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First Night ride
Ok well i purchased a nitelight series 2 yesterday and was keen to test it out as I had never rode at night before unfortunately I did not have time so looked like today was the day. Loaded the car and headed up to Terrey Hills and rode Perimeter and Cowan with a little bit of the single track on Perimeter thrown in. All I have to say is man its a different experience riding trails at night, especially by myself but thoroughly enjoyed and look forward to doing more night rides and spending my time with all those noises in the bushes and the darkness that surrounds you.
Oh yeah the lights worked great very happy with them good clarity and spread of light not that I have anything to compare them against also the track was in good condition only 2 wet patches, 1 at the start which can quite easily be jumped the other well your gonna get wet feet from the splashing from riding through water. Anyway I thought I would share this first little night adventure with many more to follow.
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the lights & the set up u went for , on the bars or helmet ?
I wanna get some of those Nitelights aswell, Can you keep it updated with any problem or good things youve noticed.
Are the lights you are discussing these:
http://www.cellbikes.com.au/Nitelight-900-Lumens...
if so... they look terribly similar to MagicShine:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25149
Which look OK, discussed here:
http://nobmob.com/node/9475
Well my light has been great....... up until today. it finally died. The battery has finally packedup and it keeps shutting off after a minute or so.
I will try and give it a recharge to see what happens but i have noticed that the life of the battery has been getting less over time.
The Nitelights on Cell look exactly the same as the ones I got from Dealextreme. The only difference looks like the charger is fitted with a standard aussie pin set up. The ones from DE need to be plugged into an adaptor to fit aussie GPO's. If you have travelled o/s you would probably already have one but if not they are about $10-20. The other difference is the price. $200 on special from Cell, $160 on ebay, $80 US from DE. Even with the aussie $ under 90c US it is still heaps cheaper
There was some fluff in a local magazine write-up on the locally distributed version of these lights that the charger as bought from local sources was Oz-standards compliant and was therefore less likely to be a fire risk.
Whether this means any more than it has the Australian 240V pin configuration is anyone's guess.
Geeze... everyone is in on the re-branding act. Here's the Route 7 version:
http://www.torpedo7.com.au/products/R7LI4N0LI
I was at the 8hr Enduro & the guys advertising his lights say we should charge these lights in a metal tin due to overcharging & risk of fire
I have been running ayup's for about 2 year's now
may not be the brightest but mine have never failed
me. And they never run hot, no charger problems either.
True... Li-po batteries are somewhat volatile and you should certainly not put your charger on and pop down the pub for a beer!
I met a guy through work once who had some kind of glass-fibre looking bag that was supposed to be fire/explosion proof they have to place charging li-po batteries in at events. Here's a nice vid. from someone selling that kind of thing:
http://youtu.be/mw8jb1KmAG8
Still in love with Klites http://www.cncdelite.com/
MS brightness with ay-up reliability.
Aussie made.
Back up service second to none.