I nearly didn’t look at this thread because I assumed it was yet another showing the new battery.
This looks interesting though. No improvements on spec (apart from the mount, but I’m happy with the current 0-ring mount). So either they’ve improved things internally or it’s just more expensive.
The reflector looks more sophisticated, but the beam shots don’t look too different from the old model. Hard to tell I guess.
2 modes is probably better – the flash is completely useless anyway.
In the discussion part at the bottom of the page there is mention of the reflector being honeycombed in design which may improve the spread of the beam?
To be honest it looks to me (layman) that they’ve made the design of the lamp easier/cheaper to produce – as you say AS, the LED spec looks exactly the same. Initially they may have been copying the Lupine Tesla design, but now they have a market presence, there no need for that.
Not sure about the mounting though personnally, but then the elastic band was never the greatest of designs, even if Lupine use it on there units.
If there was a major difference I would consider changing the order. £11 more for a new light enclosure and mount seems to be the extent of the changes tho.
hmmm – the prices are close enough that just maybe, you might be able to tempt people to buy from you instead Spokebloke.
Warranty and stock of parts might be enough.
I guess everyone will now learn the lesson that if you get magicshine to make a light for you, it’ll be available from DX soon after, for less. Shame.
So, £72 from DX, who won’t be paying any UK duty, in fact theres a chance you may have to pay it yourself if you order from them. Back-up/warranty will presumably be not as good (certainly more complicated). Delivery may take a while and DX are not riders trying to earn a living (as I assume spokebloke is ‘cos he’s on here).
All in all it proves to me what a good deal Spokebloke is offering. They look like good lights. I’m tempted to order one…..off spokebloke 😉
It’s a theory which when condensed down to the level of an OXO cube says “You can’t make decent money doing something if there’s nothing stopping anyone else from having a go”.
who won’t be paying any UK duty, in fact theres a chance you may have to pay it yourself if you order from them
err…….. no you won’t – it’s below the threshold
Spokebloke does run a good business though & is even faster than CRC used to be 🙂
At those prices, I’d probably buy off him Vs DX but the DX battery looks a lot better sealed, so I dunno – flip a coin
if you own the design rights in all or part you may be able to prevent others setting up a business importing in bulk but practically speaking you can’t do much about punters buying direct from outside UK
Order cancelled for the old style from DX. Weird how I have to wait till 03/10/2010 for the refund tho. Anyways, going to see what the word is on these ones and probably punt an order during the week.
“Customs duty – Customs duty becomes payable if the goods are over £135 in value but is waived if the amount calculated is less than £9. Customs duty is usually charged as a percentage of the value of the goods.”
Yep – sorry uplink, I wasn’t clear enough in the original post duty/VAT mix up!
And no I haven’t ever had to pay on anything from DX, or heard of anyone who has. Although it might get more likely as more and more parcels marked “Bike light-Gift” go through the system. I was just trying to show some support for spokes and pointing out that there is a chance you could get clobbered, not looking for an arguement 🙄 or indeed 😉