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Pretty much as the title reads.....unfortunately i'm not made of money so not really wanting to spend £300 on some!
Any good stuff knocking around this year? Any suggestions? Any to stay away from?
Ta!
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/that-time-of-year-is-coming-again-whats-hot-in-the-lighting-world ]10 pages on this very item.[/url]
Top man! Plenty of reading material there.
Summary of all that:
Buy a solarstorm x2. Throw the battery away. Source quality cells, case, cabling and build a whizzy run-all-night system. Announce total cost of 2p 😉
Why you'd throw the batteries away, I do not know.
No problem with [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00FXLDEAO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ]these[/url]
that's a good price DezB
I bought a nice bright LED light about 18 months ago for £50 - [url= http://www.candb-seen.co.uk/bikehead-lights/cabs-02-series---cree-xml.html ]here[/url] - and I thought that was cheap. but < £20 ? that's crazy
Have recommended them to a few people at work and no-one's had any problems.
Just don't order from lightmalls.com
3 days since order and I'm still waiting for it to be packaged!
Processing-Waiting to be packed
You've found a good one then.
After mine failed, I didn't go the self-build route. I bought a ready-made replacement pack from torchy. V good so far.
Thanks DezB, I've added to my favourites for next months purchase 🙂
Yak, a correct summary if ever there was one! I'm no further on.....and even more confused....whats all this talk of people making there own?!? Have these people not got lives to get on with? Oh hang on, this is STW afterall!! 🙂
making your own was a good cut-price option when the only decent lights with long (i.e. over 2 hours) run time cost over £150. Then the Cateye Stadium - the first HID system - arrived at over £300; and some systems started approaching the price of a mid range hardtail
Now you can get LED lights that are way brighter than the brightest halogen systems available say 10 years ago, with 3+ hour run time, for under £50, it's not such a sensible option
Fun though, for some. Why cook when McD's do Drive thru?
Two solar storms here, one on the bars one on the lid. My house hasn't burnt down yet...
I didn't go down the cheap cheap route when I bought a light, but I did buy an "expensive" battery from mtbbatteries to match up to my magicshine head unit. In stw terms, it was very expensive at £75ish. I just like the reassurance that the battery should be reliable and I have back-up should anything go wrong.
If I was looking now, that moon light from Merlin looks a good offer and I'd use mtbbatteries again for their head light.
Lights can be had much cheaper but if you are budgeting for £300 the world is nearly your oyster.
But you can save a bundle building up your own system, if you have the inclination to read 10 pages of thread! 🙄
Edit....you aren't wanting to spend £300!
MTB Batteries job that costs about £120, I use it off-road and for commuting great bit of kit.
If you're put off by the idea of buying a light from China and then a battery pack, try here:
Cheers,
Si