keep your wick trimmed
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tech has moved on, we’re using carbide lamps now
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Non-biblical c-c-c-combo breaker
what’s the preferred bulk dyno wire? seems hard to find the proper stuff on amazon in 22 or 24awg. need like 100ft.
I do well with speaker wire.
Is it cuz you need a really long length for the bullit? Or as has been mentioned earlier chopping cords off DC adapters is pretty perfect for this application.
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Ha ha. Yeah, speaker wire for me too.
We got a big box of free lights that had the leads cut short. Ended up ordering a 65ft roll of 22awg “led wiring” from Uncle Jeff.
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Been a minute since anyone asked about the IQ-XS. Anybody using one of these or have opinions vs. like a Cyo Premium Senso Plus? I want something to replace a dying IQ-X and I’m not going with the same light cuz standlight is not great. Might just get a luxos u, idk.
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i have an XS and really like it/have absolutely no complaints. the few times ive been stuck at night without streetlights its been more than adequate
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I get brake shudder with dynamos on my Merckx. Am I doing something wrong? It’s worse now with the SP vs the Shimano.
Toe my brake pads in? Squats?
I don’t get any buzz on the SP, though. Which is great.
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I’m using one. The beam isn’t as bright as my EDelux but is brighter than my Eyc. It’s good enough that I happily bombed down Page Mill Road in the dark with it. For the price, I have no complaints.
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but what that standlight do?
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No complaints from me but it’s also the only
Modern modern light I’ve owned
seemsfine™
have you seen the standlight on the iq-xl? it hardly counts. also looking at that or the cyo senso plus and the xs sure fits the aesthetic of this bike better
alright, y’know what, i’m bored and i have nothing better to do with my time so why not. TL;DR i was very wrong and the IQ-XS standlight appears to be poop.
Procedure: rode around the block to charge the cap then rode back up my driveway and pointed at a dark fence. Phone photos so it’s auto-exposing and white-balancing and everything, very non-scientific. Tried to get a photo of the full-bright beam as well as the standlight, although the former is much harder than the latter because you have to be moving and my dark fence was right after a sharp turn.
Edelux II moving:
Edelux II Standlight:
IQ-XS moving:
IQ-XS standlight:
note the (very dim) bright patch waaaay up the fence. why is the only illuminated area above where the beam cutoff is???
Just for comparison, Eyc moving:
yeah it’s a shitty picture and it turns out I have the light aimed too low but I didn’t care enough to try again with this light. Note the super-narrow beam on the Eyc. Standlight on the Eyc did not noticeably illuminate the fence so I didn’t bother with a photo.
Weird thing is when viewed off-angle from the front of the bike, the Edelux II and IQ-XS looked semi-similar brightness on the standlight - but the IQ-XS standlight just doesn’t project at all, it’s very diffuse.
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Bad standlights are the “can’t stop, don’t want to” of dadtarck
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we’ve probably done this topic a few times, but how hard would it be to just put a bigger capacitor in a lamp, or in the line headed to the lamp? Is there a lot of control equipment that comes along with it? Are big capacitors sorta explodey under normal cycling conditions?
Friendly acquaintance / illustrator of the old bridgestone catalogs made perfect shirts
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