"stephen pridgeon" <
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> "Gary" <
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> > I have a very bright light which cost £35 GBP. Lasts for 300 hours apparently?

> >
> > Here is the lnk:
http://www.cateye.com/detail_mod02.php?products_id=93
> >
> > To test I shone it into an open garage from roughly 100 feet - lit up
the
> > entire room very well. I have also sat in our fiat and had my
girlfriend
> > shine at me from a similar distance - very bright, similar to a single
car
> > headlight.
> >
> > It also has a bluish tint which makes it seem brighter,
> >
> > Gary.
>
> I'm glad that you have found a light you like, but you should be warned...
>
> This is how it always starts. The thrill of "just looking", comparing models. The sense of power
> as you choose one, and pay money to make it all yours. The energy that the new ones have - they
> are just so bright, so new, everything does what it should do. Experimentation - staying up late
> just to play with it, "walking the dog" just to have an excuse to play with it's buttons, getting
> other people to join in, making favourable comparisons. Telling it that it's the best your've ever
> had. Boasting to your mates.
>
> Then it all goes slowly wrong. Maybe you start to take it for granted, and it slips off its
> bracket. You don't do anything to keep the first feelings alive, it's as if the batteries are
> going flat. You start looking at others, with bigger headlights, brighter ones, smaller, neater,
> perkier ones. Or perhaps you have tasted forbidden fruit and you want more that it can give. You
> start looking at the lumicycle website late at night, pay for a Stadium in cash so no one will
> find the credit card slips. You buy a spacebar and, as you fasten your old light to it, you tell
> it that it really will enjoy this, you convince yourself that it's all for their benefit, but of
> course you know it's just for your unsatisfied gratification.
>
> Finally it's cast off, left on the second bike, you stop removing it when you lock up - secretly
> hoping it will get stolen. The final ignominity of being used as a light sabre by four year olds
> awaits. You never notice, you are too busy being dazzled by the sexy 20Watt twins who have just
> allowed you to tie them to your bars.
>
> You should be ashamed of yourself.
>
> Regards SteveP
Exactly. I dived straight in and got lumicycles, just discovered my neighbour had a set already ...
I think the Halide is overkill at £299.99, but my birthday is only a few months away - maybe i'll
have changed my mind by then, doubt it though
I'm also wondering if my lamps have 'burnt' in too much? I'm sure they were brighter when the lamps
were new ...
I must admit to going for cycles late at night with no real reason. Is admitting the problem to
yourself the first stage of recovery?