{"id":203,"date":"2015-09-28T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-09-28T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:27:28","slug":"rose-has-a-broken-headlamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Rose has a broken headlamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Rose. Years of cycle commuting has taken its toll and her hub-powered headlamp has fallen to pieces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brokenbikelamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brokenbikelamp.jpg\" alt=\"brokenbikelamp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brokenbikelamp.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brokenbikelamp-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disaster strikes! Rose has lost her headlamp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have chosen to replace the headlamp with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabendynamo.de\/produkte\/led_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Schmidt Edelux II LED<\/a> light from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjscycles.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">St John&#8217;s Street Cycles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/newlampbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/newlampbox.jpg\" alt=\"newlampbox\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/newlampbox.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/newlampbox-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new lamp has arrived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I like the simplicity of packaging. It suggests that all the effort has gone in to designing the light, not the box it comes in.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/openedlampbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/openedlampbox.jpg\" alt=\"openedlampbox\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/openedlampbox.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/openedlampbox-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The box contents at first glance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new headlamp is unveiled. What else has come with it?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lampboxcontents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-195 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lampboxcontents.jpg\" alt=\"lampboxcontents\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lampboxcontents.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/lampboxcontents-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything is supplied to complete the replacement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s everything needed to complete the replacement. The extra coiled cable is for running to the rear of the bike to power a tail light. However, Rose has two large Cateye LED lamps powered by batteries that help keep us visible at night.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the lamp supplied is the version with the 140cm cable which will need to be cut to length and prepared for fitting to the front fork. More on this in another post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Rose. Years of cycle commuting has taken its toll and her hub-powered headlamp has fallen to pieces. I have chosen to replace the headlamp with a Schmidt Edelux II LED light from St John&#8217;s Street Cycles. I like the simplicity of packaging. It suggests that all the effort has gone in to designing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/?p=203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rose has a broken headlamp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkandscary.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}