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Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Always knock a naught off or halve it when telling the better half......saves the hasstle
That damn commuting light thread!
- Thread starter magnatom
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
magnatom said:
Yeah, but you can fill it around the light with conkers/painballs/waterbombs, easily at hand to throw at them...
I have a friend, recently carried a dead roadkill stoat home in her basket..
love a good light thread , the subjects almost worth a forum to itself.
This year Im going minimalist in the lights department, previously I have used everything from the 10/5 watt lead acid recharge every night jobs to cateye sets, torches and headlamps.
I think you can get a cheaper version of the dinotte for £99 but that technology seems to be moving so fast luxeon lights are getting cheaper all the time so Im keeping my money for the time being.
So at the moment I have a couple of "frog" flashing led,s one on the front fork and one on the rear stay They are much brighter than the cateyes, reflect in the spokes and creat a flood of light. I have a very small 1w luxeon which is not much bigger than a single AA to project some forward light.
If Im carry my rucksack that has a cateye led on the back as well and my seat post also has a cateye led as a back up.
The whole lot weighs very little.
Part of my route takes me through woodland and for that I have a petzl headlamp which just because it shines were I look, and is better than any bike light Ive tried, works for me but to be honest I rarely use it nowadays.
This year Im going minimalist in the lights department, previously I have used everything from the 10/5 watt lead acid recharge every night jobs to cateye sets, torches and headlamps.
I think you can get a cheaper version of the dinotte for £99 but that technology seems to be moving so fast luxeon lights are getting cheaper all the time so Im keeping my money for the time being.
So at the moment I have a couple of "frog" flashing led,s one on the front fork and one on the rear stay They are much brighter than the cateyes, reflect in the spokes and creat a flood of light. I have a very small 1w luxeon which is not much bigger than a single AA to project some forward light.
If Im carry my rucksack that has a cateye led on the back as well and my seat post also has a cateye led as a back up.
The whole lot weighs very little.
Part of my route takes me through woodland and for that I have a petzl headlamp which just because it shines were I look, and is better than any bike light Ive tried, works for me but to be honest I rarely use it nowadays.
Elmer Fudd
Miserable Old Bar Steward
- Location
- Durham, and I am the eejit
Spoken in true MAN-SPEAK !!magnatom said:
I've already primed the wife that I want a new light, but I do want to limit my outlay to about the £50 mark (which realistically means I would probably go up to £70)
When the CC bill comes in divert SWMBO attention away from your (now) £89.99 light set by harping on about the price of those strappy stiletto's she has bought that are totally unsuitable footwear for this time of year !
