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devistation · by **devistation** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:10 am

whoya wrote:Some friends of mine ride at night. They were able to find some powerful lights in the Mountain Bike riding magazines. They are set up with helmet lights and extended battery packs. FYI

I have a Duel beam bar mount nite rider classic i bought back in 1996.. Got like 10 years out of the water bottle style battery.. Great Light... Nite rider has first class customer service as well, they replaced my light after a crash for free!!

http://www.niterider.com/index.shtml

bocephus450x · by **bocephus450x** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:55 am

here's my $.02
night riding sucks ..... instead of calling night or dark or etc around camp I prefer the term "Miller Time" I'll wait till morning to have more fun

devistation · by **devistation** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:01 am

bocephus450x wrote:here's my $.02
night riding sucks .....

Night riding is a blast!!!!! Come on Cephus.........

bocephus450x · by **bocephus450x** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:06 am

sorry man ........ i do it and its all good but to me it is just a pain in the (mule)

nowazzu · by **nowazzu** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:36 pm

bocephus450x wrote:here's my $.02
night riding sucks ..... instead of calling night or dark or etc around camp I prefer the term "Miller Time" I'll wait till morning to have more fun

There you go... we think alike. I'm usually too f'd up to ride anyway (at night, that is.) Let the quadtards have the night rides... I'll sit by the fire with a bottle of Jager and blow up Sobe torches.....

Dust Devil · by **Dust Devil** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:48 pm

I'll skip the SObe Bombs and riding my bike at night, but a bottle/ a few beers by the campfire are OK by me.......Dunebuggys are a blast at night too...

Smash · by **Smash** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:31 pm

Dust Devil wrote:I'll skip the SObe Bombs and riding my bike at night, but a bottle/ a few beers by the campfire are OK by me.......Dunebuggys are a blast at night too...

Oh yeah, dunebuggies and quads at night. Once in a while I'll take the bike out to comp hill at night when at Dumont. But I prefer a quad or rail at night.

As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Mr Smith · by **Mr Smith** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:47 pm

Smash wrote:
As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Im thinkin I need to see a couple of these..

nowazzu · by **nowazzu** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:02 pm

Mr Smith wrote:
Smash wrote:
As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Im thinkin I need to see a couple of these..

From last weekend... I'll dig up more later...

Asmith · by **Asmith** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:12 pm

Mr Smith wrote:
Smash wrote:
As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Im thinkin I need to see a couple of these..

I'm right there with you Smithers!! I love blowing up stuff...

PhilM · by **PhilM** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:15 pm

That will light up the sky.

I have been running a a piaa replacement headlight with a set of fog/driving lights for aux lighting and have been putting off a stator rewind combined with a better light set up, and was wondering if the helmet light might buy me some time. The battery has been getting its arse kicked doing my lighting this way, but it really works ok. I was looking for an alternative set up before i have to spend the $$ on a Baja set up or the like.

Smash · by **Smash** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:51 pm

~ wrote:
Mr Smith wrote:
Smash wrote:
As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Im thinkin I need to see a couple of these..

I'm right there with you Smithers!! I love blowing up stuff...

Yup, no one else in camp is brave enough, um I mean dumb enough to try them. I'm running at 5 of 9 right now. Figured out the first problem now I'm working on the next regarding how much heat. You can actually overheat the bottle and have it break before the nice mushroom eruption!

BuckNrut · by **BuckNrut** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:20 am

Done some night rides on the ATV at Windrock but havent done any on the X yet.

nowazzu · by **nowazzu** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:20 am

Smash wrote:
~ wrote:
Mr Smith wrote:
Smash wrote:
As for the Sobe bombs... No way I'd give that up, I haven't perfected them yet!!!!

Im thinkin I need to see a couple of these..

I'm right there with you Smithers!! I love blowing up stuff...

Yup, no one else in camp is brave enough, um I mean dumb enough to try them. I'm running at 5 of 9 right now. Figured out the first problem now I'm working on the next regarding how much heat. You can actually overheat the bottle and have it break before the nice mushroom eruption!

Some tips:

1. Build a sand base in the fire to stabilize the bottle
2. Build a bridge of fire near the area where the opening of the bottle will be. This will help ignite the escaping fuel.
3. So far, I have good luck keeping the bottle about 9" - 10" from surrounding flames (except the top)
4. An asbestos kiln glove works really well for this. I can reach in, place the bottle and even move logs around with it....

Disclaimer... if you hurt yourself or anyone else, it's Smash's fault....

Mr Smith · by **Mr Smith** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:10 am

That makes my pallet fires look like candles.

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