[CR]Re: Lance Armstrong (off topic) & UK Cycle Lights (On topic - veering to off topic) Ian Briggs

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:22:05 -0500
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Subject: [CR]Re: Lance Armstrong (off topic) & UK Cycle Lights (On topic - veering to off topic) Ian Briggs

RE: Lance Armstrong - I'm just wondering what the Classic Cycling element is in this?

RE: UK Cycle lights - Just a personal observation here... when I was UK club riding in the 1970s and '80s the single most unreliable component we used was the battery-powered cycle lamp. Ever Ready and Pifco were the so-called "Market Leaders" and without exception everything they produced was horrible, unreliable and sure to fail you in the middle of Dartmoor at 2 am in the morning (and they did in fact - that was dodgy ride home to Plymouth!). That is why I'll never get misty eyed about the things and wouldn't go near them now, not even in the name of originality. Forget carbon fibre, spds, index gears, lightweight in-moulded helmets - the greatest advance in cycling technology in the last 40 years is LED cycle lamps. Off topic now - and topic closed!