Five Cool Things at Christmas 2024/25: here are the winners who have bagged themselves some extra cycling schwag

I have the Trace and Tracer, which have essentially the same design, albeit smaller and less powerful. The controls are a little complicated but only because there are loads of options. In reality, once you've chosen your level of brightness, you'll only cycle through 1 or 2 options and it's dead simple. The lights are rock solid, bright, with good runtimes. The only thing I find annoying is charging them - if your fingers are slightly wet or greasy, getting the rubber out of the way of the charging port is a pain in the arse.

Dance and padel is all very well, but when is Strava going to let me record my gardening?

You can use it to check whether it's raining.

If it's dusk, i.e. post-sunset, then the cyclists should have lights on and thus the colour of their top is irrelevant. If you want to complain about cyclists not having lights when it's mandatory then by all means do but their top has nothing to do with it.

All of my Exposure lights with a button allow cycling through the modes with a short press. I have five of those; it would be odd if Exposure didn’t allow this functionality with the Boost 3. I also have two Exposure Burners if I remember correctly: they are rear lights for joysticks that clip on and are powered through the joystick charging port. They don’t have a button. None of my Exposure lights have failed. I looked at the Boost 3 review photos but none showed the button, so far as I could tell. I also have Moon lights. Good experience generally. One did fail, possibly because it was so thin it used to fall through the holes in my helmet onto the ground. Also, the UI and charge indicators vary for my Moon lights. Perhaps the latest ones are more consistent. My worst lights ever were from See.Sense.

Steve really doesnt like exposure products does he? Boost and Strada marked down for being too complicated. While the Zenith and Six Pack reviewed by his colleagues give them rave reviews (as most exposure products have on road.cc), the Zenith even touted as 'even more intuitive to use' with the same controls.

They are more interested in dog shit. https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/people/lancaster-police-launch-search-for-person-who-sprayed-dog-faeces-with-pink-paint-5605519

What is the point of the mirror? Are you supposed to check your hair when riding on the tops?

I can see the car (larger, lights etc) more easily than I can see a bike rider in a black or dark top. Therefore, at that moment of crossing the risk is greater. Try crossing Lower Richmond Road Putney or Battersea Park or Battersea Rise Clapham at dusk and see.

I can see the car (larger, lights etc) more easily than I can see a bike rider in a black or dark top. Therefore, at that moment of crossing the risk is greater. Try crossing Lower Richmond Road Putney or Battersea Park or Battersea Rise Clapham at dusk and see.