Lights

ahhhhhh gotcha, ignore me .. in fact vision 1 mounts have a pretty bad rep ..

I dunno, I quite like their mount. Mine hasn't broken or anything yet though so I guess there's time.

Crap what I said about cateye, just checked their website, looks like they also have a saddle mount now.

http://www.cateye.com/uk/products/detail/HL-EL460RC-REAR/

BOOM! That Diablo deal at Evans appeared again!

Got Diablo for £115.18 including 4% Quidco cashbak!

Act quick! Only 1 left in stock if anyone wants it.

Cheaper than Joystick.

you did notice it comes with helmet mount only?

Ok with that, will buy bar mount if needed later.

Joysticks are being sold without ANY mount for that money atm, cant complain

My trusty Cateye EL-130 appears to have given up the ghost, after riding it through some heavy rain the other week.

I have a pair of 10W halogens for off-roading that I bought years ago and never used (Cateye ABS-20). They take a pair of NiCd batteries, which now when fully charged only give about 15m of light! Originally they only gave about 90m charged which isn't all that great. Question is can I bin these useless old batteries and opt for a smaller battery pack, that will last at least 12hrs or so per charge? Or is that unrealistic.

Anything less and it starts to become a hassle. Re-charging a battery pack every 48hrs doesn't really chime with my idea of fixed wheel low-maintenance.

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I also have a once loved ABS-20 with a faulty switch and poor battery life. I would love to know of suitable newer, smaller battery packs and suitable cabling. I'm not keen on the Chinese eBay stuff as many come with plugs that don't meet the appropriate British Standard and have chargers that electricians have described as a fire hazard.

For 12 hours at 10W, you'd need a battery that gives about 20AH at 6V, that's quite a lot of battery.

I have a LiIon battery that gives me 15AH at 3.7V and weights 315g, you'd need something bigger, you'd be looking at about 700g.

For my use I'm happy with 3-5 hours, although I appreciate lpg's point concerning low maintenance.

You could perhaps change the bulbs for 5W or only run one 10W? That way you'd get longer runtime or smaller battery pack.

LEDs is where it's at.

CREE LEDs at that.

Saw someone riding along the North Circular on Friday night with no illumination whatsoever. Having said that, traffic was only doing about 5mph

CREE LEDs at that.

Trying to convert A lumicycle HID one to LED. The choices with Cree lights is astonishing! Advances in the tech have come by leaps.

In other news. Love my Moon Comets. Solidly built and bright lights with great clamping system (Seat clamp and rubber wrap around mounts) but if you're not strobing, don't expect them to last much! In fact, charging them every night is a strong possibility.

Trying to convert A lumicycle HID one to LED. The choices with Cree lights is astonishing! Advances in the tech have come by leaps.

In other news. Love my Moon Comets. Solidly built and bright lights with great clamping system (Seat clamp and rubber wrap around mounts) but if you're not strobing, don't expect them to last much! In fact, charging them every night is a strong possibility.

Do these Cree LEDs come in a model without an external battery pack + maybe USB rechargeable? That would be brilliant - I'm not sure I see it as progress if you have to constantly recharge the lights. One of the reasons I ride fixed is because if choose to I don't have to mess about fixing/adjusting things. I'm only riding in town so something just a bit better than a standard Cateye that takes a pair of AAs would be fine for me anyway, if the trade-off is I can fit and forget for a few weeks or so. And easy to remove is a big plus.

Do these Cree LEDs come in a model without an external battery pack + maybe USB rechargeable? That would be brilliant - I'm not sure I see it as progress if you have to constantly recharge the lights. One of the reasons I ride fixed is because if choose to I don't have to mess about fixing/adjusting things. I'm only riding in town so something just a bit better than a standard Cateye that takes a pair of AAs would be fine for me anyway, if the trade-off is I can fit and forget for a few weeks or so. And easy to remove is a big plus.

The Cree's and Moon lights are completely separate. The Lumicycle/Cree conversion is a battery pack shindig.

The Moon lights are brilliant, especially short stints in town. The lights have a few modes. Continuous and Strobing. Continuous has 3 settings. Bright, brighter, brightest. On Strobing, which also has 3 settings, brighter, brighter and fast strobe. The lights lasted over two days and probably more If I didn't simply charge it.
On continuous, they are nice and bright. At their brightest, I'd say around 3 hrs on full. They are fantastic, but for how compact they are, I bought them with full knowledge that they weren't made for long trips.
The mounting system is great too. Vertical or horizontal light mounts which are in turn, mounted to rubber straps. When I was using a steel frame with 1" headtube, I can easily secure the light around that. Now using a fatter alloy frame, I secure it around the spacer stack just beneath the stem. Works great.
Rear mount you have the rubber one, and seatclamp too. For either, you can quickly remove the lights to take with you.
Quickest method is rubber mounts, you can just flick them off and yank them back on.

If you're looking for fit and forget, USB probably isn't going to cut it. You want bright? Expect consumption. Li-Ion tech can only go so far, so "progress" is subjective. I wanted bright and compact. Downside is charging. I don't mind.

Great lights these.

^ got to agree, bought a set of the comets as back up, now I don't use anything else around town. They live in my bag whenever I go out, and I just connect them to my laptop when I am home.
Awesome fitting, awesome light output. and now about £17 each

Do these Cree LEDs come in a model without an external battery pack + maybe USB rechargeable? That would be brilliant - I'm not sure I see it as progress if you have to constantly recharge the lights. One of the reasons I ride fixed is because if choose to I don't have to mess about fixing/adjusting things. I'm only riding in town so something just a bit better than a standard Cateye that takes a pair of AAs would be fine for me anyway, if the trade-off is I can fit and forget for a few weeks or so. And easy to remove is a big plus.

If you dont mind USB charging the Cateye Volt 300 is excellent with a really long life in flashing and hyper-continuous mode. It also has a great beam profile and common as muck clamp (if like me you've had many Cateye lights).

http://dx.com/p/aest-yexa-01-magnalium-bike-stem-top-extend-frame-black-197816
Topcap light mount for less that a tenner doesn't look too bad either

anyone else find the exposure trace(r)s runtime is fairly low, even on the lowest brightness?

My Exposure Blaze is dead again. Ah well, at least I'm getting very good at sending stuff back to Wiggle.

BOOM! That Diablo deal at Evans appeared again!

Got Diablo for £115.18 including 4% Quidco cashbak!

Act quick! Only 1 left in stock if anyone wants it.

Cheaper than Joystick.

you did notice it comes with helmet mount only?

These arrived with both helmet and handlebar mount !

These arrived with both helmet and handlebar mount !

result, get a redeye to go with it now!

http://road.cc/content/news/99440-laser-bike-light-scoops-%C2%A310000-uk-student-business-prize

THIS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

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