I submit that on or about Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:08:04 GMT, the person
known to the court as SMS <[email hidden]> made a statement
(<[email hidden]> in Your Honour's bundle) to
the following effect:
Quoted message said:Just one correction, it's not "my" figure, it's the figure you get by
adding up the prices at the retailer's web site. It's not like these
prices came out of thin air!
Except that the retailer's price includes supply of a wheel,. and the
most expensive lights you could find. I priced a SON and two
headlights for much less, from Peter White Cycles. But as ever you
miss the point: your absurd fantasy that only a Rolls-Royce system is
usable at all is just that: absurd. As you've been told many times.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:The "Wal-Mart level" system that Jasper Janssen referred to at the start of
this exchange seems to me to be of much lower quality than the Nexus/Lumotec
system that I now have and that you upgraded from. If the millions of Dutch
cyclists you refer to are on well paved, well lit cycle paths then it
probably is adequate, but I would guess that a flashlight duct-taped to the
handlebars would work at least as well in those conditions.
Quoted message said:This is indeed the key point. Guy makes comments about the quality of
the moonlight, even though he is well aware of the actual differences
between the Netherlands and most other areas.
I ride in the UK. We have dark, twisty roads, and I use dynamo
lights. You are apparently trying to pretend that the USA is in some
way "special" in order to justify your prejudice against dynamos.
Dynamo lights work for Frank, for me in the UK, for many people on
many continents. You just happen not to like them.
Quoted message said:It's either amusing or annoying when people that know the facts,
intentionally mangle them, trying to prove something that everyone else
already knows isn't so. No one has any doubt that Guy has checked the
prices at "http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/Schmidt-Lumotec.asp" and
knows that everything that I wrote was accurate.
For some values of accurate.
Schmidt SON28 hub, black, 32 hole only $ 245.5
Lumotec Standard lamp, 2.4 watt bulb: $ 41.00
Lumotec Standard lamp, 3 watt bulb: $ 43.00
DToplight Plus, $ 45.75
Total $375.25.
Quoted message said:Just as no one doesn't
comprehend the differences between the Netherlands, and most other
places, when it comes to the cycling infrastructure.
Straw man. I ride in the UK, using dynamo lights. The comment about
the Netherlands was a throwaway: there are millions of cyclists around
the world using those "inadequate" dynamo systems, often the very
cheapest sort.
Quoted message said:There probably are no statistics that are detailed enough to be useful.
However, when cycling with very good lights, I find that vehicles are
more likely to see me than in the daytime. One reason is that they
probably cannot distinguish between my bicycle and a motorcycle, so they
don't assume a slow speed vehicle is approaching them.
And of course no driver has ever hit a motorcycle in broad daylight
with a halogen headlight switched on and the rider dressed from head
to foot in high-visibility clothing. Oh, wait...
My experience is that the thing that makes the difference between
being seen and not being seen is mainly road position. This applies
at night probably more than during the day.
I have nothing against people who decide to use very bright lights,
I've just never found them to be necessary. I find a dynamo system to
be easily good enough (and yes, I freely admit I rarely exceed 30mph
on a bike at night), and they are very dependable, always there. Since
all my bikes are used for commuting at least some of the time, that is
very high on my list of criteria for a good system.
Guy
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