Lighting

Confessions Of A Day & Night Flasher

Advantages: Such a simple idea - nothing to remember or buy batteries for
Disadvantages: Setting clearances of magnets is fiddly

...Club) magazine to espy the Reelight SL 120 lighting system on the back cover. The next day, outside the same school, blow me there's a bike with the damned things fitted, and yet I'd never seen them before in my life. Generally bike lighting falls into two categories, battery-powered and dynamo-powered. They both have their pros and cons. Battery lights stay on when you've stopped, but cost you money to run. OK, the modern breed of Light Emitting ...
...against the wind. Well Reelight have! (See www.2pure.co.uk) Someone's obviously put a lot of thought into this classically 'simple' idea; the simple idea being that if you pass a permanent magnet over an electrical coil, it induces a current into that coil. Do it often enough with a strong enough magnet and you've just reinvented the bike dynamo for the 21st century, only this time, thanks to LED lighting, the power needs are tiny, and therefore ...

BNibbles 14.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Reelight SL120

The best rear light available on a market

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...on it. About Blackburn Mars 3.0 has been named after a bright red planet visible from afar. It has seven superb right red LED's inside a sleek water resistant case. Lens optics increase visible distance and side LED's provide 180 degree safety-boosting visibility. Two AAA batteries should last for 50 - 150 hours on a flash mode. That information says producent and seems to be about right. I use in my lamp energizer rechargeable batteries. Some ...
...only, very small issue in Blackburn Mars 3.0 is when replacing batteries you need to unscrew 3 tiny screws. Is not a big deal as do not have to do it often. It has three modes: slow flashing, fast one (almost like strobe) and viper style but up side down. My most favourite is fast flah. Altogether Blackburn Mars is the greatest bicycle rear light I have ever had in my life. I like absolutely everything in it. It is nicely designed and you can rely ...

panther23 05.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blackburn Mars 3.0 Rear Light

Exposure Joystick MaXx - High quality bike light - but exclusive

Advantages: Bright!! Small, light, VERY High Quality, Narrow beam with long throw, Tough, Good battery life.
Disadvantages: Sphincter-tighteningly expensive, Narrow beam, Not really for bar-mounting. Overkill for the road.

...an addition to the larger Exposure bar lights. For the road it's overkill unless you're a speed freak or spend most of your time on unlit sections though I'd still recommend it for it's quality and squint-inducing beam for when you really need people to see you. It is so light and convenient (no external batteries) that you can leave it on your helmet all the time so you're never caught without a light. I love this light! ...

bab_f4 21.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Exposure Joystick MaXx

Excellent commuting light, but a bit expensive and poor mounting

Advantages: Excellent battery, bright
Disadvantages: Price, poor fixing bracket

The mounting bracket for this light is the sort that uses a strap which threads through an tightening screw. This allows the bracket to fit any size of handle bar or tube. However after a very muddy ride the bracket would not tighten or loosen, the only way to remove the fitting was to remove the handlebar grips, gear and brake leavers and slide the bracket of the handlebars. Turned out that a bit of mud had jammed the tightening screw, some wd40 ...
...bracket does loosen after a few rides, not a major issue but annoying just the same. The light can be easily removed from the fixing bracket, which is handy for leaving the bike in the town centre. Similarly, the bracket is also designed to be easily removed to fit between bikes, but as explained above it could be better. The EL320 does have a good battery run time, so far I have not had to replace the battery's in this light, despite using it for ...

emilne82 01.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of CatEye HL-EL320

Twinkle Twinkle For yer Bike

Advantages: Simple, no batteries, effective
Disadvantages: None

...cyclist who comes off worst. Pedalite is not a new concept, indeed I can remember seeing flyers advertising them over 10 years ago whilst shopping in a Hypermarket in France, but it has taken a little while to complete the journey across the Channel. These simple pedal replacements offer twinkling red, white and amber lights, with no batteries and really help improve the visibility of cyclists for other road users. They are however not a replacement ...
...on the new pedal. Each Pedalite pedal is marked with a large ‘L’ or ‘ R’ so you will be in no doubt which one goes where. Indeed you will probably have more difficulty removing the Pedalite pedals from the cardboard packaging, where they are tightly bound with strong fierce cable ties, than deciding where each should go. You will need a decent 14mm open ended spanner, rather than a cumbersome adjustable type since the distance from the crank is quite ...

suehome 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Pedalite Pedals