Re: Question about Huffy bikes

Sorni wrote:
Colorado Bicycler wrote:

Bill Baka wrote:

Sorni wrote:

Bill Baka wrote:


Here it is, just for you...
http://www.cateye.com/en/products/viewProduct.php?modelId=19&catId=7&subCatId=2


Cateye has a web site and if you can't find it then why use a
computer? I am happy with my Cateye on the road and as a spare
flashlight. I am also not worried about a few lumens more or less,
since I can see
fairly well even in country starlight with no moon, so the light is
just as much an advance warning to drivers that there is someone on
the road. The only thing I can't see by starlight is potholes, even
though I can follow the road by it.


Bill, you wrote the following:



The Cateye 5 LED is much more efficient since the is a direct
electric to light conversion and no heat wasted. Go to their web
site and you will see the difference.


At least two different people said they couldn't find what you were
describing and asked for a link, and you COMPLETELY IGNORED THEM
both times and spouted off about {whatever} instead.

Can you point out what you referenced for the unwashed masses?

TYVM, BS





http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/olderlights/product_89080.shtml



A) That's not "their website" that BS-in' Bill referenced.

B) Still don't see the "direct electric to light conversion (with) no heat wasted" claim. Not saying it's wrong or doesn't exist; just ain't seen it.

Pardon me if I'm skeptical about almost everything /Bullshittin' Bill Baka/ (copywritable?!?) writes. (Although getting his "speedometer" "calibrated" to "within 1/1000s of a mile" MUST be true! LOL)

Bill "woke up cynical" S.


Let me clarify.
A properly designed LED is about the most efficient light source known since it depends on the quantum jumps of electrons from one state to another when excited by electricity. Hence, each combination of elements to form a particular LED emit a wavelength, visible or not, according to the characteristics of the elements involved in their fabrication.
Since I am not here to educate you on semiconductor physics you will just have to look it up for yourselves if you can understand all that.

My speedometer has five digits and at first showed 0.0000 miles. The calibration factor by default is set for a 700 tire with a number like 2235. For a 26 x 2.25 tire the number is more like 21xx so the best calibration possible is one part in 2200. The mileage was incrementing about 0.004 mile for every 3 rotations of the wheel, which fits in with the distance of one revolution.

BTW, the LED Cateye has a life per charge of about 130 hours and the Halogens only about 4 hours if I remember the charts correctly. I use 2500maH NiMH rechargeable batteries and do carry spares, as if I need to.

Bill, not bullshitting here, but you can find your own information with a simple Google just as easily as me.
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