ED1 - I had to read the manual to find that. Double press the button to get the flash settings. you'll see which one is strobe...
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Aldi cycling special buys
(246 posts)- Started 7 years ago by Bigjack
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Insto's Light&Motion Viz180° or whatever it was called had a pulse setting, where it ranged from searing to blinding and back every few seconds. Apart from the fact that you had to avert your eyes from the pulsingness was good at getting the attention less strobingly than a flashing light.
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I have the strobe effect now working, it will be like disco cycling tonight with so many having aldi strobe lights
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Didn't bother with the front lights as well covered there but always keen to improve on the rear. Geezo the moon nebula lookalikes are bright as !! Feel and look quality in build
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Well, I've now got two merino base layers (men's and women's) for just slightly over the price of what I would have paid for one in the Vulpine sample sale, if I'd managed to get through.
The women's is the same as the one I bought several years ago, except the seam stitching is slightly more eye-searingly pink. If it's anything like the old one (which is still going strong) it will outlast all of my Rapha and Vulpine kit (the last Vulpine base layer I got is now effectively a crop top for my 12-year-old niece). The men's is a bit Star Trek uniform in appearance but a nice strong red.
My conscience is hoping that it's the limited choice of colours and styles that makes it possible to sell them so cheaply and not sweated labour (or at least not any more sweated than anything else you buy on the High Street).
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I got the merino base layer in red also its made in china like an I phone that is not sold cheap if expensive or cheap very little part of price go to worker, I don’t suppose anyone has noticed anywhere with a lot of jackets I want a hi vis in extra large?
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Got the COB rear light (visible from space) the moon knock-offs and a pile of nice merino socks. First time in the new Chesser Aldi - Sheffield racks near the door, they are a bit too close to the wall.
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ED1- there was tone this morning in Duloch. If you were to head over the bridge you could try there and the Dunfermline branch- they are ~2-3 miles apart
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Got a few lights as backups, happy to find that they even fit into the holdery bits for my Moon light, so there'll be no faff when changing between them.
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With moon lights and these Aldi copies I find I cannot switch them on. They work if someone else switches them on for me but I can't do it. The front one I bought was 240 lumens. For 12 quid. That is 20 lumens a pound if only I could switch it on
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The secret is to press and not hold, gembo, to turn on. As opposed to press and hold to turn off. For the Aldi copies anyway. Obv.
All while pointing it anyway from you if you value your vision.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Ok, murun I will try the press and not hold.technique. I also noticed the double press advice to get the flashing so will try that too
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Popped in to see if the locusts had devoured everything. No merino left, a couple of jerseys and jackets in XL, lots of gloves. I got some MucOff and a set of the Moon copy lights.
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Bathgate has more stock left than livingston but sold out of extra large in most jackets no hi vis. Merino left in bathgate well was at 1930. I got my merino as a there was a woman already wearing it that recommended it never heard of it before this afternoon
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Those COB lights that every one is raving about....
I bought them. Lovely, BUT, perhaps I'm being extremely dense....
I can't get lights (neither back nor front) to fit into any of the brackets provided.
Am I the only person with this problem? Or do you have tips to help me?
Posted 7 years ago # -
They're a tight fit, aye.
Try holding down the release lever when you put it in, or rotating the light 90 degrees.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@sallyhinch, there's more than one reason you don't want to look like a Star Trek redshirt...
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How good are the cob style front lights?
I got one of the rear ones yesterday. Hugely impressed with it so far and am tempted to go and get a front one to use as a second/backup light.
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BRIGHT!!
Probably too bright on full, as a safety light it would run down too often to be useful you'd need to charge it every day or two.
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@sallyhinch, there's more than one reason you don't want to look like a Star Trek redshirt...
Anyone want to buy a brand new Merino top, worn once, going cheap?
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there's more than one reason you don't want to look like a Star Trek redshirt...
Anyone want to buy a brand new Merino top, worn once, going cheap?
Minor phaser burns, but should wash out easily enough...
Robert
Posted 7 years ago # -
Damn! Due to meetings didn't get down yesterday. Went down this morning - closed for renovation! (Musselburgh).
Ah well, maybe next year. ☹️Posted 7 years ago # -
Unless I'm very much mistaken, an Aldi redshirt wearer has just arrived to chat with the person next to me.
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Stock in Dunfermline now very low which is quite unusual as it's not the busiest for cycling gear (much to my benefit!). I purchased the 'moon lights' although front one going back as the power button caved in.
However, I also bought the merino beanie cap and merino base layer medium, both of which are too big! Before I take them back for a refund does anyone want them given the lack of stock now?
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That the Dunfermline stores at East End park? Never had much success in there, Duloch had loads of stuff yesterday but reckon that will be getting low!
Posted 7 years ago # -
OOooh. I like my merino cap. Got two headbands too.
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@Frenchy - Thanks! I was being dense!
I popped popped back to Chesser store this afternoon to try and buy a few more items, and nothing I wanted was left! Headed over to Dalry which looks like it started with less and managed to get the last base layer (rejected by all cos was out of the box).
Mountains of gloves and dayglow jackets left at both stores, and limited selection of merino accessories (headbands, skull cap, beanies, but no merino clothing). A couple of the COB lights left at each store mid afternoon, but probably gone by now.
Posted 7 years ago # -
From the instructions for the lights:
Cycling in the dark is inherently dangerous
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Stickman. Yeah, I was annoyed about that too.
Logical conclusion: don't buy these lights, don't cycle in the dark!
Posted 7 years ago # -
Was in Aldi Cowdenbeath yesterday. Still plenty of everything, including XL Jerseys and jackets (can't remember who wanted those upthread...)
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