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These are not far off. Flange nut still ultimately more secure and foolproof though. Personally a nicely machined open face chamfered nut > dome nut but thats just me

Supernice

Co-opted August Cycles’ Salsa liplock lamp bracket mod.

M3 bolt + brake pad hardware.

Anyone know the shear strength of a stainless m3 bolt, the force put out by brake housing?

Its just a chamfered low profile nut. Think what I had was a specific machines parts or possibly marine specialty sort of thing (ie for not snagging sails / spinnaker). It was old stock from my old man’s work so could be either

Almost like deeper hex version of this

Bit like this, but deeper and more chamfer

True, and true.

I guess its not ugly if bolt ends nicely chamfered, and the nuts are posh enough?

Once upon a time had a stash of these beautiful low profile stainless m5 nuts that had their shoulders chamfered off, so were very low stack, and sort of domed. Really helpful as no idea what to even google for

Socket sleeve nut?

Also these fugly things:

The reason they didnt catch on is because they were a half idea poorly executed that actively engaged with being a gimmick rather than functionally useful.

I've found the Seemee is pretty good for this. And on front I use a wide bar style lamp rather than direct beam as they usually cast wider (more obvious) and less direct (less blinding). Sometimes I have another beam out front if I know I'm going somewhere with no road lighting or low traffic.

For the model of Seemee I have (300) the downlight is an optional mode, and there's a multitude of mode options for various degrees of power saving and rear / down light. Max run time is listed at ~200hrs which I've not been close to testing the limits of. They even have a little matrix for you to work out whats what (attached).
Re: night vision. My experience of this light is that positioning is down and behind enough that it's out of sight. In pitch darkness out in lanes or similar I'm sure it would be more noticeable. Kind of by the by ...red light is notoroiously A-ok for preseving night adjusted vision which is why a lot of modern head torches have red light modes.

Less heat, arguably better flavour

IMO at that level of heat it's piss in the ocean, but I think Buldak x2 is probably just a bit hotter (also unenjoyable). Only time I have enjoyed x2 is when I picked up by accident and ended up mixing 1/4 sauce packet with miso, peanut butter, mirin and egg

Fishing to see if anyone has a 60 or 70mm steel, pinch bolt style ahead stem languishing in their parts bin.

Needs to be 1 1/8 x 31.8 x 60mm,
Nice if it's 0º, but not necessary
Nice if it's normal stack, but not averse to tall boy
Nice if bar clamp is faceplate (rather than pinch)
Any colour, any make

There is no antidote for cuntily not looking, but also not sure it tracks to be fatalistic about things that help mitigate risk in other circumstances.

What evidence do you need to see? Subjectively,I find the downlights on my Seemee work better than single source lights as they reflect on bike + me as well as demarking road space under the bike. Harder to miss is harder to miss, and I'm pretty confident this gives drivers more readily visual information about a cyclist (size, speed, direction, etc) but also is more obvious / discernable at distance and in peripheral views, at a glance, etc. I do not need a flawed study to tell me that.

Inedible levels of hot. Do not recommend.

one Mamnick chip fork away from LFGSS bingo

+1 for proximity warning. Getting brighter or simple flash mode. Could be directional according to threat.

Guess you just don’t want anything that could distract or confuse drivers or other cyclists at critical moments like an overtake.

Related: Good to see more lights on the market with braking indication too (accelerometers)

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Better it's red spectrum light I think (due to how people reflexively read lights of different colours and what they mean on the road) Magicshine does this already quite well: https://magicshineuk.com/product/seemee-300-smart-tail-light/

1.0 Use a mount style that is ubiquitous and brand agnostic already (i.e if it's quick mount bracket type thing – GoPro, Garmin, etc etc etc compatible). We dont need new proprietary solutions for problems that have been solved multiple times. (Fuck you Magicshine Seemee micro-garmin-style-mounts)
1.1 Make the mount element on the light itself bolt on and exchangeable
1.2 Be mindful of orientaiton and mount points. Assume users will want to attach in multiple ways to bikes and mount points of various size+ shape; bolt on straight, bolt on sideways, bolt under, direct to saddle rail, ø22.2 - 31.8 handlebars, ø16-22 stays, round things, oval things, square things, textile things, stem things, etc etc etc.
1.3 Don't rely on single piece silicone for casing + mounting. When it's broken, it's in the bin. Related: minimise mouldings, rubberised coatings and anything else that is clearly going to be rendered useless or unusable through use.
2.0 Secondary Downlights (like the Masgicshine Seemee) are a great way to increase visibility (on rear lights).
2.1 Secondary downlights or floor marking on front lights are unecessary and distracting for riders and drivers alike
3.0. Aggressive flash and rhrythm modes are incredibly dangerous to all other road users, especially at high lumen. Distracting and dazzling is not "seen".
3.1 Invent a way to stop fuckwits mounting their front lights at 90º+ ... Anti-tilt? Accelerometer driven self righting internal lamp shade? Alarm warnings for elevated mounting? Pie in the face? Whatever works
4.0 Replaceable rechargeable battery cells
4.1 USB c input for battery (we dont need proprietary magnetic charging cables)

Wait till you hear who owns most of British Telecom

On the name change – perhaps a bit erroneous and distracting from the real hurdles here. At one time it was indicative of localisation but it's easy to argue that the acronym has taken on it's own meaning and weight detached from it's originating nomenclature. My understanding is that it isn't likely a legal stick you can be beat with

They are not even comparable.

Totally unserious that Labour have scheduled new regs to come into force so far away in June.

And fuck knows why some sort of retail licensing or import license framework for vapes isn't in place, or even scheduled. Same for an eco tax. Two of the lowest possible hanging fruit for putting some sort of interim control in place. And they whine about not being able to raise enough tax and duty revenue.