Festive bike lights

[greenmeansgo]

Is there a thread for this already? I couldn't find it. It's a bit early I know, but I put the first set of fairy lights on my bike. Might get a second set on there, and some valve cap lights too (both in the drawer from last year). Does anyone else do this, or is it just me? Here's the first shoddy picture. Better ones to follow in due course.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Not until December, please.  Then go as festive as you like. 

[Andrij]

From 2010...

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/UN_xG-NJiBZyPpYb5IlRoNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

[clarion]

The tent fairy lights will, no doubt, be repurposed again.  Last year, they were on the Dawes tandem.  I rather fancy that, this year, they will be on the Circe

I need to get more practice stoking that machine

[phantasmagoriana]

Here are last year's (with and without flash - with the flash, the reflectors outshine the lights a bit!). The little tree on the rear rack was a bit impractical, really, as the tip got knocked every time I got on or off the bike.

[Kim]

The little tree on the rear rack was a bit impractical, really, as the tip got knocked every time I got on or off the bike.

Good training for captaining a tandem...


I think I'm going to have to find some LED goodness for December's Critical Mass.  That's usually a festival of blinkenlights and santa hats.

[rogerzilla]

Good training for captaining a tandem...

This is why the woman normally goes on the back of the tandem with a male/female couple.

It has nothing to do with the man's desire to be in control.  It is because the man would otherwise be booted in the nads every time the woman mounted the bike.

[Jules]

Poundland etc have lots of USB powered fairy lights to stick round your computer.

They also have little boxes that take 4xAAA batteries and offer a USB socket as an emergency USB device charger.

Insert plug a) into socket b) and Robert's your dad's brother.

[David Martin]

Technically that is a plug A into socket A as plug and socket B are the other sort of USB socket.

[tiermat]

That's given me an idea, I have a cache battery with type A sockets (two of) so I can have USB-powered lights for Xmas ride....

Shall nip into town later Hope Wilkos or Boyes do some as we don't have a Poundland here...

[Charlotte]

This is why the woman normally goes on the back of the tandem with a male/female couple.

It has nothing to do with the man's desire to be in control.  It is because the man would otherwise be booted in the nads every time the woman mounted the bike.

You should stoke for me sometime, Roger