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Artemisia
Guest
What lights are brighter, LEDs or halogens?
For some reason, I can't find LEDs on sale in France. Only halogens. I
have to get my lights through the UK which seems daft. Is there some
stupid protectionist law in place? I've been following the other
discussion on lights and think I may get that Cateye HL-EL500 so
highly spoken of, for the trike, in addition to / instead of the
dynamo.
Flyzipper uses a 5-LED cluster light by Cateye that I bought at Condor
a few years ago. It has a very long running power on its 5
rechargeable AA batteries, but seems to fade from maximum power when
the batteries are less than fresh (I haven't changed them since last
fall). I'm not overly enchanted with it for night-riding because it
creates a bobbing puddle of light in front of the bike that confuses
my balance, since my eyes follow the light and my bike follows my
eyes, boinky boinky right into the wall... But that might just be me.
And it should be less of a problem on a trike. Apart from that it
strikes me as _vastly_ superior to the halogens available on the
French market, which eat batteries at a most fearful rate and don't
seem any brighter or less boinkier.
EFR
Ile de France
For some reason, I can't find LEDs on sale in France. Only halogens. I
have to get my lights through the UK which seems daft. Is there some
stupid protectionist law in place? I've been following the other
discussion on lights and think I may get that Cateye HL-EL500 so
highly spoken of, for the trike, in addition to / instead of the
dynamo.
Flyzipper uses a 5-LED cluster light by Cateye that I bought at Condor
a few years ago. It has a very long running power on its 5
rechargeable AA batteries, but seems to fade from maximum power when
the batteries are less than fresh (I haven't changed them since last
fall). I'm not overly enchanted with it for night-riding because it
creates a bobbing puddle of light in front of the bike that confuses
my balance, since my eyes follow the light and my bike follows my
eyes, boinky boinky right into the wall... But that might just be me.
And it should be less of a problem on a trike. Apart from that it
strikes me as _vastly_ superior to the halogens available on the
French market, which eat batteries at a most fearful rate and don't
seem any brighter or less boinkier.
EFR
Ile de France