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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: For those who believe in electricity
Date: 16 Apr 2025 20:48:28 GMT
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> On 16 Apr 2025 15:43:28 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2025 1:39 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/11/2025 11:29 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> Final report: A friend and I did a two hour ride late Sunday night. The
>>>>> generator and the headlight performed very well, no problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The headlight's mate arrived by mail last night. It will be going on one
>>>>> of the folding bikes.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Has spurred me into spending my light or rather the old (ish) one I use for
>>>> the commute to get fixed the mount will not tighten I had a crash with it
>>>> years ago and it’s never been right since!
>>> BTW, that illustrates a maintenance problem I frequently encounter. 
>>> While I'm on the bike, some problem or other will annoy me, as in "I've 
>>> got to fix that squeak when I get home."
>>> 
>>> But when I park the bike, it naturally doesn't squeak (or whatever) so I 
>>> forget about it until the next time I'm riding the bike.   :-/
>>> 
>>> 
>> Your post plus as it was winter I’ve being using the light on the old
>> school roadie on early starts, and that the remote doesn’t fit naturally to
>> the bars, and certainly nowhere just to hand like the MTB derived commuter,
>> so I’ve been toggling the beam from High to low using the switch on the
>> light, and so have noticed it moving slightly.
>> 
>> Clearly still works in that it’s not going to fall off but it’s tipped into
>> this is really quite annoying from Meh! Such as one of the old rear lights
>> that does occasionally loose connections and go dim, but as rear lights are
>> such a tedious bits of kit I run two on the commute bikes, and that light
>> definitely isn’t worth repairing.
>> 
>> Roger Merriman
> 
> I don't need any lights, but for other maintenance issues, I carry a
> lot of tools and I'm inclined to stop in some shade and fix or try to
> fix whatever is not working right. I also carry a huge amount of tools
> in my truck, including a vice, and what I cannot fix while out on a
> ride is likely to under the wrench before I drive home. I am the
> opposite of a procrastinator. My wife serves that function at our
> home.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman
> 
This will require rather a lot of disassembly, as it’s the cleat and it’s
bolt and the nut it screws into, which is the mostly likely culprit to be
damaged as the bolt threads looked visually fine.

So likely to require rather a lot of dissembling! I’m assuming they would
need to take the inner electronics (likely to be by some margin more
complex than Frank’s lamb) plus batteries out, to then get at the nut from
inside the case.

They started off making kit for divers/cavers then MTBers so durable kit
that can be repaired is very much there thing.

And it’s the new bike that and using it during winter when I needed a light
to see by, that it became apparent that it was getting worse, and the
problem was highlighted.

But it didn’t stop the light working, it still worked fine so certainly
during winter when it’s by far the best tool for the job I was reluctant to
be without it, but since I’m now commuting even early in daylight and
Franks thread reminded me seemed the time to do so, I’d hope to get it back
last next week or so.

Roger Merriman