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Blackburn Flea light setFriday Schwag Grab Blackburn Flea lights: we have the winners!
Tiffin has been taken, the random number generator fired up and the big red button pressed. So it's time to announce the winners of this week's Schwag Grab. And they are (drum roll)...
Keith Underdown
osnago
Noddy
radar
john-o
Congrats to the lucky winners and commiserations to y'all who missed out. Next week: some natty pedals!
[here's the original story]
The Schwag Grab has been away for a bit but now it's back! And this week we've got five sets of Blackburn Flea front and rear lights to offload on you lucky chancers courtesy of our pals at Madison.
If you haven't seen the Flea lights before, well they're mad clever: the lights are rechargeable and the come with a little charging unit that attaches magnetically to any standard AA battery: they work with rechargeables too.
Once they've had their fill they'll run for between 3 and 12 hours, depending on mode, before you need to top them up. And they only weigh 17g each, so even the most stringent of racing snakes should be okay with them.
The rules are as usual: just comment on this story to be in the hat. No multiple posts please. We'll draw the winner on Friday at about tiffin-time. Mmmm, tiffin.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Sweet!!
I really like the look of them. Please send me a set?
Those lights look good!
Great idea, but do they work with rechargeable AA batteries, seems to imply one needs to use disposable alkaline batteries? Surely this needs changing?
Anyway, nice to see someone doing something different.
My son has just (quite suddenly!) gotten into cycling and is awaiting his new Rock Lobster bike (after riding his dads Kona for a while) I think these lights would be perfect for him!
A plea for a free flea for me, this Fridee...
Nice
count me in, i need something to brighten me up on those long dreary night commutes.
Blackburn Flea come to me
Welcome as a cup of tea
Light me home on dark nights
Stop me from car collision frights
Do not encumber me with weight
And get left behind by my speedy mate
due to energy cutbacks the lights at the end of the tunnel have been switched off
I can't compete with the Poetry and Humour above, so just me in please!
Oh, me too, me too.
Yes please!
Welcome back Schwag !
Just one more for the (night-time) road, hic!
I light these a lot!! B)
Flea to me for a light commute
They really look the part!
Woo, some new lights would be nice, it's nearly winter in Scotland!
Me please. I've got swine flu. Need cheering up.
A neat idea and no bother to carry - on or off the bike.
What a lovely pair...
Not even August.
Nights drawing in.
New lights?
Yes please.
I am geeky enough to truly appreciate these. Ta.
Just what I need for the Cotic Roadrat I have on order (which I bought on the strength of the review on this very site) - luvverlee
handy little backups.
Just broke the clip on my rear light so your generosity would be well timed.
narch
Lights please
J
I've not seen the light!
you can never have too many lights, can you?
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