Well, looks like I am about to join the fraternity of night riders. I have long wanted to ride at night with my mates, but the prohibitive cost of a decent set of lights deterred my interest. It is pretty hard to justify to the wife an outlay of $400+ for something that keeps me away from home more.
Lo and behold, my old favourite bike-gear-website Chain Reaction Cycles have done it again - this time they've extracted a mere $95 from me for a set of NiteFlux lights (VisionStick). These little beauties have a 15 watt halogen AND a 4 watt LED, with 2 batteries, plus handlebar and helmet mounts (all for less than a hundy). How good is that? Ironically, this is an Australian company, and it is cheaper to buy their products from a UK website, than from their own website.
I know that I am not doing the Australian mountain bike industry any favours by purchasing my goodies overseas, but when you can get it for a quarter of the price overseas, why wouldn't you? I am not that altruistic that I need to feel "good about myself" by buying my stuff on home soil.
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