs on, so they'll realize they're causing others to have problems seeing).
I've tried other lights, and for a few years I used some old 80's halogen headlights that also had a horizon, but the horizon wasn't sharp like the Kia light, and that bulb type didn't give a good even lighting from me to the horizon line down-road. Spot-type LED lights and flashlights and other lights (halogen spots, CFLs with lenses, etc) I tried all had the problem of not enough light where I needed it unless they were bright enough to cause problems with other people's vision.
Not that I'm suggesting the use of a car headlight...just the result it produces works well to illuminate the road without blinding anyone, so you could implement any idea that does the same thing. There've been some posts in threads about lighting that show a few ways, including mirrors above LEDs, etc.
Love those headlights. Are they just the led kind you find on ebay?
