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maby when i have 100 bucks laying around i might order some and put it
on my 19" :p

they sound pretty bright though.

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I went on a mountain bike night ride with some of the local unicyclists,
and I think Geoff (famed designer of the Telford unicycle frame) had
one of these light sets. It was practically like riding in the
daylight, really. I have a crappy handlebar mounted headlight, so I
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manon1wheel said:

maby when i have 100 bucks laying around i might order some and put it
on my 19" :p

they sound pretty bright though.

maybe you can order 1/10th of them for that price 🙂

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A Norwegian friend showed me this light system quite some time ago.

I couldn't believe it...

Truly amazing lights.

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Borgschulze said:

A Norwegian friend showed me this light system quite some time ago.

I couldn't believe it...

Truly amazing lights.

I actually remember that, it got quite bright here in London that
night!

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sometimes its fun to ride with no lights. and see how long you can
survive.:p

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Brian MacKenzie said:

I just saw the brightest, coolest lights I have seen in my whole life.

The downside is they are $1000

For those coming to the 24hr in May, you will be able to see mine first
hand 😄

You must be selling a lot of Inner Balance DVD's.😄 Good for you.

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bennet said:

sometimes its fun to ride with no lights. and see how long you can
survive.:p

I know i do and i can go all night at speeds that would scare bike
riding people.

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I'd be slightly worried about spending that much on lupine, they're
*very* expensive for what you get, and have a poor reputation over here
for reliability, warranty service, and how expensive spares are when
anything gets broken.

If you buy the LEDs and driver yourself, you can build up a triple LED
yourself for about £100/$200 that is approximately HID brightness,
which is way more than enough light to ride with.

If you're buying built up lights:

On the cheap, for £10/$20 you can get something that is just about
bright enough to ride with and runs off two rechargeable AAs, and just
straps onto your helmet http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4238
I've got one of these and it is *very* convenient, way more convenient
than having the separate battery and wire thing that my old triple led
light used to have. If you need more light, buy two, they only weigh
about 150g including batteries, so they're fine to run on a helmet.

If you want to spend lots of money - these are jolly bright (approx HID
brightness) and supposed to be reliable (and $400)
<http://store.dinottelighting.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=dinotte&StoreType=BtoC&Count1=245540797&Count2=162681221&ProductID=19&Target=products.asp>

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One on one said:

You must be selling a lot of Inner Balance DVD's.😄 Good for you.

i'm not selling any of them, i had to go get a job

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joemarshall said:

I'd be slightly worried about spending that much on lupine, they're
*very* expensive for what you get, and have a poor reputation over here
for reliability, warranty service, and how expensive spares are when
anything gets broken.

Joe

Thanks for the tip, I'll monitor the one that just got bought by
someone, see how it holds out for him...all I know is that I'm riding
super bright lights from now on, I'm sick of having crappy ones

(and that's $1000 'retail' 😄 )

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http://www.mtbr.com/2008lights/dual_trail_compare.html is a good site to
see how bright things are relative to each other.

http://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/category/lights-shootout/ has descriptions
of the lights used.

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^^^^^
Thanks, very useful.

I've been wanting to get a stronger light for a while but have been
puting it off because I wasn't sure how bright I needed it to bee,
didn't want to spend more than I needed or not enough. (I have a 10
watt halogen Knighthawk, my main prob is it's too focused in one spot).

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yunisyko said:

it's all about balls. i lose them often and then get em back.

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Just letting people know I've just bought one of those cree torches from
dealextreme (as linked to by Joe) and I'm very impressed. It's really
nicely made, with an aluminium modular body threaded together with
rubber o-rings in all the joints. It's very bright - not quite as
bright as my 10W halogen I usually use for unicycling, but not far off.
It's quite a narrow focussed beam, so not that good for peripheral
vision, but cuts through mist quite well. I don't think the blueish
light from an LED is as easy to see by as the more yellow halogen
light, but as a second light it's superb. I'm tempted to buy another
one and mount the two heads together on a helmet mount so I can run
them off my 6V bike battery (they're 3V torches). I reckon two of them
together would make a pretty good riding/racing light - and if I leave
my halogen on the helmet as well it'll be close to a HID.

It was posted from Hong Kong and took about a week to arrive in the UK,
but no hidden charges (all I paid was the US$20-odd listed on their
site, which at today's favourable exchange rate was only just over
£10).

Rob

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