My first cycle home from work last night when I actually really needed my lights, and the blinking thing broke didn't it?!
I pushed the on button and the little red light on top that warns of low battery came on, usually gives me a couple of rides before it actually turns off, but nope, off it went. Fair enough, I'll buy new batteries before I set off -quite convenient being in a shop that sells them! I tried to get the light off which proved tricky, strange because last year it took to falling off on the cobbles quite a lot, anyway I pulled too hard and snapped the end right off.
Oops. New batteries in , still no light. New batteries put in by colleague the right way up - still no light.
I didn't really want to buy cheap lights and I didn't have enough money to buy decent ones and I definitely didn't want to walk home pushing the bike, luckily a quick ratch behind the bike hut desk turned up a fairly decent -working - light.
I still felt a bit too "dark" though, think I may need to treat myself to more lights come payday.
I pushed the on button and the little red light on top that warns of low battery came on, usually gives me a couple of rides before it actually turns off, but nope, off it went. Fair enough, I'll buy new batteries before I set off -quite convenient being in a shop that sells them! I tried to get the light off which proved tricky, strange because last year it took to falling off on the cobbles quite a lot, anyway I pulled too hard and snapped the end right off.
Oops. New batteries in , still no light. New batteries put in by colleague the right way up - still no light.
I didn't really want to buy cheap lights and I didn't have enough money to buy decent ones and I definitely didn't want to walk home pushing the bike, luckily a quick ratch behind the bike hut desk turned up a fairly decent -working - light.
I still felt a bit too "dark" though, think I may need to treat myself to more lights come payday.