Who would have though, with all I have to contend with, ie distance, weather, hills, traffic, one gear etc etc it would be lights that are the biggest pain in the 4r5e?
First of all, I couldn't switch on my front LED light without taking off my gloves. Then I added a cheapy Decathlon one that wasn't waterproof and bit the dust after a month or so.
Then the rear one from the set (which was actually OK) flew off on a bumpy bit and got run over by a following car, and I lost an expensive rechargeable AAA.
My mate, in sympathy, gave me another couple of the front LED ones (he ended up with a load of spare ones when he bought them off ebay. They probably cost pennies from the factory); only one works, and the other one switches itself off every time I go over a bump. Or rather, it did- while I was attempting to switch it back on this morning it flew off and smashed into pieces. And I lost another precious battery.
So I'm down to one front LED and one rear.
This whole situation reminds me of when we were flooded with cheap crap from Japan in the early-to-mid '70s. I wanted a cassette recorder for Christmas one year, and it took seven attempts to get one that worked. And they weren't all the same model, my parents took each one back and got a different type and it still took seven attempts.
I digress... I'm reluctant to buy 'quality' lights as I don't believe there's any such thing (south of £100). 'quality' these days means sh*t but with a guarantee. Everything comes from the same factories. I fear we have a few years more of putting up with rubbish from China.
Angry of Hayfield.
First of all, I couldn't switch on my front LED light without taking off my gloves. Then I added a cheapy Decathlon one that wasn't waterproof and bit the dust after a month or so.
Then the rear one from the set (which was actually OK) flew off on a bumpy bit and got run over by a following car, and I lost an expensive rechargeable AAA.
My mate, in sympathy, gave me another couple of the front LED ones (he ended up with a load of spare ones when he bought them off ebay. They probably cost pennies from the factory); only one works, and the other one switches itself off every time I go over a bump. Or rather, it did- while I was attempting to switch it back on this morning it flew off and smashed into pieces. And I lost another precious battery.
So I'm down to one front LED and one rear.
This whole situation reminds me of when we were flooded with cheap crap from Japan in the early-to-mid '70s. I wanted a cassette recorder for Christmas one year, and it took seven attempts to get one that worked. And they weren't all the same model, my parents took each one back and got a different type and it still took seven attempts.
I digress... I'm reluctant to buy 'quality' lights as I don't believe there's any such thing (south of £100). 'quality' these days means sh*t but with a guarantee. Everything comes from the same factories. I fear we have a few years more of putting up with rubbish from China.
Angry of Hayfield.