Cycling UK Forum

Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑27 Aug 2024, 12:48pm One of the B&M Toplight series would be my choice. Example: https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/lighting/bu ... ear-light/

+1

These are absolutely great. Mine is a different model, but has given sterling service for commuting, Audax, the Dynamo and other such nighttime riding uses. Coped just fine with plenty of rain, excellent battery life and very easy to carry (or buy) a spare battery since it's a standard AAA.

mattheus wrote: ↑12 Mar 2024, 10:07amAre folk here saying that the current Sniping Software is cleverer than eBay's inbuilt feature? IAMFI :-)

It's not that it's smarter than eBay's inbuilt feature - sniping software is smarter than eBay's human users.

If everyone using eBay just did so by entering their best and final bid at the start and then resolutely ignoring the auction until completion, there would be no value in sniping software. You'd put in your bid, everyone else who is interested would put in theirs, and the highest bidder would win at whatever price was necessary to beat the second highest bidder.

But people are irrational. Once they've bid on something, they often feel a sense of ownership or entitlement towards it. So if you try to use eBay like this, you'll often find that other participants in the auction are willing to up their "maximum" bids to beat you, if they realise that their bid has been topped.

To prevent this, you enter the bidding late (aka snipe) - so there's less time for other people to realise that you've bid and make changes to their own bids to top you. Sniping software lets you automate that process, and so it helps reduce the impact of human irrationality on the bidding.

White label = manufactured by a third party; branded by the seller.

One obvious difference is that even a pretty lightweight motorcycle weighs around 100kg. Immobilising the wheels makes it really quite awkward to take that away - just popping it over your shoulder isn't exactly going to work. While the vast majority of bicycles can be carried off without too much difficulty regardless of any wheel immobilisation.

If you do want to go that way, consider a traditional frame lock as seen on many Dutch bikes etc. They mount to the seat stays and lock through the rear wheel.