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Bike lighting reviews

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  • Started 13 years ago by Arellcat
  • Latest reply from kaputnik

  1. Arellcat
    Moderator

    By way of ligfiets.net I've found a Dutch website with a lot of commentary on bicycle accessories, and by all accounts the author is trying to offer genuine information and testing which the magazines apparently don't. A starter for ten is on lighting, specialising in dynohubs and beam shapes (at some length!):

    http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/tests/verlichting/index_en.html

    Carry on and you find a whole index of review subjects for saddles and pumps and multi-tools and tyre levers and all kinds of things.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Different!

    "
    that a separate hose for a frame pump is not a new idea. I remember having seen these in the late 1970s, and you can see an example in an episode of 'Bottom' (Rick Mayall & Adrian Edmondson) from ca. 1990...

    "

    http://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/tests/pompen/index_en.html#Lezyne_road_drive_m

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. wee folding bike
    Member

    Pumps with a wee hose were normal for me until the early '80s. I had both types as my Puch and my mum's Raleigh 20 used Schraders but the Claud Butler had Prestas.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I have 3 different Lezyne pumps that use the hose (a small road drive for the road bike, a folding minature track pump for the tourer and the steel floor drive track pump) and will never go back to any other sort of pump. Far superior (in my humblest of opinions) to the crimp-on ones.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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