Night/Evening Spin tomorrow

ROK ON

Anyone up for a spin tomorrow evening, say leave Dundrum 6 or 6.30. 2.5 to 3 hours.

I now have two fenix lights, so I want to see what they are like in pitch darkness.

Lumen

Might be up for this, as my Ixon arrived today.

Coincidentally my Fenix has started sulking in some sort of perpetual low power mode.

Sunday Spins

Any chance you guys could post a pic of the light these give out tonight

blorg

I am a possibility if the weather is not raining.

barrabus

Also a possibility ...

ROK ON

Grand so. Tomorrow is supposed to be ok weather wise (but possibly windy).

I will bump tomorrow to see who is in.

Lumen

Sunday Spins wrote: »

Any chance you guys could post a pic of the light these give out tonight

Can't do proper outdoor shots because the Fenix is still sulking (possibly in Moon mode, not sure), but here are some beam shots at 6ft from my kitchen wall.

What's possibly not obvious from the pics (because the floods don't really show up at all) is that the Fenix has a small bright spot and a large, round flood area, whereas the Ixon's spot is much larger and rectangular, with a very asymmetrical flood pattern - well defined and small in the upper hemisphere, and larger and more diffuse in the lower hemisphere.

Will give some subjective comparisons from actual on-road use after tomorrow night (I'm definitely up for this now).

tomc

....another possible desciple!

blorg

Bear in mind with any beam shots you really have to manually set the camera to the same exposure etc. or it will be pretty meaninless in the brightness stakes (guy who did the review of the Hope lights did this very well.)

Lumen

blorg wrote: »

Bear in mind with any beam shots you really have to manually set the camera to the same exposure etc. or it will be pretty meaninless in the brightness stakes (guy who did the review of the Hope lights did this very well.)

FWIW Both pics above were F1.8, 1/200, ISO 1600 (originals here).

But given that the TK11 is in perpetual low-output mode*, I wasn't trying to compare brightness, just spot shape.

* Yes, I have an incredible ability to break stuff.

ROK ON

Lumen wrote: »

Can't do proper outdoor shots because the Fenix is still sulking (possibly in Moon mode, not sure), but here are some beam shots at 6ft from my kitchen wall.

Will give some subjective comparisons from actual on-road use after tomorrow night (I'm definitely up for this now).

The Ixon beam looks sort of like a batman image.

blorg

To be honest the weather is not looking the greatest...

ROK ON

blorg wrote: »

To be honest the weather is not looking the greatest...

I tend to agree, but I will have Caroline update the wimplist nonetheless.

Lumen

blorg wrote: »

To be honest the weather is not looking the greatest...

I have complete faith in ROK ON's forecasting abilities. Even as I type this the sun is coming out.

I'm doing it, even if solo.

ROK ON

@Lumen. I am glad that you have faith, in that I abhor the idea of forecasting. It is a plainly stupid idea.

That said, I wont allow you to do this alone. It is always great fun listening to you complain about how cold wet and miserable you are.:D

blorg

I can do rain and I can do dark but past miserable experience suggests that putting the two together is not generally a good idea... especially up the mountains. Honestly there are enough dry evenings in a winter that I don't see the point in killing yourself on a bad one. I did myself serious damage last winter by persisting in a long cycle overnight in the wet.

Ordering my turbo trainer this morning.

keogh777

blorg wrote: »

I can do rain and I can do dark but past miserable experience suggests that putting the two together is not generally a good idea... especially up the mountains. Honestly there are enough dry evenings in a winter that I don't see the point in killing yourself on a bad one. I did myself serious damage last winter by persisting in a long cycle overnight in the wet.

Ordering my turbo trainer this morning.

was going to order one of these myself - which one are you going for

Lumen

I see blue skies to the south.

emty

Lumen wrote: »

I see blue skies to the south.

You must be based in Wexford

Lumen

emty wrote: »

You must be based in Wexford

The clouds will look less ominous when it's dark.

emty

Lumen wrote: »

The clouds will look less ominous when it's dark.

Its not the clouds that you need to worry about.

ROK ON

Had a think. Tonite is not for me. Wet leaves are lethal and that is my excuse.

emty

I just drove back from north louth with the intention of going on this but changed my mind on encountering rain of biblical porportions.
Much as I hate to say it Blorg is right.

blorg

keogh777 wrote: »

was going to order one of these myself - which one are you going for

I went for a Tacx i-Magic, you plug it into your PC and it has a brake that varies the resistance according to the gradient. So it can simulate riding up Alpe d'Huez etc. etc. Well apart from the fact it only goes to around 8% or so Thought it might alleviate the boredom a bit and I'd be more likely to use it.

I reckon I now need to do up my "trainer bike."

tomc

Couldn't get out of work in time for this, but having seen the rain on the way home I am glad I had an excuse.:)

TomC