Originally Posted by
livedarklions
.... I could see them a half mile away in broad daylight.
Then the lights are doing their job. I'd never used a flashing light in broad daylight - until I was almost run over in broad daylight, crossing on the green, in the crosswalk, with my five year old behind me on the trail a bike.
Since then, I run a flasher, day and night, from when I get on the bike until I get home. I've seen plenty of flashing lights coming towards me, never had trouble staying on the trail, day or night. If you ride exclusively on trail that NEVER intersect with motorized traffic, you might have a complaint, but that is the situation nowhere that I ride. Flashing lights catch drivers attention. Riders in broad daylight might as well be invisible. And that goes for approaching riders on a MUP as well. I appreciate seeing approaching riders from farther away.