You have a loud bell and a bright light and a proper-cool helmet :)
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(14574 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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Safety first Ant, safety first.
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WC, Mark works in a bike shop (owns it??) so he's bound to have everything! I lust after a POC helmet but they are mighty pricey!
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Wilmington's Cow powering across the Dick Vet junction last night - resplendent on his beige/mocca/sand Kaffenback.
(Re-reading that, the mind's eye conjures a pretty picture!)
Clearly getting to be a good spotting point, if I leave work at just the right time!
Robert
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(owns it??)
Yep. Fancy a deal on a POC?
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"... powering..."
Not sure I remember that bit of the commute...
TBC, I need to get the new batteries in the Hope Vision 1 and then do a side-by-side comparison with some of the newer lights and see if it still cuts the mustard. Thing is, I know it's still loads better than the majority of other lights you see out there on bikes...
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You'll get smaller and or brighter ones than the hope but if its just for use on the road and your happy with a juice can stuck to your bars its still a good light
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kaputnik pre-work, though it was pre-planned, so probably doesn't count, in much the same way as I'm 100% likely to spot Roibeard post-work.
Copped a load of kaputnik's new rear light which is stonkingly bright. Although I've still got a perfectly working CherryBomb 1/2 watt and Mars 3.0 that I use in conjunction, so there's no justification there at all for new shiny.
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Spotted bakfiets (or Christiania?), with natural wooden front compartment and blue childseat on back, at Warrender Park terrace one afternoon this week. looked v. cool.
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But only briefly,a topic on c..s.
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@baldcyclist I saw it too - must have triggered a "this isn't the forum you are looking for" error :)
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Reverse spot by recombodna, as I rode home up Morningside Road. Perhaps the easiest CCE Spot ever, since in addition to my usual fuzzyfaced ease of ID I was in my staff top which has my name on it in two-inch tall letters.
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Anth, herding the Pino home.
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I think the Pino was herding him home, technically speaking!
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Well one of them seemed to be in control. Not saying which one..
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Bike with trailgator and Hamax seat attached in Harrison Park this afternoon..
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"Well one of them seemed to be in control. Not saying which one.."
Oi!
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Oh no. Now it's hacked his CCE account.
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Spotted a matt black bike at the top of Waverly Steps with two crossbars. The lettering said something like 'On The Road'...
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I thought a very quiet moped coming towards me across the Leamington Lift Bridge, but it was a very upright Dutch bike with a full frontal fairing and a large dynamo light.
Rider was still soaking wet though!
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Sunday, spotted no fewer than four Dutch bikes around Festival Square/Lothian Road. Like these: http://www.dutchie.co.uk/
Yesterday, in Bridge of Allan, as I emerged from my finish control (a newsagent) saw a very low black recumbent passing by: had a dazzlingly bright front light (I presume dynamo powered).
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I certainly wouldn't recommend this behaviour, or condone it, but chapeau to the guy I just saw cycling east along Queen Street on an MTB/hybrid with what looked like a 9 foot aluminium double ladder over his shoulder. Thankfully, no cars nearby but if there were any, I suspect they'd have given him a wide bearth.
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Did he look like this?
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More like the guy on the right, but with the ladder pointing up at the back. Did not look particularly stable...
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Supposedly they are 1950s suburban window cleaners...
http://www.igg.org.uk/gansg/00-app1/trademen.htm
Probably he needs an Xtracycle + Surly Big Dummy, about 1800 quid all in?
Or maybe one of these? A 'skywalker'...
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Cyo front headlight heading down MMW. So I reckoned it was maybe Dave, Tomcat or Kaputnik. Realised it was latter. Was on foot so he was by before my eyes had recovered.
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"Was on foot so he was by before my eyes had recovered."
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=118#post-494
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=746&page=69#post-59188
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2206#post-23256
Etc.
Posted 12 years ago # -
No... I didn't mean it was badly adjusted or anything. B+M have good beam - quite amazing when you consider they are dynamo driven. The Milan velomobile has two... that might be a bit bright.
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I've actually got my light badly adjusted deliberately, it points more down to the ground than it should. This doesn't stop people shouting at me of course (and if it was actually dark, wouldn't be so good to see where I'm going).
However I have a better solution in the works, which is to put a switch on the stem cap so I can run without lights on the NEPN. The standlight will last for most of the distance, perhaps topped up somewhere near 5ways.
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Upright cycle with huge old-fashioned-moped-style fairing (pretty to face level). Seemed to be home made. South end of Mayfield Road.
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