We entered the crazy world of Knog to see their new lights. These are not the kind of things you’d use off road unless you were going very slowly, but we find riding round Calderdale as the nights draw in, this time of year tends to be when you’ll start to need something red and blinky on the back for the odd stretch of road.
I reckon that’s voided the warranty. Still, interesting to know that, unlike all other electronics, Knog lights don’t run on magic smoke.
Their familiar blinder range has had a revamp, with the inevitable march of LED tech giving them brighter lights with better power consumption. The higher end blinders have replaceable bands, which have previously been their achilles heel: Much as we like them, our household does have a small collection of older ones with broken silicone bands. The shape at the back has been slightly redesigned to fit anything from a 31.8 to aero bars.
Their established Blinder range have been spruced up with various different LEDs, brightness levels and beam angles.
As well as that, Knog have a new range of battery powered Pop II lights, modelled by various mannequin parts and available in a bewildering array of colours and patterns. We also found out that fake blood can’t fool our cameras. More info at knog.com.au
Also, replaceable bands!Blinders.Not sure what depth they’re waterproof to, but I’d guess less than a GoPro, and enough that you’d be worrying about your hubs, seatpost, and general safety first.The new battery powered POP II lights.The waldos are a demo station for opening up the battery powered lights. Or touching a female-gendered mannequin head. Personally, I think it would have been more fun and tactile to go for an angry Mayan god face.O--kay.
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
Replaceable bands won’t keep me from losing them though.