{"id":1995,"date":"2009-10-19T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2009-10-20T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:30:41","slug":"my-niterider-trinewt-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/my-niterider-trinewt-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"My NiteRider TriNewt Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/niterider_trinewt_wireless\/IMG_4162.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/87192-2\/IMG_4162.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"While riding at River Bends my TriNewt hit some low hanging brush and broke the mount. I also suspect that wires inside the cable stretched and broke, as it no longer turns on.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tonight was a perfect night for a ride. Beautiful clear skies, upper 50s, and a light breeze greeted us as we rode from my house to River Bends Park to poke around the new limestone path and some unofficial single track. Not long after entering the park we even ran into some other people we knew who were out enjoying the same trails.<\/p>\n<p>Heading back into the woods things were going well, until I ducked some overgrown brush and caught my head light. While I stayed on the bike, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niterider.com\/\">NiteRider<\/a> TriNewt stayed with the brush for a bit, breaking off the mount and apparently stretching the cable to uselessness. I was then left holding a non-working head light, roughly two miles into overgrown single track trails which were frequently bench cut along ponds. Thankfully the two people I was with rode behind me, so I was able to see well enough to make it out, even if some of those points involved ensuring that the front wheel was pointed at the narrow, dark shadow in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Once we made it back to the wider limestone \/ paved paths in River Bends things were much easier, and I was generally able to ride along next to people, using overflow light to see by. We were then able to finish up a nice loop, totaling ~17 miles. I&#8217;m quite lucky that I wasn&#8217;t out alone tonight, as a broken light six miles from home on trails would have meant lots of walking and not-safe riding.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll try contacting NiteRider about getting the light fixed. Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niterider.com\/warranty.shtml\">their warranty website<\/a> this should cost $30 in bench time, plus a new cable and light mount. I opened up the light briefly to check for broken solder points, but everything looked fine, so I suspect the cable. Since the cable and its strain relief is not something I can easily remold myself, I think I&#8217;ll just pay them to do it. Hopefully I can have it back quickly. Until then I will probably be using a borrowed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gas-discharge_lamp#High-intensity_discharge_lamps\">HID<\/a>, which should be interesting. There&#8217;s a reason why people are moving in droves to LEDs for bike headlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was a perfect night for a ride. Beautiful clear skies, upper 50s, and a light breeze greeted us as we rode from my house&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/my-niterider-trinewt-is-broken\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My NiteRider TriNewt Is Broken<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}