One more year of bicycle related purchases. I try to buy stuff only when I need it and keep impulse purchases to a minimum but from time to time stuff goes under the radar of common sense. Anyhow the purchases I made proved inexpensive and sometimes cheap stuff can also provide many smiles. Read a few mini-reviews >>

I need a light that will run at least four hours on a single set of batteries, that way I can carry two sets for a night 's worth of riding, one installed and one in the backpack. According to DiNottes's website if I use Lithium disposable batteries I should get 30% more running time out of them. so that is 130 minutes for four AA; two sets of 4 AAs connected in parallel (positive to positive, negative to negative) will provide me with 260 minutes or a little over 4 h 20 minutes of high beam. That should do.

La la la inside my head, happy songs that come to me when riding and not by means of a silly iPod crap thank you. Anyways, the weather was very nice, I was having a good ride like most times then all of the sudden I head this POW! followed by a pssfssfssfssfss, after years of riding I know what that means, the tire - rear one in this case - blew off. So now I am trying to do a controled stop on a Sunday afternoon busy Golden Gate Bridge west sidewalk. The bike does not respond well but at least is the rear tire and I am on smooth concrete.