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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About MTB Lights

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this illuminating episode of the Singletracks podcast, we talk about mountain bike lights, briefly touching on the history of bike lights before diving into the key things every mountain biker needs to know about lighting up the trail.

--Keep up with the latest in mountain biking at Singletracks.com and on Instagram @singletracks

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.

0:03.0

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab.

0:08.0

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.

0:11.0

Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.

0:16.0

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0:20.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst dots last. Hey, everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.3

My name is Jeff, and today Aaron and I are going to be talking about lights for mountain biking.

0:28.9

Specifically, we're talking about the lights that let you ride on trails at night,

0:33.6

and we're going to run down all the things you need to know about lights for mountain biking.

0:39.0

So I wanted to start off talking about the history of riding at night.

0:43.2

And it turns out there isn't a whole lot of information about this.

0:47.0

I was telling Aaron that at Interbike a couple years ago,

0:49.9

I was talking to someone from the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.

0:53.7

And they had one of the old,

0:56.4

original, you know, early mountain bikes on display there, and it had some kind of light on it

1:01.7

with, like, one of those big, you know, 9-volt DC batteries on it that you would use to, like,

1:08.2

I don't know, start a fishing boat or something.

1:14.6

But apparently, you know, people have been riding at night for a long time.

1:18.3

Were you able to find anything, Aaron, about the history of mountain biking at night?

1:19.4

Not really.

1:22.7

Not as it pertains specifically to mountain biking. Most of the major light companies all started around 25 years or a little bit longer ago.

1:30.3

So that would include Night Rider, Light in Motion, and Cygolite.

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