Ride into work for Friday, 8 September
Bit of a slow ride in with my touring bike, which was relatively heavily loaded with lots of cooler weather gear in my panniers to give me choices for the ride tonight. I also loaded up on lights; I have my 10W and 5W SLA powered lights with my 10W Digital Emitter I bought yesterday, plus the vital LED flasher for emergency use. I think I should be fairly visible on the roads tonight...
Distance logged: 12.673km
Time: 34:31
Average speed: 22km/hr
Max speed: 56.4 km/hr
Temperature: 15C, clear
Cumulative distance: 5445.448km
Cumulative cost per km: $0.42
Monthly distance: 164.159km
Monthly cost per km: $-20.25
Distance logged: 12.673km
Time: 34:31
Average speed: 22km/hr
Max speed: 56.4 km/hr
Temperature: 15C, clear
Cumulative distance: 5445.448km
Cumulative cost per km: $0.42
Monthly distance: 164.159km
Monthly cost per km: $-20.25
posted by steve at 9/08/2006 02:06:00 pm
3 Comments:
How do you like the digital emitter?
I generally don't like to bike at dark (poor night vision) so I'm always interested in hearing about other light options. I use a planet bike 1W LED light as a 'be seen' light and it does okay, but it certainly doesn't do much to light the road or path.
I've been looking into getting a wheel with a hub generator, but the really good ones (Schmidt) are spendy. I guess the good thing is that you don't need batteries.
I'm liking it so far, but I've yet to really use it in earnest. The deal closer for me on the Digital Emitter (and the reason I sprung an extra $20 on it over the straight Emitter) was (a) its ability to run at different loads on the battery from 10% through to 100%, and (b) the ability to run off two AA batteries in a pinch instead of needing a full complement of 4 batteries. They also explicitly recommend rechargeable alkaline batteries as the best source.
It's LED based, so it draws way less power. The default lamps with generator hubs are, I believe, HID or similar, so they're not as bright; they need an upgrade to go LED so that's an additional cost.
Since I have 3 bikes, it's easier to swap the lights I have between the bikes than it would be if I used generators... And generator hubs for all three bikes would be horribly expensive!
Glad your feeling better. It's dark here now and I am looking into a better light. I have mainly been using them to be noticed by vehicles, but now, I need to see where I'm going! I dont' have much experience riding in the dark. Summers here have 24 hrs of daylight. We are loosing over a half hour of daylight per week now.
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