The Long Haul Truckers and Crosschecks offer good platforms for setting up quality touring and commuting bikes.
In this case, a Trucker was chosen as the starting point. The bike will be carrying heavy loads with rear and front panniers plus the bar bag.
The bike will also be used extensively for city riding. By integrating a dynamo lighting system you get light when you need it. The Busch and Müller IQ Fly plus headlight is a headlight we often recommend: ‘plus’ means it means includes standlicht, or standlight, (ie: it stays …

Good options in standard battery bike lights and dynamo bike lights have been available for a while but only recently have high quality and affordable USB rechargeable lights hit the market.

We’re now stocking and strongly recommending the Serfas USB front and rear lights. They’ve hit the balance of: very bright light output, long burn time, sturdy and universal mount, and well priced.

5 LED/ wide visibility
(Up to) 6.5/10 hours burn time for the front/rear lights
High beam/Low beam/Flashing modes
The front light rated at 70 lumens, the rear at ‘up to 1 mile …

Welcome to our winter update! Read through the latest from the workshop and also some cycling news from around Melbourne.
Bill’s back from 4 weeks cycling in Europe. The first two weeks of this was with a big group checking out the Netherlands (check the Cycling Dutch Style blog). then 2 weeks for a quick trip through Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris. Keep tuned to humanpowered.com.au for a trip report with photos soon.
In this edition:

News from the workshop
End of financial year
Great bikes, bikes for transport
Maintenance Training
Kids on bikes: child seats
Cycling news around Melbourne

NEWS FROM …

Daylight savings ended. Then the Ride On lights test in the latest edition of the Bicycle Victoria magazine was published. Then I spent a few days perusing the bike lights on offer at a few popular shops around Melbourne… now I’m motivated to make some comments on the lighting options we’ve got on offer and why.
This article is divided into five sections. These are:

Mini lights: legal (… on a full battery), discussing mini battery lights
Better choices of battery lights, including At a pinch – cheaper battery lights and also Quality …