Found Thursday evening: a rear light still flashing in the gutter of Stenhouse Drive, just east of the exit from the Broomhouse path onto the road. PM me with a description/model of light if it's yours :-)
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Have you lost a rear light?
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Mine was an EBC one you could recharge off your laptop, in red, had it for a long time before trying to use it to keep a light with an even weaker attachment on the bike. That light I still have but me wee red one has gone west.i would say near the pinch point at viewforth. Curiously I saw a similar one in the road a week or two previously and my new one from EBC sale also has poor attachment.
Attachment disorder in weans and bike lights - my two worlds have collided!?
Curiously, I have retrieved a particularly nice handkerchief I had lent to my daughter who then left it in a restaurant so maybe there is hope for the wee light, as still not quite bright enough yet on the commutes, but won't be too long. Hurrah!!
Posted 10 years ago # -
The rear ebc rechargables definitely less good than the fronts. We've lost at least one. And they're too tight for the stem on my folder.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've lost 2 Comet Moon lights in recent months, the original and its replacement.
By "lost" I mean I'm confident they were swiped off the back of the bike at work in the basement.
Swines.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've lost one of the long thin EBC non-usb types recently. Unfortunately I don't think I lost it near there so alas I don't it's mine.
And by "lost" I mean I lost them in high speed off the back off the bike due to complete incompetence on my part and an unwillingness to dive into two lanes of angry traffic.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I saw a Revolution rear (not flashing) on the A90 path but I was with a mate and by the time it had registered i couldn't stop to pick it up.
Posted 10 years ago # -
There's a smart-type rear light lying at the edge of the path adjacent to the A90, near the turn up the hill to Dalmeny.
Its near the section where all the rainwater collects at the side of the A90 when its pouring down.
Its not in a spot where anyone would be kinetically disposed to stop and pick it up, so there's a fair chance it will be still be there on the commute home.
Posted 10 years ago # -
heh !
snap, daveC
Posted 10 years ago # -
@DaveC, bax... just to say that's not mine, but thanks for mentioning it. Nice thing Snowy did advertising that find here - I think you should grab the light you saw if it's still there and do the same! My attitude to a lost light is that someone else now has it - certainly in my case it wasn't there when I went back, and I'd rather that than it got smashed up and littered the roads...
Posted 10 years ago # -
I found quite a nice front light, still flashing, submerged in the Braid Burn near Cameron Toll. It was on the far side, away from the uncycleable path that cuts from Gilmerton Road through the small wood in front of the Scout hall.
I'm still totally baffled as to what it was doing there. Maybe some sort of obscure joke?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ahhh I thought this might be my girlfriends! However I can't see why she'd have been over that side of town as she would have been going from roseburn to work in crammond. Will pm description just in case!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Maybe someone saw it, picked it up, attached it and rode off with it, only for it to fall off again...
Posted 10 years ago # -
yeah that's what I was thinking! I've sent over the description so we'll see!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Hi @ARobComp, replied to your PM, sadly it's not one of those.
I think I only lost one rear light in 2013, which isn't too bad. You know what I'd find useful...a pannier rack which has the rear light completely built in so that it can neither be dislodged nor swiped.
Posted 10 years ago #
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