Stupid New Years Resolution!
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joe58 said:
Are they legal? Audi are developing something similar for cars.
I have no idea about the legality. I think they "show lights only" at the moment. Most of the ones I've seen are Chinese imports and the ones for sale in the UK are a little sketchy as whether they are "E" marked or not (not that bike lights need to be "E" marked at all but it has made them panic a bit when you ask). Liquid Knight said:
I have no idea about the legality. I think they "show lights only" at the moment. Most of the ones I've seen are Chinese imports and the ones for sale in the UK are a little sketchy as whether they are "E" marked or not (not that bike lights need to be "E" marked at all but it has made them panic a bit when you ask).
It's just that they have lasers on. That was all.380 sold and more than 10 available. Mine is in the post. 
This morning was a blow out; literally. The weather forecast lied to me again and I underestimated the near Gale force headwind. Twenty minutes to get less than a third of the way and it took five minutes to get home and in the car.
Sorry but there are only two things in the world I hate. Being late and Folk Music.
Well there are probably a load more but for comedy value I'll stick to the Sir Thomas Beecham reverence.
This morning was a blow out; literally. The weather forecast lied to me again and I underestimated the near Gale force headwind. Twenty minutes to get less than a third of the way and it took five minutes to get home and in the car.
Sorry but there are only two things in the world I hate. Being late and Folk Music.
Well there are probably a load more but for comedy value I'll stick to the Sir Thomas Beecham reverence.
Letting the side down today. I borrowed dads car again. Not because I got a few miles into my journey and turned back in the torrential driving wind and rain. No; I looked out the window and really couldn't be arsed.
Sorry.
The first time in a month the weather forecast has been right though.
Sorry.
The first time in a month the weather forecast has been right though.
I think a new front light to go with the laser rear.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultrafire-3800-Lumen-3x-...
That'll do.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultrafire-3800-Lumen-3x-...
That'll do.
Just when you thought it was safe to drive on the country lanes of Norfolk...
Okay I cycled to work this morning. I'm fed up of driving dads car. It's not a proper car in my opinion. ABS, power steering and gutless. Seriously my 999cc Panda is a better drivers car than the 1.5 Hyundai Accent coupe (three door hatchback).
Having said that any car is safer in fog than cycling.
Until now.
The laser light is really good. The laser reflecting off the floor isn't as good as the photo's suggest but the novelty of it means I have drivers attention from behind as much as the Joker mask does up front. So much so one driver opened his window and asked me where I'd got it from at a set of traffic lights. The five LED light is also very good. Three rear facing and two at about a thirty degree angle are as good as my old cateye. Two problems, with the lasers on the batteries don't last very long and the light is quite bulky and bounces about a bit. If the light switch hits anything it goes to mode two that is a very illegal strobe light. Red strobes and lasers it's like cycling through 1992.
Apart from that a good bargain priced light and it looks a bit like an alien head from War of the Worlds, that's never a bad thing.
Okay I cycled to work this morning. I'm fed up of driving dads car. It's not a proper car in my opinion. ABS, power steering and gutless. Seriously my 999cc Panda is a better drivers car than the 1.5 Hyundai Accent coupe (three door hatchback).
Having said that any car is safer in fog than cycling.
Until now.
The laser light is really good. The laser reflecting off the floor isn't as good as the photo's suggest but the novelty of it means I have drivers attention from behind as much as the Joker mask does up front. So much so one driver opened his window and asked me where I'd got it from at a set of traffic lights. The five LED light is also very good. Three rear facing and two at about a thirty degree angle are as good as my old cateye. Two problems, with the lasers on the batteries don't last very long and the light is quite bulky and bounces about a bit. If the light switch hits anything it goes to mode two that is a very illegal strobe light. Red strobes and lasers it's like cycling through 1992.
Apart from that a good bargain priced light and it looks a bit like an alien head from War of the Worlds, that's never a bad thing.
Ho-ray for f
kwit Thursday.
1/ My dust caps were clean and tyres 10-15Psi lower than when I left it.
2/ I think I can overtake this cyclist ten feet away from a red traffic light.
3/ That cyclist on a red a white bike with three front lights and a rider wearing bright yellow and orange is far enough away for me to pull out of this junction. Whoops! Maybe not.
4/ I think I'll overtake this cyclist and park in the cycle lane.
5/ That red bit past the stop line of a junction with a bicycle painted on the floor must be for my Citroen Picasso.
6/ I think it's safe to overtake this cyclist stop in front of a shop and open the door without looking.
7/ Three Inches is more than enough room to overtake a cyclist an a national speed limit road.
8/ I don't need to dip my headlights to cyclists x5 (just wait).
9/ If I overtake this cyclist just before I turn left it will save 0.6 seconds from my journey.
10/ I can overtake this cyclist on a blind bend. Oh, hang on he's going just below the speed limit. Oh carp! there's someone coming the other way. Never mind I can cut the cyclist up instead of having a head on. It's his fault for going too fast anyway.
