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I did a search on their website but did not find it.
Could they have discontinued it? Lewis. ******************** Ron Hardin wrote in message ... There's a $39.95 price at http://www.bikeman.com/ ship notice in a day, so they're apparently alive. |
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There's a $39.95 price at http://www.bikeman.com/
ship notice in a day, so they're apparently alive. BRBR We have them, $42+ shipping. Peter Chisholm Vecchio's Bicicletteria 1833 Pearl St. Boulder, CO, 80302 (303)440-3535 http://www.vecchios.com "Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene" |
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There's a $39.95 price at http://www.bikeman.com/
ship notice in a day, so they're apparently alive. BRBR We have them, $42+ shipping. Peter Chisholm Vecchio's Bicicletteria 1833 Pearl St. Boulder, CO, 80302 (303)440-3535 http://www.vecchios.com "Ruote convenzionali costruite eccezionalmente bene" |
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The light is surprisingly good. Not an illuminate-the-night light,
but adequate for dark roads where other lights won't be competing with it much. The EL-300 could never quite see far enough ahead and made you ride slowly; this has a good beam shape, one lane wide at about the distance you need to see at to clip along at good speed, and a feeling that you're getting more than occasional individual photons back. The light is amazingly packaged, very small for the contents; even the box is quite a work of design (you can open it without tearing but it may take a while to figure it out). It's still a tunnel-vision experience but good enough to ride fast by on a good road, where you only need to know where the lane is in spite of occasional oncoming cars. I'll keep my two HL-1500's on the handlebars too, for the heavy city traffic parts of the trip, or the pothole segment, but mostly I can turn them off and just use this baby. It says it runs 30 hours, against 3 for the HL-1500's. All use 4 AA's. It's about the brightness of a HL-1500 on ``half'' power, but that's a lot less than half the brightness of a HL-1500; I'd been mostly running them on half power to stretch the battery time to cover the full trip though. (``Tunnel-vision experience - you're frequently reminded of places you grew up, because you see so little at once that only one feature has to match to get an association to kick in. That doesn't happen with brighter lights.) -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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I finally got to use the EL-500 light yesterday on my 12.5 mile
commute to work. Since 8 of those miles are around Lake Benbrook, (no traffic) I thought this would be a great day to test it and I started out at 5.30am. The only problem was that we were having a violent thunderstorm at the time and there was _SO_ much lightning that I could have done the trip quite well with NO lights. Hopefully I will get to test it under better conditions this weekend but, so far, my impression is that it is a fairly adequate light and _much_ brighter than my Cateye Opticube light. Lewis. ************************************* Ron Hardin wrote in message ... The light is surprisingly good. Not an illuminate-the-night light, but adequate for dark roads where other lights won't be competing with it much. The EL-300 could never quite see far enough ahead and made you ride slowly; this has a good beam shape, one lane wide at about the distance you need to see at to clip along at good speed, and a feeling that you're getting more than occasional individual photons back. The light is amazingly packaged, very small for the contents; even the box is quite a work of design (you can open it without tearing but it may take a while to figure it out). It's still a tunnel-vision experience but good enough to ride fast by on a good road, where you only need to know where the lane is in spite of occasional oncoming cars. I'll keep my two HL-1500's on the handlebars too, for the heavy city traffic parts of the trip, or the pothole segment, but mostly I can turn them off and just use this baby. It says it runs 30 hours, against 3 for the HL-1500's. All use 4 AA's. It's about the brightness of a HL-1500 on ``half'' power, but that's a lot less than half the brightness of a HL-1500; I'd been mostly running them on half power to stretch the battery time to cover the full trip though. (``Tunnel-vision experience - you're frequently reminded of places you grew up, because you see so little at once that only one feature has to match to get an association to kick in. That doesn't happen with brighter lights.) |
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