Thanks...Greg.

Time to get the tape measure out to see if a 1 metre cable is long enough.

ctznsmith wrote:Thanks...Greg.

Time to get the tape measure out to see if a 1 metre cable is long enough.

I've the Redeye Long on my large Fargo and it reaches. Cable is easy enough to split and extend if you need to.

mines fits down to the seat stay on my large TD-1

i have also run a rear red eye directly off the piggyback battery at the rear ofthe pannier rack on my commuter.......without charging !

a triple cell piggyback lasts all winter @ 2 hours a day .....

I think I'd find a rear light with a cable a pain in the arse. The light I'm running at the moment has managed weeks of use on its two triple A batteries. I just throw them in a tester every now and again to work out if I should replace them.

Richard G wrote:I think I'd find a rear light with a cable a pain in the arse. The light I'm running at the moment has managed weeks of use on its two triple A batteries. I just throw them in a tester every now and again to work out if I should replace them.

With a two hour dark commute three times a week each way over the next few months batteries make zero sense for my needs. Pointless landfill that I can avoid.

What's wrong with rechargeables? It's technically what you're using anyway... just you can't remove them from the packaging.

Richard G wrote:What's wrong with rechargeables? It's technically what you're using anyway... just you can't remove them from the packaging.

You still have to remove them to charge them and that takes time. With my Revo and hub I just don't have to think about my lights at all. I have some cheapos in case they fail or get pinched but they haven't ever been taken out of my frame bag.

To the question about lights and charging. I rode 120 miles between 7pm and 4.30 am a few weeks ago. Lights on the whole time and my smartphone navigating me with Google maps and Strava running. All from the sp8 and cycle2charge.

Fair enough, I guess it's just part of my routine after a ride. Clean up the bike, clean and check the batteries and lights.

Still not a fan of the idea of cables, but I can see why people might go that way with a dynamo hub.

Richard G wrote:Fair enough, I guess it's just part of my routine after a ride. Clean up the bike, clean and check the batteries and lights.

Still not a fan of the idea of cables, but I can see why people might go that way with a dynamo hub.

I have a frame bag on all the time and under the TT cable runs. The front-rear cable is essentially invisible.

My routine after a ride is to dump the bike against the tool cabinet and go an get a cuppa. If I go back in a couple of hours later the rear lights is still just about glimmering.

GregMay wrote:Sinewave charger for Revo is planned for TD duties.

Not sure how you're planning to wire it in, but if you want a female Exposure connector to solder on the end, I have a bag of 30 less the handful I posted out to people on here...

I have become a recent dynamo light user with the Exposure combo, Revo light and SP 9mm qr hub rebranded.
A buddy told me about his back-up system so I tried it, and its vaguely exciting. I did a blog post on it here.
I call it the PMD, poor mans Diablo. Cheap as chips.
http://jeffsbike.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10 ... iablo.html

I have had one very gnarly single track session with it where it was too technical to get much of a glimmer out of the Revo and it was mint. Not as wide a beam as the Ayups, but still 100% usable for bikepacking levels.
Also, on a road ride last friday, the PMD fell off my bar mount and went skittering down the road at 50kmh. No injury to it so they are pretty robust too! Next time I will keep it strapped to my bonce.

I've been using 18650 torches as head lights for a while now. Not quite enough kick for full on downhill, but fine for normal riding duties.

atk wrote:

GregMay wrote:Sinewave charger for Revo is planned for TD duties.

Not sure how you're planning to wire it in, but if you want a female Exposure connector to solder on the end, I have a bag of 30 less the handful I posted out to people on here...

Pop one in your bag for Saturday, I'll buy you a coffee :)

Will do!

Just following up on Ultrafire as this is new to me and see they have a new item AK009 which is direct usb recharging.

benp1 wrote:I thought I'd responded to this thread but my post never appeared

On road/commuting set up
Front - B&M Ixon Core and Cateye VOlt 300
Rear - RSP Tourlite rack mounted and a fibre flare on an upright on the rack. Plus a Smart R2 usb on my rack pack
Helmet - Lezyne Macro Duo on top and a PDW Radbot 500 on the back. Whole helmet is covered in reflective tape too

Off road
Front - Solarstorm X2
Rear - usually nothing unless I'm going near the road, they maybe a silicon light
Helmet - Sunwayman V20c - will switch helmet if I need a rear light

Came browsing through this thread as I was giving my mate a recommendation. But he's going to end up with something cheap and chinese. I've been quite astounded at how little light he can ride with (though the pace is quite slow too, and it's not technical at all)

My commuting set up hasn't changed, though I sometimes wear a waterproof with LEDs built in if I know it's going to be wet - but mainly so I'm more visible to car drivers, though I've taken off the rear light from my helmet, wasn't getting used at all

My off road set up has though
Front - Nitefighter BT40s
Rear - currently a Radbot 500 on a seat stay. Has survived the gloop so far
Helmet - Exposure Diablo Mk7 with a red eye micro