Thank you to the driver of the Fiat Punto who waited behind me a whole fifty Yards before turning left behind me. I was so busy waving to the driver in appreciation I nearly hit the curb.
kwit Thursday. 1/ My dust caps were clean and tyres 10-15Psi lower than when I left it.
2/ I think I can overtake this cyclist ten feet away from a red traffic light.
3/ That cyclist on a red a white bike with three front lights and a rider wearing bright yellow and orange is far enough away for me to pull out of this junction. Whoops! Maybe not.
4/ I think I'll overtake this cyclist and park in the cycle lane.
5/ That red bit past the stop line of a junction with a bicycle painted on the floor must be for my Citroen Picasso.
6/ I think it's safe to overtake this cyclist stop in front of a shop and open the door without looking.
7/ Three Inches is more than enough room to overtake a cyclist an a national speed limit road.
8/ I don't need to dip my headlights to cyclists x5 (just wait).
9/ If I overtake this cyclist just before I turn left it will save 0.6 seconds from my journey.
10/ I can overtake this cyclist on a blind bend. Oh, hang on he's going just below the speed limit. Oh carp! there's someone coming the other way. Never mind I can cut the cyclist up instead of having a head on. It's his fault for going too fast anyway.
Thank you to the driver of the Fiat Punto who waited behind me a whole fifty Yards before turning left behind me. I was so busy waving to the driver in appreciation I nearly hit the curb.
Liquid Knight said:
Ho-ray for fkwit Thursday.
1/ My dust caps were clean and tyres 10-15Psi lower than when I left it.
2/ I think I can overtake this cyclist ten feet away from a red traffic light.
3/ That cyclist on a red a white bike with three front lights and a rider wearing bright yellow and orange is far enough away for me to pull out of this junction. Whoops! Maybe not.
4/ I think I'll overtake this cyclist and park in the cycle lane.
5/ That red bit past the stop line of a junction with a bicycle painted on the floor must be for my Citroen Picasso.
6/ I think it's safe to overtake this cyclist stop in front of a shop and open the door without looking.
7/ Three Inches is more than enough room to overtake a cyclist an a national speed limit road.
8/ I don't need to dip my headlights to cyclists x5 (just wait).
9/ If I overtake this cyclist just before I turn left it will save 0.6 seconds from my journey.
10/ I can overtake this cyclist on a blind bend. Oh, hang on he's going just below the speed limit. Oh carp! there's someone coming the other way. Never mind I can cut the cyclist up instead of having a head on. It's his fault for going too fast anyway.
Thank you to the driver of the Fiat Punto who waited behind me a whole fifty Yards before turning left behind me. I was so busy waving to the driver in appreciation I nearly hit the curb.
The disco 3 driver who pulled out infront of me on a 30 mph downhill stretch got a fecking shock yesterday when i had to decide brakes or nail it, I was already doing 37 when i put the hammer down and went for it, no idea what speed I was doing as I sailed past him; fortunately the road surface was crap so i didn't dare take a hand off the bars and give him the finger kwit Thursday. 1/ My dust caps were clean and tyres 10-15Psi lower than when I left it.
2/ I think I can overtake this cyclist ten feet away from a red traffic light.
3/ That cyclist on a red a white bike with three front lights and a rider wearing bright yellow and orange is far enough away for me to pull out of this junction. Whoops! Maybe not.
4/ I think I'll overtake this cyclist and park in the cycle lane.
5/ That red bit past the stop line of a junction with a bicycle painted on the floor must be for my Citroen Picasso.
6/ I think it's safe to overtake this cyclist stop in front of a shop and open the door without looking.
7/ Three Inches is more than enough room to overtake a cyclist an a national speed limit road.
8/ I don't need to dip my headlights to cyclists x5 (just wait).
9/ If I overtake this cyclist just before I turn left it will save 0.6 seconds from my journey.
10/ I can overtake this cyclist on a blind bend. Oh, hang on he's going just below the speed limit. Oh carp! there's someone coming the other way. Never mind I can cut the cyclist up instead of having a head on. It's his fault for going too fast anyway.
Thank you to the driver of the Fiat Punto who waited behind me a whole fifty Yards before turning left behind me. I was so busy waving to the driver in appreciation I nearly hit the curb.
Liquid Knight said:
8/ I don't need to dip my headlights to cyclists x5 (just wait).
Woooo-Ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1800-Lumen-CREE-XML-T6-L...
Shame the delivery date is 05/11/12
Wowzers!
A few days in a tin a box and I become hypersensitive. It may well have had something to do with this...
...I've invested a whole £10 in a new kettle at work so yesterday I had coffee instead of coffee flavored cement. Seriously the inside of the old kettle looked like photos sent by the Mars Rover.
Yes there are pillocks on the road and to be honest I'm one of them. When a car fails to dip their headlights I tend to drift into the center of the road until they see me and dip them or have to stop. Knobish in the extreme but it gets the job done 98% of the time. The new light will (hopefully) solve this.
eBay update. My light is marked as dispatched and has an estimated arrival date of the 1st instead of the 5th.
