Took a ride down a new trail last night and got some angry comments about brightness of my headlight, so I wondered if there's some weird etiquette (equivalent to dropping high beams when a car approaches from the other direction).
-Trail was rural, no city lights.
-Decent number of pedestrians, for which I really needed to long beam to see far enough ahead to safely move around.
-The loudest complaint was from a biker who didn't even have any lights, so I'm not exactly feeling inclined to change my habit. A few other bikers had barely visible krypton lights. One biker with a light similar to mine, turned hers off as we crossed paths, which is what got me wondering about etiquette.
-I was running my light at around 200 lumens (Cygolite Metro 360 on medium), so it's bright, but by no means the brightest light on the market.
Thoughts? I love the bright light but don't want to be an asshole cyclist unintentionally.