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Too bright for night rides?

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https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/1574449009158197249?s=20&t=Jucr7IWw4x9Et6p4Ng4kgA

Bright light

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RTYB41P

This or that fifty quid Halfords one?


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 9:43 pm
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What's the run time at full power?


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 9:50 pm
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Getc a rack of four mounted on your helmet, people will think you're a lancia


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 9:54 pm
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There would still be a driver "didn't see yah mate" 🙁


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 10:02 pm
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I bet that has to throttle back the power output for heat reasons well before the battery goes flat.

Though I bet the matey doing last long either!


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 10:15 pm
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too bright when they start producing noticeable thrust !! 😉


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 10:17 pm
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He was asked to do a Batsignal and it set fire to the paper bat template in 2 seconds.


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 10:27 pm
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A mate bought one of these types of super bright lamps(not this one exactly) for use on the boat. It took 8h to charge and lasted 20 minutes.


 
Posted : 27/09/2022 11:57 pm
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60s runtime.

Reminds me of my teenage years.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 7:30 am
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I wonder at what point they'd get classed as an offensive weapon, I can see them being used at protests or riots for disrupting police etc. And how bright does it need to be to cause eye sight damage at close range?


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 9:42 am
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60s runtime.

Reminds me of my teenage years.

Show off


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 10:37 am
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It took 8h to charge and lasted 20 minutes.

roughly where I'm at now. Ah sorry, that's minutes?


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 10:41 am
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I guess it has the benefit that every ride will be dry and dusty


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 11:23 am
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Coming to your local shared use path soon. Now, that would be handy for vapourising the local scroates on the Fallowfield Loop.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 12:18 pm
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60s runtime.

Reminds me of my teenage years.

At least they'd see you coming.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 12:29 pm
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60s runtime.

Reminds me of my teenage years.

Come again?


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 12:44 pm
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What happens if you cross beams with another one?


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 1:32 pm
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I’ve got one of the small Imalent flashlights, and it managed to unlock itself inside its nylon holster and melted a hole through the nylon flap! It’s fairly thick material, too. Fortunately it didn’t melt any of my clothes.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 5:29 pm
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One thing I’ve often thought about for bike lights, and that’s a light with dip and high beam. I’ve only found one, and that’s by Nitecore but it’s well over £200! Surely it’s possible to create a lens which cuts off the top part of the beam, so you could have a twin-beam light with a switch to turn off thr main. My old Puma had projector lenses, one with a line across the lens which I think acted to cut off the top of the beam, so a cheap plastic version to fit a small twin beam LED light should surely be possible.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 6:26 pm
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There is a YouTube channel that tests torches like this. The unknown brand models from Amazon etc usually produce only a tiny fraction of their advertised lumen output. The know brand name ones meet and frequently exceed it - but they do cost a fair bit more


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 7:50 pm
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and that’s a light with dip and high beam.

Check out Ravemen lights PR series. The dip is not quite a hard cutoff like a car's but is a lot less glaring than most.


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 7:57 pm
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@countzero
Supernova M99 pro


 
Posted : 28/09/2022 7:57 pm
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Moon Meteor storm does that


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 7:37 am
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Trail not going where you want to be?

Fire this up and ride down the scorched clear earth. (Wait for the flames to subside first).


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 8:21 am
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There would still be a driver “didn’t see yah mate” 🙁

No one would see you - or anything else after having that pointed at them.


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 8:29 am
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No one would see you – or anything else after having that pointed at them.

I'm amazed at the number of riders who have so little regard for their own safety


 
Posted : 30/09/2022 9:41 am

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