A few days in a tin a box and I become hypersensitive. It may well have had something to do with this...
...I've invested a whole £10 in a new kettle at work so yesterday I had coffee instead of coffee flavored cement. Seriously the inside of the old kettle looked like photos sent by the Mars Rover.
Yes there are pillocks on the road and to be honest I'm one of them. When a car fails to dip their headlights I tend to drift into the center of the road until they see me and dip them or have to stop. Knobish in the extreme but it gets the job done 98% of the time. The new light will (hopefully) solve this.
eBay update. My light is marked as dispatched and has an estimated arrival date of the 1st instead of the 5th.
Liquid Knight said:
I bought one of these simply because having lasers is cool. I've yet to use them though - you? If so, what do you reckon?HurryUpAndWait said:
Liquid Knight said:
I bought one of these simply because having lasers is cool. I've yet to use them though - you? If so, what do you reckon?Here's another idea I've been looking into.
http://youtu.be/rMdsHVP2Ai0
$250 per wheel is a bit harsh when these...
...are £1.99 a pair and do a similar job.
So yesterday evening was a really good ride home. Head wind, cold, not much traffic and I managed a couple of good deeds. I stopped to help a chap in a Focus with a puncture and as I was being overtaken by an HGV I swerved a little to avoid a hedgehog, the driver saw what I did and why so I got a thumb up when he was in view.
The weather forecast suggested an overnight frost and little wind this morning. At half three I was woken up by biblical rain, hail, sleet, and snow being punted along by near gale force winds. So I hit the snooze button twice and took dads car.
The weather forecast suggested an overnight frost and little wind this morning. At half three I was woken up by biblical rain, hail, sleet, and snow being punted along by near gale force winds. So I hit the snooze button twice and took dads car.
I don't want to shock or cause any undue upset so if you are of a nervous disposition please look away now. I'm going commando tonight. My water resistant jacket isn't and it soaked through to my t'shirt and as my t'shirt was tucked into to waterproof trousers I got very wet underneath. Literally soaked through to the skin. So while my boxers are drying on the little heater in my plastic office I'm going without.
Now I could have taken dads car tonight but because I'm not going home until Tuesday (long story) I couldn't deprive the folks from transportation. I could have put tomorrows trolleys on instead but due to my redesigning my rear mud guard to make room for more lights than a council estate in February it guards mud and water spray about as well as my waterproof jacket. so the clothes in my bag are wetter than the ones I was wearing.
Hmmmmm... I need to rethink my lighting arrangements.
Apart from that arriving was an achievement in itself as the Betty Ford clinic road surface was extra wet and slippery when I managed to get any speed up the front was unsteady. When being the operative word there because the head wind was a pain in the cheeks. I arrived looking like Lesley Nielsen after the potters wheels scene from Naked Gun and I hadn't been off road.
So alcoholic surface wipes and a small sink with warm water later I'm almost presentable. Lucky it's Sunday and there's nobody about my little plastic office looks like a modern art installation.
Now I could have taken dads car tonight but because I'm not going home until Tuesday (long story) I couldn't deprive the folks from transportation. I could have put tomorrows trolleys on instead but due to my redesigning my rear mud guard to make room for more lights than a council estate in February it guards mud and water spray about as well as my waterproof jacket. so the clothes in my bag are wetter than the ones I was wearing.
Hmmmmm... I need to rethink my lighting arrangements.
Apart from that arriving was an achievement in itself as the Betty Ford clinic road surface was extra wet and slippery when I managed to get any speed up the front was unsteady. When being the operative word there because the head wind was a pain in the cheeks. I arrived looking like Lesley Nielsen after the potters wheels scene from Naked Gun and I hadn't been off road.
So alcoholic surface wipes and a small sink with warm water later I'm almost presentable. Lucky it's Sunday and there's nobody about my little plastic office looks like a modern art installation.
Got a good four hours sleep today. Mostly due to my room being South facing and once the cloud, rain and fog had cleared it was like midsummer mid morning. Also a house fly decided my left ear was an ideal landing pad and in the course of an hour landed there at least six times. This always poses a conundrum. Do I wake up fully and deal with the insect or leave it be and try to rest? I chose the later and managed snoozes between landings. Had I have got up and chased it out of my room or killed it the open sentence today would have been. "Got two hours of sleep today".
Today is Friday for me and I'm off work and weather depending working on my Panda for the next three days. It's starting to get dark as I'm writing this and my new front light arrived in the post today so I've spent the afternoon re-revising the lights on my bike ready for the commute.
Thumbsnap is acting up so I'll upload the photos later.
With 1,800 lumen up front now I'm looking forward to the first car that doesn't see me later.
Today is Friday for me and I'm off work and weather depending working on my Panda for the next three days. It's starting to get dark as I'm writing this and my new front light arrived in the post today so I've spent the afternoon re-revising the lights on my bike ready for the commute.
Thumbsnap is acting up so I'll upload the photos later.
With 1,800 lumen up front now I'm looking forward to the first car that doesn't see me later.
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