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HuckGnarris pinkbikeoriginals's article
Nov 9, 2023 at 8:11
Nov 9, 2023
Video: What's the Real Difference of Lumen Output on the Trail?
@powturn: not necessarily, because bar lights are below your eye line they project shadows out from roots and rocks in the trail that you can look down into, which makes them look 3-dimensional. Any helmet light, because it’s mounted above your eye line, won’t produce those shadows, the net effect being that everything looks flat. At high speed, you’re looking down trail and reading the terrain in front of you out of your periphery, which if it looks flat, makes it more difficult to process if that rock has a hole after it or if it’s flush with the dirt, so you end up riding out of position more or just guessing, making you ride slower, unless you just know every rock and root in that specific trail. If your helmet light is more powerful than your bar light, you can easily wash out all that depth rendering the bar light much less useful. That, and bar lights really need a super wide beam so you don’t lose the trail when you countersteer into a corner or even just get offline a bit, covering a wider field of view at similar intensity means you need more lumens/power to do that, whereas a helmet light can be a bit narrower beam since you control where it’s pointed, meaning it can use less power, which means less battery, and less weight on your head/neck where you actually feel it. There’s always exceptions, if you’re riding big jump lines where the terrain is buff and you need to see into big gaps, helmet light is king, for sure, because depth doesn’t matter and your bar light doesn’t help as much. If you’re in the desert, it’s so wide open but super rocky, you can get away with just the bar light and no helmet light, to better read the trail. Horses for courses.
HuckGnarris MarsMagicshine's article
Oct 12, 2023 at 14:14
Oct 12, 2023
Magicshine Introduces the Monteer 12000 Bike Light
@valrock: I’ll correct a little science here: LEDs can absolutely sustain high output continuously, as they heat up they can dim ~10% or so, but the only reason they would burn up is because of poor thermal design getting the heat out. That’s not even the reason most companies just have the light taper off as the battery dies, that’s so they can claim longer runtimes according to FL-1 standards that are based on incandescent bulbs and alkaline batteries. Companies can absolutely rate things correctly and honestly, but they’re not incentivized to, because the numbers don’t look as good on paper. Outbound at least published runtime graphs for each product to show the light output over time, and it’s just the Adaptive mode that tapers at all, High/Med/Low all hold constant outputs. I’ll talk about how dumb FL-1 is all day, but I don’t think anyone wants to hear that, ha. Otherwise I agree, 2-3klm is generally more than enough for riding at speed, particularly with a good beam pattern putting the light where you need it.
HuckGnarris MarsMagicshine's article
Oct 12, 2023 at 14:08
Oct 12, 2023
Magicshine Introduces the Monteer 12000 Bike Light
That’s actually a great analogy for how they run their business too.
HuckGnarris MarsMagicshine's article
Oct 12, 2023 at 13:10
Oct 12, 2023
Magicshine Introduces the Monteer 12000 Bike Light
You’re correct, they just have difficulty translating to English terms sometimes.
HuckGnarris christiefitz's article
Apr 1, 2023 at 9:31
Apr 1, 2023
[April Fools] Tech Briefing: April 2023
Outbound Lighting’s submission to the annual joke product rodeo: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqe__cHuEhW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Aug 18, 2022 at 12:28
Aug 18, 2022
Selling
Aug 18, 2022 at 12:27
Aug 18, 2022

Trek Fuel EX 9.9 27lbs

$1900 USD
Fairly stock 2019 Fuel EX 9.9 (full carbon front triangle, seat stays, and chain stays). 27.0lbs without pedals, the DT Swiss carbon wheels make it super quick accelerating and light feeling. My partner has been riding this bike for a few years but switched to a shorter travel bike for the daily driver about a year ago and so this bike has just been sitting for a while now. It's been ridden, so it's got scuffs and aesthetic damage, including the typical clear coat peeling on the handlebars (frame does not have that problem). Happy to provide more detail pictures of specific pieces as needed, located in Bellingham, WA.

HuckGnarris henryquinney's article
Aug 23, 2021 at 16:06
Aug 23, 2021
Opinion: Are New Bike Component Standards Really That Bad?
Situation: There are 14 competing standards for a specific bike product. Brilliant Company Designer:" 14?!? Ridiculous! We need to develop a new standard to covers everyone's use cases! Yeah!" New Situation: There 15 competing standards for a specific bike product.
HuckGnarris mikekazimer's article
Jul 21, 2021 at 12:08
Jul 21, 2021
Check Out: Futuristic Handlebars, New Saddles, Back Protection, & More
For some reason customers seem to love products that are more expensive, eliminate all adjustability, and have no cylindrical surfaces for mounting anything other than grips. The integrated bar/stem combos are cool for really specific dedicated builds that want to maximize aesthetics and cleanliness at the expense of everything else, but philosophically they just irritate me. Options? Great. Standard equipment? Hard pass.
HuckGnarris mikekazimer's article
Jul 14, 2021 at 11:30
Jul 14, 2021
Norco Launches 3 New eMTBs - Batteries Sold Separately
I was just wondering how the bike industry could introduce another new “standard” that is completely unnecessary. Really looking forward to he 1.8” forks that will no longer be compatible with any existing frame on the market, you know, because we keep seeing all these eBike riders snapping their steerer tubes off from the extra 20lbs of weight that puts “substantially more stress” on the fork. Christ this industry is dumb. The bikes look awesome though.
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