So, Ive gone and got myself a couple of new toys to play with. With doing more and more dark rides, I decided to up the lighting game and bought a diablo and tracer light. Neither of which I really need, but hey, why the hell not.
The tracer is to complement the see.sense rear, which having recently died a death is being replaced under warranty. I really didn’t want to be stuck with the cateye rapid x should things die again. Although it’s a good light, it isn’t the most powerful light.
The diablo will mostly be used mounted on the helmet to complement the Volt 800. Not on road, but definitely down the cycle paths. The diablo is certainly a beautiful piece of engineering, light and yet solid with its solid metal construction. Only issue is a short battery life on full blast. I don’t envisage running it on full much, if ever. So one of the lower power settings should do just fine,with occasional blasts of 1500 lumens.
This year, I’m planning to ride at least 2018 with my strava plan being set to 2500, which works out to 50 miles a week. But already the plans have been scuppered by the storm, and I’ve only got 19 miles down. Hopefully I’ll get a couple of 20 milers done before Monday. If not, it’ll be added onto next week’s totals. So long as I get more than 2018 miles or more this year I’ll be happy.
I tend to wimp out for heavy winds,rain and old I can deal with, but winds are my limit. With gusts approach 40mph and more, it would be stupidity on my part to ride, especially since most of the routes I ride this would equate into a side wind for most of it,and that dos’nt make good conditions to ride in.