Poor lights but guided by the moon!!
flybywire
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Currently 2 bar mounted lights fitted on the CX bike that I commute 14miles each way. .
Main light is an excellent Niterider Minewt x 2 & backup underbars is an electron 7led which is ok performance . :idea:
Last night the NR failed with a faulty connection (tried contact spray b4 to battery & was ok for several days) now appears defective lead and no output.
Therefore my mainly Kennet towpath route approx 10miles was sketchy in places but surprisingly ok with the bright moon but only the electron giving candle output on low batteries .. although took some hairy deviations at speed!
I think that with moon as it was really helped - any one else have strange intervention on their commute yesterday evening?
ps I'm going to lbs to get NR checked soon.. fortunately have another standard minewt headlamp as other backup.
Main light is an excellent Niterider Minewt x 2 & backup underbars is an electron 7led which is ok performance . :idea:
Last night the NR failed with a faulty connection (tried contact spray b4 to battery & was ok for several days) now appears defective lead and no output.
Therefore my mainly Kennet towpath route approx 10miles was sketchy in places but surprisingly ok with the bright moon but only the electron giving candle output on low batteries .. although took some hairy deviations at speed!
I think that with moon as it was really helped - any one else have strange intervention on their commute yesterday evening?
ps I'm going to lbs to get NR checked soon.. fortunately have another standard minewt headlamp as other backup.
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I had a moonlit 20 mile ride once. If it wasn't for needing to be visible to other road users i would have turned my light off. It was lovely.
I've navigated by the moon a few times as well. Lost track of where i was going thanks to roadworks, didn't have a map, but i knew i was heading in roughly the right direction. So as long as i kept the moon in the same position, i was still going the right way. It worked, spot-on
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I had exactly the same problem with a Minewt X2 about 10 days ago. It left me with a mini LED emergency light and 10 miles to go. Lead to some interesting and very hairy route choices in order to stay off as many roads as poss.pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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Yeah - Almost daylight but with long shadows.. :shock: great fun though!
Good accounts of "illuminated" rides .. last one I had was about 5years ago at Swinley Forest night ride .. could have turned the lights off at 10pm! strange 8)
Funnily enough wayward turns were on a "diversion" off the towpath at near Padworth. (there are major repairs to a lock at the moment - 800metre stretch closed - although no signs up saying how long expected out of use).
Also on the road (I'm highly visible anyway with flashing armbands, reflectives etc) took several bends very wide where on coming vehicles drive with main beam :x - can't see edge of a-road with basic back-up light & too much speed with a trailing wind!
cx along the verge for several meters..
Didn't get to lbs but sounds like maybe a common problem - I'll use the other headlamp and take in X2 in the week.
Great light the Minewt, it's power to weight is amazing.QUESTION - When the x2 is sorted need another battery.. The battery that's for standard MINEWT & x2 is £120! (light set cost £110 new). They also do a USB battery (£30) which is same output but different connector to headlamp - Anyone now whether usb battery connector can be modified to operate with ether headlamp (non-usb type) :?: I'm thinking helmet mount0
