Ah yeah that’s comforting.
What battery operated lights do you all like? For seeing at night not just being seen. Plz no magneto.
It’s always hard to go wrong with Light & Motion
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I’ve been happy with my Blackburn Dayblazer front+rear. I’ve got the 800 front and 125 rear. The front has enough juice to run at full output for about an hour. I haven’t tried using the back in Japanese Seizure Robots mode, so I’m not sure how long it will run at full output.
The main reason I went with the Blackburn is for the IP67 enclosure, after killing two lights in a season due to water ingress.
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I had terrible luck with Light and Motion, two duds in a row for bar mounted front lights. I switched back to Knog and have been using the same cheap usb rechargable lights for the better part of a decade.
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We have a thread for that:
$5 says the thread is 90% pants chat. Not very …illuminating.
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Blackburn Countdown 1600
I dig the B&M Ixon Core. Not super bright but gets you that nice German beam pattern in a microUSB rechargeable waterproof light
Seconding B&M stuff, Icon IQ premium is heavy but batteries are normal AA rechargeable which you can remove so you can carry more as spares and/or the light won’t die just because the batteries do.
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I rando with one of the 4aa iq premiums as a backup for a cyo premiums. It’s as good as the cyo which makes it awesome for a backup light.
Did we ever figure out if there are usb-c bike lights?
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just use a confusing mass of dongles
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I want a USB-c magneto hub.
It doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to open up a regular micro-usb connected light and graft on a usb-c connector. Bezosland has 5 packs of female connectors + tiny daughterboards, so the fiddly bit of soldering wires to the microscopically tidy connector leads isn’t a problem.
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Swapping pads on some TRP hylex brakes. Everything goes smoothly, but I can get the pistons to retract far enough with a tire lever. When the new pads go in, there’s not enough space for the rotor to fit between them.
Help!
I put the old pads back in, because I think I can get one more race out of them. Now the lever pulls to the bar. How badly have I fucked myself?
Put the new pads in and go ride it around the block and do a bunch of stoppies and skidz.
I can’t get the rotor between the new pads though. Not enough space.
Take the pads out and use a big flat screwdriver to push the pistons back in and then reinstall the pads and then do what I said earlier.
Fixed it.
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