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Light Theft (solutions - small pocket lights, or heavy duty well secured lights?)
In article , Paul Boyd
usenet.is.worse@plusnet says... bookieb said the following on 28/08/2007 17:10: The best compromise (IMO), is a good quality bottle dynamo setup, preferably complete with standlight. Just curious, and I suppose I could look it up, but are those bottom bracket roller dynamos still available? Or did everyone finally realise that they really are crap? They're not really crap at all - I've had a Soubitez one for about 20 years and it still works fine, no problem with slipping. Before I started using Soubitez I used to regularly destroy the bearings in Sanyo units, which could also slip quite badly. |
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Light Theft (solutions — small pocket lights, or heavy duty well secured lights?)
* Peter Fox wrote:
David Johnson wrote: * Peter Fox wrote: Don't worry about /carrying your lights in the daylight/. Why would you? Simply clip them to the bike. But leaving them on a bike in broad daylight in the centre of town means they'll inevitably end up getting half-inched. Or am I missing something? If the bike is parked carry them. Most people have somewhere they can carry their cycling stuff when not on it. But when going along (the op was going to the pub in daylight then returning after dusk) let the bike do the carrying. I was thinking more along the lines of I go into town in the daytime, leave my bike locked some place and do stuff in town all day. If I'm going round a friends or something it's no problem I can just leave the lights on the bike (or my plan was maybe get a Dynamo since I wont need batteries and hopefully they'll be unattractive and difficult to steal). I invariably end up meeting some people in a pub somewhere after my day out and end up getting home when it's dark. So my main problem is going into town in a T-shirt and Jeans and it being a hassle to lug around the lights (its mainly my front one that's massive, and I see someone has recommended a good small one so maybe that's the way to go) which I need to do so I don't get caught short and end up cycling with no lights. |
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Light Theft (solutions - small pocket lights, or heavy duty well secured lights?)
On Aug 28, 6:10 pm, bookieb wrote:
The best compromise (IMO), is a good quality bottle dynamo setup, preferably complete with standlight. Rose Versand (Germany) is a good place to look.http://www.roseversand.de/output/con...6&detail=2&det... Tellingly, they catagorise "lighting" under "bike parts" rather than "accessories". This thread got me interested in dynamos again. I don't fancy the hassle and expense of a hub dynamo and bottle dynamos are a bit pants in my experience. But that website also has spoke dynamos which seem to be a halfway house. Does anyone have experience of these and how easy are they to self fit. TIA LN |
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Light Theft (solutions — small pocket lights, or heavy duty well secured lights?)
Peter Fox wrote:
If the bike is parked carry them. Most people have somewhere they can carry their cycling stuff when not on it. When I'm just going down to the pub my "cycling stuff" is usually my bike and, errrr, that's it. Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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Light Theft (solutions — small pocket lights, or heavy duty well secured lights?)
David Johnson wrote:
Thanks for the advice. The reason I mention money is that if I'm going to save £100+ by getting LED lights then I can put up with the agro of lugging them about with me. I'll have a look into the Germany option and speak to Haywards tomorrow. If you are unlikely to use the dynamo under heavy rain, then a (decent make) bottle dynamo is more than adequate, and if you decide to get a hub dynamo, you can get them ready assembled with rim and spoke (you just add rim tape, tube, tyre and air ) I'd seriously consider the Germany option, I got my whole lighting setup (Basta bottle dynamo, B&M front & back standlights, wires, V-Brake dynamo adapter) from a german ebay seller for 67.45 Euro delivered to UK. The UK online stores which did stock dynamos & lights would have shafted me for nearly double that. |
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