Front lights
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Ah, it's all coming flooding back...
Actually, we found a pretty good cure for the clamps not holding; we would stretch an old piece of inner tube over the ball part of the bracket and wrap a length of inner tube around the handlebars where the clamp went as well.
Sadly, there wasn't such an easy cure for the dismal light output and pathetic run times.
Ah, it's all coming flooding back...
Actually, we found a pretty good cure for the clamps not holding; we would stretch an old piece of inner tube over the ball part of the bracket and wrap a length of inner tube around the handlebars where the clamp went as well.
Sadly, there wasn't such an easy cure for the dismal light output and pathetic run times.
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I did the inner tube thing, too.
Lights were pretty much all crap, back then, really. If you did a lot of cycling at night or in winter, then I used a dynamo - never bothered with those posh ones that had a battery backup.
What was good about these - perhaps the only good thing, was how easily they could be mounted. It was only if they were mounted on handlebars they'd droop, and if so, a bit of handlebar tape or inner-tube would cure that. Sure the output was crap, the batteries awkward to get hold of, but they were much more flexible than most that preceded them, plus they were easily removed when locking your bike up.
'cos clearly, being such awesome lights, they were at great risk of being nicked...
Get outta my head!xerxes":3jhocikl said:
Ah, it's all coming flooding back...
Actually, we found a pretty good cure for the clamps not holding; we would stretch an old piece of inner tube over the ball part of the bracket and wrap a length of inner tube around the handlebars where the clamp went as well.
Sadly, there wasn't such an easy cure for the dismal light output and pathetic run times.
I did the inner tube thing, too.
Lights were pretty much all crap, back then, really. If you did a lot of cycling at night or in winter, then I used a dynamo - never bothered with those posh ones that had a battery backup.
What was good about these - perhaps the only good thing, was how easily they could be mounted. It was only if they were mounted on handlebars they'd droop, and if so, a bit of handlebar tape or inner-tube would cure that. Sure the output was crap, the batteries awkward to get hold of, but they were much more flexible than most that preceded them, plus they were easily removed when locking your bike up.
'cos clearly, being such awesome lights, they were at great risk of being nicked...
