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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Leicester's 'Continental' Market

During last week, Leicester City Coucil held one of their 'Continental Markets' in the city centre. We went along on Saturday, and were very pleased we did.

There were a number of stalls around the Clock Tower area, using the newly pedestianised areas very effectively. The stallholders were selling a variety of goods from, errrr, more than one continent. To me 'Continental Market' conjours up visions of stinky cheese and odd sausages rather than Peruvian knitting, or generic pot sellers - but hey! who's complaining?

We bought some stinky French cheese from a nice man from Normandy, who was happy to gabble in French to me, some nice French pastries and a few other odds and ends. Mrs Grumpy was rather dissapointed not to be able to get any Dutch windmill biscuits, I did remind her that this was not the Christmas market - just a random event.

Leicester tourism must do a better job of publicising this sort of thing. And they should re-instate the Leicester Continental Christmas market.

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East Midland Food Festival 2008

Mrs Grumpy and I went to the East Midlands Food Festival at Brooksby Agricultural College yesterday - and it's difficult to know what to be grumpy about - it was a jolly fine trip. This food fair ran over two days at Brooksby College just outside Leicester.

It was held in a series of linked marquees - away from the weather (which was pretty dire) with car parking in the adjoining fields. The car parking was free and controlled by local paramilitary groups such as the air cadets (I know they aren't really paramilitaries, but there's something strange there....). Entrance to the food festival itself was £7.50 each, although there were reductions for advance purchase.

There was plenty of food to eat for free as tasters from the various stalls, and a fair amount to drink as well. Mrs Grumpy was upset that there weren't more cider producers giving out free samples. Say no more!

There was a good selection of food stalls selling their wares to eat on the premises or to take away. There were also plenty of freebies - with cloth bags being the fashion of the moment.

We bought some excellent wholegrain mustard, to improve the mashed potatoes; some interesting wheat crisps, some nice bread, and a really nice sweet Polish cake for the stupidly low price of 50p - I think this was from a bakery in Melton. They could easily have sold these for twice that price. Yum.

All in all it was a very good trip out and one I'd heartily recommend to the younger Grumpies for 2009.

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