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Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Apollo Infini Carrier Rear Bike Lights

I ordered a couple of Infini Apollo lights for the carriers of tow of my bikes a couple oweeks ago from Chain Reaction Cycles (www.chainreactioncycles.com ) and so I thought I'd let you know how I was getting on with them.

Firstly, delivery was astonishingly fast - I've not dealt much with these people, but they do deliver and quickly - so far so good.

These lights are for fitting onto a standard European carrier with mounting holes - this may be the first problem - you have to knock out the right holes dependant on the spacing of the fittings that you've got - if you then were to move the lights to a different bike with different fittings, then there could be a problem with water seepage.

The lights are initially confusing - do not lose the instructions! There are four potential modes - solid, flashing, on/off, or movement/light sensed - all from one button - confusing - it will be!

The light is bright, very bright - there are three rearward facing LEDs and two sideways facing, with a large area of reflector (presumably EU or German standard).

I've left both of mine on the movement / light sensor setting, and so far they seem to behave as you might predict, coming on at a sensible level of duskness (is that a word?), and staying on for several minutes after movement ceases (it says four minutes in the instructions - I've not times it, life's too short).

Did I mention they were only just under £8 each - very much a bargain if you've got a carrier to fit one on.

Now for the front.




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