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Geek Gear (GPS/Comps/Lights/etc.)
Bike Route Toaster
Very useful:
http://www.bikeroutetoaster.com/
Turn on OSM (Open Street Map) and cycle/walk auto routing (in the right sidebar) and the cycle layer (right button on the map).
Exposure Lights AAA Service
While we're on the topic of lights, I too have a good news story - this time about Exposure Lights. My smart charger decided to be smart no more and died in the arse. I rang Exposure Lights tonight in the UK and 1% of their chargers appear to be faulty. They have sent me a replacement express post. Service was second to none....and I can't recommend these lights highly enough. No cables, no external battery and as bright as hell. And they've just released a 4 LED light...as if the the 3 LED wasn't bright enough???
Anyway, Exposure Lights get a big tick from me.
Cheers, Mick
Big ups to Ayups
Gday Crew,
After much fiddling, may set of ayups(over a year old)
Battery leads and/or connections were becoming a bit temperamental
Working then cutting out a high speed, off / on, etc you get the idea
Rang and spoke to Ayup, "yeah mate send them up, we'll have a look at them"
Sent them to Ayup, after a week (a week ago), rang and finally got a answer
They had received them and were going to have a look, THEN
Today I received an email with the following:
Take a punt on MagicShine?
Someone gonna take a punt on this set of lights and tell us if they are carp or not?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25149
Single SSC P7 with 4x18650 li-ion batteries. They quote 3hr burn time on full power (allegedly 900lm). Those numbers might be a bit optimistic but at this price it's worth a punt for someone surely? 
Motionbased Elevation inaccuracy
Dirtworks 100km 2950m elevation gain??? On the day my Garmin gave an elevation gain of under 2000 m (Polar 710 reading 1815m). Have a look at http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8150081
Anybody else experience these huge anomalies with motionbased?
New Bike Computer
I lost my bike computer over the weekend 
I really should know better than opening this can of worms, but can anyone recommend one that isn't likely to ping off my bike when I huck a jump? In particular features I am looking for: wireless, heart rate monitor, informative display, good resistance to cross talk and interference, water resistant and all of the usual cycle functions (cadence not required).
The Edge looks great but is quite pricey and looks as if it could bounce around a lot unless you weld it on.
Is it me, or are helmet cams a waste of money?
Maybe I'm just old and own a Rohloff Speedhub, but I was thinking of buying a helmet cam recently then realised this might not be such a good idea for the following reasons..
There's a lot of Youtube stuff shot by people with helmet cams. Well, how pointless. Either:
the riders are moving quickly which makes the camera jiggle all over the place and it looks like the cam has been gaffa taped to Skippy's ears, or
7000lm light anyone?
This is rather amusing... it's an 100W LED which is actually a grid of 1W LEDs. These are designed for street lighting, but... meh... this guy put one on his bike:
There's loads of gumf on this here:
http://tesladownunder.com/LEDs.htm#100%20W%20LED
For amusement, here's the thing compared with the dude's car headlights on main beam (100W each he says), note the LED on the right is many times brighter:
