12-03-2020, 09:10 PM
I gave this a lot of thought last summer when I went to Guildtown for the Scottish Rally. I had a 1000 mile round trip to consider and being on the east of the country to start with, the A1(M) was hard to avoid. However, some close examination of 'zoomed in' Google maps revealed many miles of the 'old' A1 that ran alongside the M version of the road. These stretches turned out to be a delight - wide roads with good surfaces and almost no traffic save the odd local car or tractor.
There were areas however, where I couldn't avoid the M version and for those sections, I made a small bracket for the back of the cabriolet (that mounted above the original pork pie rear lamp) and mounted a rear bicycle lamp that gave an 'asymmetric' flash pattern with the occasional (every 5 seconds?) really high intensity flash. This was so bright, I deemed it inappropriate to use at night for fear of blinding a following driver.
This approach appeared to work really well and caught the attention of drivers overhauling me and I would see them pull out to overtake a 1/4 mile before they reached me. This was comforting and felt much better that seeing the rad of an HGV looming up in the rear view mirror. This is the lamp if it is of interest..
https://www.evanscycles.com/lezyne-zecto...n-EV313609
Though it has to be said, I will still avoid such roads if and where I can, I realise *I* am the problem, not the other road users sticking to that road's usual speeds...
There were areas however, where I couldn't avoid the M version and for those sections, I made a small bracket for the back of the cabriolet (that mounted above the original pork pie rear lamp) and mounted a rear bicycle lamp that gave an 'asymmetric' flash pattern with the occasional (every 5 seconds?) really high intensity flash. This was so bright, I deemed it inappropriate to use at night for fear of blinding a following driver.
This approach appeared to work really well and caught the attention of drivers overhauling me and I would see them pull out to overtake a 1/4 mile before they reached me. This was comforting and felt much better that seeing the rad of an HGV looming up in the rear view mirror. This is the lamp if it is of interest..
https://www.evanscycles.com/lezyne-zecto...n-EV313609
Though it has to be said, I will still avoid such roads if and where I can, I realise *I* am the problem, not the other road users sticking to that road's usual speeds...