Bike light laws

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Permalink Reply by Angus Kingston on February 5, 2010 at 11:53am

One reference is from the Australian Road Rules / South Australia/ under the Road Traffic Act...

259—Riding at night
The rider of a bicycle must not ride at night, or in hazardous weather conditions
causing reduced visibility, unless the bicycle, or the rider, displays:
(a) a flashing or steady white light that is clearly visible for at least 200 metres
from the front of the bicycle; and
(b) a flashing or steady red light that is clearly visible for at least 200 metres from
the rear of the bicycle; and
(c) a red reflector that is clearly visible for at least 50 metres from the rear of the
bicycle when light is projected onto it by a vehicle's headlight on low-beam.
Offence provision.
Note—
Low-beam and night are defined in the dictionary.

I found this via Wheels of Justice thanks to Aushiker.

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Permalink Reply by Wombat on February 5, 2010 at 1:20pm

Not that this is always possible in bad weather... sometimes headlights are not visible from those distances! haha

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Permalink Reply by Ben Teoh on February 5, 2010 at 2:33pm

Cheers, looks like I should be ok. I'm planning on having two lights up front (one steady on the handlebars, one blinking on the front forks), and I'll have a bunch of rear lights (small blinking one on my pannier, one blinking on the seat stem, one solid in the wheel hub that will look like it's blinking and should also give me better side visibility, and then maybe another blinking one on my rack, because I can). Overkill maybe? Just good fun, I say.

haha.

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