anybody using retro lights?

You don't know the meaning of the words "rubbish", "bike" and "light" until you ride a 1948 Raleigh with its original Sturmey Archer Dynohub up a hill. It's like having a firefly trapped inside a pie dish.
 
Re: Retro Lights

raveydavey":dpj2cby9 said:
I know the new lights are superb, but for me half of the fun of riding at night is not being able to see as well as you can in the daytime, it puts a whole different perspective on things.

One reason I like the new lights is that on the road sections, cars think I'm a motorbike and dip their lights, stop and give way to me.

More light is good :)
 
I hope to be using my near NOS blt duals. The battery is done and needs to be cut out of the 'water bottle'. it is in it's original box from when the company was still in Nelson, B.C.
 
I vivdly recall using things like this:

http://www.mvvcc.org.uk/features/lamps/pifcofront.htm

and this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pifco-Black-F...temQQimsxq20100114?IMSfp=TL100114019002r23958

Both very poorly fixed to the bike, and prone to bouncing along the road whenever you went over a bump or hole. Hence the cracked glass. They had a (now obscure) battery that was like two D cells (or SP2s in old Ever Ready parlance) with a contact on the front and springy flap contact on the top. In the first lamp the contact was made by screwing down the knob on the top until it touched the springy flap.

The rear light was a natty chrome one with a red dome on it, that I successfully converted to work as a brake light on my Esquire, to surprising acclaim, although I was about 12 at the time. 44 now, before the grandad insults come.

But fundamentally, they were really crap, heavy, and expensive to run.
 
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I've got a mish-mash of 6V and 12V halogens from '98-'99-ish when we did a grouptest for GoFar. Might possibly get around to doing an LED conversion on the Lumicycle cans in time for next winter (but probably won't).
 
Two Anlun T6 rear chrome lights, one Anlun Coyote chrome headlight, and a Anlun dynamo (all eBay)(and some LED frog lights in case of dynamo system failure) on my 3-speed

Both the rear lights and the headlight I have fitted with white 6v 100-degree LED MES bulbs (eBay). They give a brilliant bright light on a total power consumption of 720milliwatts (barely a quarter of the 3watt dynamo's output) - so little dynamo drag results.

A single diode in series and a 10000 microfarad electrolytic capacitor across the lights gives me about 30 seconds of stand-light then they drop to a dim glow that lasts a further minute. I intend soon to wire more capacitors in....
 
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