Andre it's excellent model is TL-LD1100 2 rows of lights and side lights as well very clever, does all kind of crazy stuff you could be at a disco ;D ;D but seriously very bright according to the box it can stay flashing constant for 100 hours i suppose you can take that with a pinch of salt ;)
but yeah excellent light chainreaction has then i think around 26 euro battery's included.
cot sure if you good weather in west cork last night but up here it rained all bloody night so night ride to test out the new toy ;D ;D actually it's still raining >:(
;D ;D same here Andre lashing it down.
btw i tried to get a zip tie on the rear light no luck ,but what i done i sliced a 6inch strip of black insulating tape about eight of an inch wide and very carefully wrapped it around that cap, it works great and can't really see the tape unless you look very hard. 8)
| (http://coolmainpress.com/miscimage/toplight_line_plus_and_catseye_tl-ld1100_on_andre_s_kranich.jpg) (http://coolmainpress.com/BICYCLING.html) | There you go, Jags. With apologies for not having time to clean a hard-used bike. (I mean, we all know Dan has two of each bike, one for use, one standing perfectly polished under a dust sheet ready to be photographed!) Of interest to those who pore over photographs. From the top: My leather saddlebag, the white-stitched brown leather item. Cateye TL-LD1100 rear lamp semi-perminently fixed to rack with tiewraps. Tubus Cosmos stainless steel rack. BUMM Toplight Line Plus dynamo rear light. SKS P65 mudguard, just barely big enough to cover 60mm Big Apples. The hole is for a previous rack, by SL, which had a fitting to stabilise the mudguard further. On the left, low down, my leather toolbag, actually a small lady's change purse, also brown leather to match the saddle and saddle bag; it holds enough tools to strip the bike, excluding the bottom bracket, and disassemble all the components, fix a flat, make more mundane adjustments. On the right one of my fave Basil Cardiff pannier baskets, very versatile in low-crime areas, can just be seen. Also on the right, three instances of the velcro strips that I wrap around the expensive rack to stop the basket abrading it, and to stop it wrecking the basket. Interestingly the lights aren't on, just reflecting the flash; you don't get anything except red glare if you try to photograph these lights in operation without proper filters. The Line Plus has no flash mode (bloody stupid German legislators!) so is used on steady day and night, driven off my 36V electric motor battery via the Fly E which feeds it the correct voltage, on whenever the bike systems are switched on with the master switch; it consumes minuscule power; the Cateye is used on flash day and night when I remember, but it is no longer as necessary as it once was, because the Line Plus is really very bright even in daylight. On busy roads I would still switch on the Cateye, but I try to avoid busy roads because I cycle for pleasure, not business. About your other question, Jags, that seems like a pretty good throw, certainly better than the last of the dynamo headlights I had until only a few years ago, maybe as good as some MR16 15W halogen lights I made inside little tomato puree tins (total cost under 5 and I ate the sauce on spaghetti!) and drove with 12V electric drill batteries, which I though was just the bees' knees and with which I made some amazing journeys. The problem with battery front lights is the awful choice between power consumption/distance/time and battery weight. An Electron setup I had gave either 5W or 15W from MR11 but was a misery on either because 5W wouldn't let you get up any speed on the country lanes and 15W would consume the batteries in 55 minutes, and growing ever less, whereas all my rides are at least 75m.... Andre Jute |
(I mean, we all know Dan has two of each bike, one for use, one standing perfectly polished under a dust sheet ready to be photographed!)
The hole is for a previous rack, by SL, which had a fitting to stabilise the mudguard further.
question for you and Dan looking at the post Dan put up on the light pattern of the cateye headlight ,how much better is the son dynamo and headlight compaired to that cateye light.