Paranoid Me......?

[fossyant]

I had business in Decathlon yesterday (picking up a freewheel for sons bike).

Wheeled in, and asked if it was OK to bring the bike in. The cycle workshop manager said leave it here.

So of I toddled, returning to the bike after I'd picked up the spares to get my wallet. Two of the chaps said 'nice commuting bike' yadda yadda and we got into a bit of a conversation.

Off I went to the tills, and I could hear them say to one of the other mechanics 'have a look at this', 'nice' said the other one. 'How many lights has he got ?' - poking about, 'four on the front and four on the back'.

The mechanic went . You should have seen his face !

I shouted over 'I'm paranoid, was knocked off a few years back and smashed my shoulder up' - 'ah.....'

Anyway, back there again tonight to return a faulty freewheel (bought a replacement first so sons bike not off the road).

 

[BentMikey]

You'd do a lot better just getting a proper light front and rear, and a more conservative two backup lights. :P

 

[fossyant]

You'd do a lot better just getting a proper light front and rear, and a more conservative two backup lights. :P

Meoww. Called built in redundancy. Got proper fronts and rears with backups front and rear. Anyway, I'm a light collectaholic !

 

[BSRU]

Cannot have too many lights

 

[BentMikey]

Same here.

 

[potsy]

One of my colleagues had a cheap Tesco flasher as his main front light, you've seen them, green rather than white light, totally useless.
Anyway, he's now just added a back-up light to it, a RED one

 

[fossyant]

One of my colleagues had a cheap Tesco flasher as his main front light, you've seen them, green rather than white light, totally useless.
Anyway, he's now just added a back-up light to it, a RED one

 

[BSRU]

If he gets a blue one and puts the three together he will end up with a white light .