http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Oldie but Goodie (Well, Python actually) en Mon, 18 May 2026 05:53:21 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-237692 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:47:29 +0000 SRD 237692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Neither mrSRD nor I could remember seeing this, but I thought someone must have shared it earlier. And they have. Link again to save you scrolling up. </p> <p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121658 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:31:35 +0000 EddieD 121658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And let us not mention the dynamos fitted to Raleigh bikes...which were more effective as brakes than energy producers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121657 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:28:52 +0000 Cyclingmollie 121657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We didn't have lights. It was no harder to cycle than to walk the minor roads and farm tracks in the dark. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121649 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:00:34 +0000 Arellcat 121649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Vintage bicycle lamps by Mike Gerrish, on Flickr</em></p> <p>The chunky ones at the top, unmistakeably Ever Ready, wouldn't look out of place on the front of a steam locomotive.</p> <p>Yet the ones at the bottom could have come out of the LBS yesterday. The teal coloured lights probably say 'Lezyne' on the other side, and the black one probably says 'Exposure'.</p> <p>My Ever Ready Nightriders ended up with bits of cardboard and kitchen roll inside them in a desperate bid to stop the batteries rattling. Not that there was much point since you never got much light out of them when running on 2.4V early rechargeables instead of 3V zinc chloride. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121643 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:37:53 +0000 EddieD 121643@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And then, of course, there was the fun every October of trying to chisel the corroded remnants of last year's batteries from the interior of the light. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121631 Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:13:09 +0000 Cyclingmollie 121631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>steveo:" the battery I got at Christmas was dead by mid January and I never had the money to buy fresh cells"</p> <p>Luxury. We had it tough. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121589 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:45:56 +0000 wee folding bike 121589@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>By '88 I was in London and only doing 5 miles each way. Winter daylight is markedly longer there so I didn't need to use them much. </p> <p>NiCads don't give you much warning about running out but I didn't need to be in early and never had to use lights in the morning so I had time to charge them up at work during the day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121584 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:26:42 +0000 steveo 121584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Commuting through the winter must have been a fraught/expensive/heavy affair on Alkaline d-cell'd energisers. They were the first lights I got as a kid and remember walking my bike back from my grans a <em>lot </em>because the battery I got at Christmas was dead by mid January and I never had the money to buy fresh cells. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121583 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:13:12 +0000 wee folding bike 121583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the battery was indeed papery.</p> <p>There was a tell tale on the top so you could tell it was on. I suppose that gives some idea of how bright they were.</p> <p>I got that in about '78. I still used it in early '81 but by '82 I had a plastic EverReady which was much better. Ran on SP2 (D cell) batteries.By the late '80s I was on the angled EverReady and nicads. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121537 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:09:41 +0000 chdot 121537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegerrish/5204428598/"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4108/5204428598_d5059c764e.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikegerrish/5204428598/">Vintage bicycle lamps</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mikegerrish/">Mike Gerrish</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121536 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:08:36 +0000 EddieD 121536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My first "racer"* was similar, but it was an EverReady lamp, and one day the bolt holding the clamp came loose and the light swung straight into my front wheel. Ow.</p> <p>*Puch Prima Super12 - back in the days when 2x6 was impressive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121535 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:03:44 +0000 panyagua 121535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember many a happy ride thumping my rear Pifco to try and get the flickery light to come back to full* brightness, while trying to keep half an eye on the road. Eventually scraped together the pennies for an EverReady, which were pretty much state of the art in terms of brighness and reliability in 1979. Those were the days indeed...</p> <p>* this is a relative term! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121483 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:49:51 +0000 gembo 121483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did the battery have a paper casing? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121481 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:02:19 +0000 wee folding bike 121481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Pifco I had needed a mad spendy battery, it had a screw as the on switch and it rusted like crazy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121476 Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:13:14 +0000 gembo 121476@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is one of the superhero powers of bicycle repairman, takes standard bike and soups up into top end vehicle for the period. I noticed the bracket on the fork for a pifco lamp, those were the days </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121467 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:49:10 +0000 crowriver 121467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, you're right. Only noticed on the second viewing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121458 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:52:21 +0000 wee folding bike 121458@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The bike changes. It starts out as a straight handlebar roadster but develops drops and derailleur by the end of the sketch. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10896#post-121448 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:03:09 +0000 crowriver 121448@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw</a></p> <p>Lovely old bike too. Raleigh methinks with dynohub, great bars, cork grips and saddle bag. </p>