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  • The dark nights are drawing in……bike lights for trails needed!
  • Ferris-Beuller
    Free Member

    Pretty much as the title reads…..unfortunately i’m not made of money so not really wanting to spend £300 on some!

    Any good stuff knocking around this year? Any suggestions? Any to stay away from?

    Ta!

    Sandwich
    Full Member
    Ferris-Beuller
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    Top man! Plenty of reading material there.

    Yak
    Full Member

    Summary of all that:

    Buy a solarstorm x2. Throw the battery away. Source quality cells, case, cabling and build a whizzy run-all-night system. Announce total cost of 2p 😉

    DezB
    Free Member

    Why you’d throw the batteries away, I do not know.

    No problem with these

    john_drummer
    Free Member

    that’s a good price DezB

    I bought a nice bright LED light about 18 months ago for £50 – here – and I thought that was cheap. but < £20 ? that’s crazy

    DezB
    Free Member

    Have recommended them to a few people at work and no-one’s had any problems.

    dooosuk
    Free Member

    Just don’t order from lightmalls.com

    3 days since order and I’m still waiting for it to be packaged!

    Processing-Waiting to be packed

    Yak
    Full Member

    You’ve found a good one then.

    After mine failed, I didn’t go the self-build route. I bought a ready-made replacement pack from torchy. V good so far.

    weeksy
    Full Member

    Thanks DezB, I’ve added to my favourites for next months purchase 🙂

    Ferris-Beuller
    Free Member

    Yak, a correct summary if ever there was one! I’m no further on…..and even more confused….whats all this talk of people making there own?!? Have these people not got lives to get on with? Oh hang on, this is STW afterall!! 🙂

    john_drummer
    Free Member

    making your own was a good cut-price option when the only decent lights with long (i.e. over 2 hours) run time cost over £150. Then the Cateye Stadium – the first HID system – arrived at over £300; and some systems started approaching the price of a mid range hardtail

    Now you can get LED lights that are way brighter than the brightest halogen systems available say 10 years ago, with 3+ hour run time, for under £50, it’s not such a sensible option

    boxelder
    Full Member

    Fun though, for some. Why cook when McD’s do Drive thru?

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    Two solar storms here, one on the bars one on the lid. My house hasn’t burnt down yet…

    rockhopper70
    Full Member

    I didn’t go down the cheap cheap route when I bought a light, but I did buy an “expensive” battery from mtbbatteries to match up to my magicshine head unit. In stw terms, it was very expensive at £75ish. I just like the reassurance that the battery should be reliable and I have back-up should anything go wrong.
    If I was looking now, that moon light from Merlin looks a good offer and I’d use mtbbatteries again for their head light.
    Lights can be had much cheaper but if you are budgeting for £300 the world is nearly your oyster.
    But you can save a bundle building up your own system, if you have the inclination to read 10 pages of thread! 🙄

    Edit….you aren’t wanting to spend £300!

    hartcliffeburner
    Full Member

    MTB Batteries job that costs about £120, I use it off-road and for commuting great bit of kit.

    scc999
    Full Member

    If you’re put off by the idea of buying a light from China and then a battery pack, try here:

    http://www.candb-seen.co.uk/

    Cheers,

    Si

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