Where to buy bike lights you can't steal?

slenderkitten

i have some cheap catseye ones they come with brackets you keep attached to the bike but then slip off the lights. i think in this day and age people will take anything they can sell, i would advise you to try to remember to take off your lights.

Chomeur

The problem I find is that the rear light brackets don't hold the lights very well so that if you go over a bump, the lights often jump out and end up on the road, maybe smashed. You can glue the lights on but I'm not sure how well you can do that and still be able to open up the light to change the battery. Perhaps the velcro ones are the things to get.

boliston

kerby_crawler wrote: »

The failure of the cycle industry to provide an integrated lighting system on their products is just one of the ways in which they have failed to keep up with changing times. The absence of an integrated locking system is another.

I would not want to weigh my bike down with lights in the summer months, and most locks that work are heavy so I would not want to be weighed down with a heavy lock when I won't need a lock.

liz545

boliston wrote: »

I would not want to weigh my bike down with lights in the summer months, and most locks that work are heavy so I would not want to be weighed down with a heavy lock when I won't need a lock.

Many Dutch bikes come with integrated dynamo lighting, and a rear wheel lock, which acts as an immobiliser for short stops. Van Moof have started doing modern bikes with similar features - it's not my style, but it's rather clever. It all depends what you want your bike for - if it's a practical transport bike, there are quite a few out there that have clever features!

dandelionclock30

jjblondie wrote: »

Hi all,

having never had a bike light stolen, I've now had them disappear on campus 4 times since the beginning of November! They are never expensive ones, and I can't think of why anyone would bother, but that's besides the point. I'm always in a rush and if I do take my lights with me, I forget them - thus taking them with me isn't really an option. Does anyone have any good experiences on lights which are harder to steal?

Thanks

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It takes a second or so to unclip a light, some cheapies are even on elastic!. I think you sound quite lazy if you cant be arsed to unclip your lights.
Sounds like you need to be a bit more organized and a bit more responsible.

ljonski

Sounds like you need to be a bit more organized and a bit more responsible.

I think they are a student !

esuhl

kerby_crawler wrote: »

The failure of the cycle industry to provide an integrated lighting system on their products is just one of the ways in which they have failed to keep up with changing times. The absence of an integrated locking system is another.

I doubt most people would be happy to spend an extra £150 for a decent set of off-road floodlights like I require. That would double the cost of a cheap mountain bike!!!

And I wouldn't be happy to pay an extra £20 or £40 for cheap useless lights that I'd throw straight in the bin.

An integrated locking system would be nice... but when I go on a 30 mile round-trip ride for fun, I don't want to carry an extra 3kg in weight for no good reason.

And I wouldn't want the added weight and expense of a lightweight lock for when I leave my bike at the supermarket if I need to buy a better one anyway.

It makes far more sense to allow cyclists to choose the lighting and security options that are right for them.

dandelionclock30

£150 for off road floodlight?. You can get a 1300 Luminems cree torch for £20.00 off ebay. 2 of these will turn night into day!.
Your being well ripped off if your paying that.

kerby_crawler

esuhl wrote: »

I doubt most people would be happy to spend an extra £150 for a decent set of off-road floodlights like I require. That would double the cost of a cheap mountain bike!!!

And I wouldn't be happy to pay an extra £20 or £40 for cheap useless lights that I'd throw straight in the bin.

An integrated locking system would be nice... but when I go on a 30 mile round-trip ride for fun, I don't want to carry an extra 3kg in weight for no good reason.

And I wouldn't want the added weight and expense of a lightweight lock for when I leave my bike at the supermarket if I need to buy a better one anyway.

It makes far more sense to allow cyclists to choose the lighting and security options that are right for them.

One of the reasons why cyclists are sometimes not taken very seriously by other road users is that they are exempt from so many of the expensive and inconvenient regulations which most road users have to live with. I daresay most Caterham sports car owners would be highly delighted to be able to avoid having to carry around a set of lights!

Allowing cyclists to regard lighting as an optional extra very often translates into allowing cyclists to ride in the dark with no lights at all (although this is less of a problem than it used to be, thanks to the (illegal?) use of LEDs).

As a totally irrelevant anecdote, I can remember the days when a heater was an optional extra on a bottom of the range Ford! I can remember more than one trip up the A3 when I had to keep stopping to scrape the ice off the inside of my windscreen - the motor industry has continually improved the safety aspects of its products, but the cycling industry has not progressed from the golden era of the first half of the last century!

The real joke, of course, is the half-hearted (not to say confused...) campaign by the powers-that-be to promote cycling as a universally safe, healthy and feasible alternative to using the car, whilst doing almost nothing to make their message come true.

shegha

buy a set of frog lights, easy to take off and small enough to fit in a small pocket
this is what both my boys use