John’s Ramblings

I’d like to suggest the CatEye TL-LD1000 as your replacement.
http://www.cateye.com/en/products/viewProduct.php?modelId=41&catId=7&subCatId=4

Kick butt tail light!

I’d second the CatEye TL-LD1000 for its “I’m *here*” brightness. It runs for about 20+ hours on a pair of rechargable AAs.

I added a zip tie to further affix it on.

My blinkie tragedy of 2005, immortalized in various forms of poetry:

To the tune of “I left my heart in San Francisco”:

I lost my blinkie
On Second Av’nue
I hit a bump — it flew away
Then a city metro bus
Crunched it; let me cuss
It was cheap, it wasn’t rare
I don’t care!

My blinkie’s crushed
On Second Av’nue
I will mourn its loss, and heave a sigh
When I buy a new, replacement blinkie
The old will always shine in mem-o-ry!
—

A limerick:

On the way to downtown seattle
My blinkie had started to rattle
A flight it did take
But wound up a pancake
Mister gravity won the last battle

—

To the tune of “On Top of Spaghetti”)

In downtown Se-att-le
All covered with rain
I lost my poor blinkie
Now ain’t that a pain?

It fell off the rear rack
And onto the ground
And then a bus crushed it
It’ll never be found.

So farewell old blinkie
You served me so well.
But this always happens
With cheap crap from Bell.
—

Haiku:

Second Ave in Spring
Potholes and a metro bus
Death of a Blinkie

(A well-executed haiku is rooted in the physical world of our senses, yet suggests something deeper, often evoking the mysterious, transitory nature of all existence. By invoking the images of spring, of grey potholes perhaps filled with rain, and contrasting that the bright blinkie turning to shards of plastic, we are rewarded not just with the required kigo of haiku, but
its satori moment of the blinkie’s destruction. We are left with a feeling of melancholy, the shunshu of spring.)