Just about getting dark early enough to warrant taking the lights out of an evening.

One Trout Lumen Liberator going into its second season with a smudgepack in a karrimor phone pouch bought on cheap from the sales and zip-tied under the stem. Nice and tidy. Awesome light.
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Isnt it great when your bike is just spot on. Had an annoying click from BB area for the last few months. Having refitted crank arms and tightened chain ring bolts, and checked dropouts/QR, finally fixed it by removing BB, cleaning and refitting (UN72, still got 2 spares on the shelf. Will they ever be used?) . All running so nicely now it’s worth extra grins.

And there’s more clearance for those 2,4RRs than it looks. But not much more 🙂
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Erm, one of these…

Soon to be complimented by one of these…

troutie liberator for me, season three

The heavy weight weight (4000+ lumens):

The light weight (700 lumens):

The helmet light (1800 lumens):

Not that they’ll get used any time soon. My 24hr season is over…

Well I did ride it for about 5 minutes with them all on 😈
approx 10000 lumens

troutie, you need one of these:

and one of these:

http://www.paulcomp.com/ginolightmount.html

Stoner: RRs on Malvern gravel? Not planning on keeping those front teeth then?

forget the riots etc. That is the most depressing thread title 🙁

winter? it’s not even autumn yet..

And don’t forget us STWers south of the equator!

Stoner: RRs on Malvern gravel? Not planning on keeping those front teeth then?

a wumf yumf talkinf abouf?

PM me burnside, how’s the family doing?

That is the most depressing thread title

Sorry about that, but Ive been looking forward to darker evenings. Around the Malverns the only safe time to ride is after dark. Then the hills are your oyster. In daylight: too many grumpy f***kers. Met one tonight at 7:30ish.

Yep starting to take a light out now, for the end of the rides, or to be able to extend ride past 9pm. This years setup, though undecided on which to use bar/head – will experiment.
A Trout Mini, a Smudge XM-L unit & a P7 (normal) torch for the backpack as backup/loaner unit.

Lights 2011 by z1ppy2, on Flickr

The Trout Mini lovely and small, I Popped the AAA batteries into the photo to show it’s minimal size [mboy was suprised how small the unit is in ‘real life’]. Though the Mini gives a great flood, where as the XML is very focused (dread hot spot, it’s awful having so much light…boo hoo).

I need a new driver for my homemade setup for last year

Is blackcat still about and has he made one that isn’t affeced by current direction yet?

One of these home modded Lumi HID’s with LED’s on the bars (about 1200lumens)

P1000271 by eastham_david, on Flickr

P1000269 by eastham_david, on Flickr

P1000270 by eastham_david, on Flickr

and one of these Exposure Diablos (900 lumens)

on one of these

for ‘me ed’

Oh and one of these on the bars for Commuting with a glow ring

Completed light by eastham_david, on Flickr

Lights stay on the bike all year round. even the midsummer rides need a bit when you don’t start till 8pm.

Mk1 Hope Vision 2LEDs on the bars and a DX simple thing on my head. I love the Hopes and the customer service is second-to-none to keep them going when they’ve goe wrong. Buti really wouldn’t mind if they got trashed so I could justify an upgrade….

Cree mc-e torch (emergency backup / lending torch, at bottom) , Cree xm-l torch (top).

I use them helmet mounted with velcro, works great. Tons of light, all in one convenience, plus the cost was not much. I use the xml mainly on medium, with high on the downhills, which lasts for more than 2 hours. Switching battery over is very quick, and the batteries are dirt cheap, so I can easily do longer rides too.

forget the riots etc. That is the most depressing thread title

got to agree, tho I’d already decided that I’d be taking the proper lights on this weeks nightride, didn’t class it as the onset of winter tho 😯

BTW Hope 4 + a helmet mounted joystick 🙂

Twin cans are the way to go! On and off in seconds and loadsa’ lumens.

Look mahoosive in the piccie though…..not as bad in the flesh. Honest!

just dug this lot out from the back of the shed as its now getting dark on the morning commute

bunch of lights by robertjohnkay, on Flickr
xml t6 torch for the bars
twin xpg helmet lights
modded dinotte with tripple xpg and black cat driver
old p7 bastid
single xpg helmet light

xpg helmet light by robertjohnkay, on Flickr
helmet lights monted with velcro

None of that talk until the summers over 😈

It should be illegal.

i only have one of these 😳 at present cannot use it (as i’m waiting for a now mount to fit my new bike’s handlebar) it does the job though 🙂

Hope vision 4 on the bars, and a hope vision 2 on the bonce 😛

cree torch (300 Lume)zip tied to helmet.

The new Troutlight. 2800 Lumens 8)

dont think i’ll need much else!

Troute Liberator on the bars (in bling Gold). Cateye Double Shot Pro on the helmet. Cool set up but looking for a Troute price list for new range of helmet lights 😎

Another Gold Liberator (now with flesh wounds after stupid off at the 24:12) and occasionally a Hope HiD on the lid. Mrs Ming is making noises about a new light so if the new “spider eyes” reaches production or maybe a Liberator will be in her Xmas stocking.