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Friday night my Tikka saved my ass again. Riding along L. Wa. Blvd in Seattle in the dark on my bike going home to Bellevue my trusty NiteRider goes out. I forgot to charge it the night before and I was hating life. Luckily I had my Tikka in my backpack and it provided just enough light for me to get home without getting hit by a car. It is so small there is no reason not to take it.

Anyone have any similar stories?

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That is a dangerous stretch of road on a Friday night. I get off work sometimes as late as 1 or 2 in the morning and have had beer bottles and lit cigarettes thrown at me on my bike ( we have the same commuter route jon) by the punks in passing cars. If I didn't have on my Tikka maybe I would have gone unnoticed.Alpine K ....What kind of a car do you drive?

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Yeah that is a fun commute! This morning I had some chick honking at me, I won't repeat what I yelled at her. Then going over the montlake bridge I had some dude run into me not watching where he was going (and dumbshit wasn't wearing a helmet), unfortunately he decided to run into the wrong guy and I pretty much flattened his ass cause i had no where to go. He's lucky he fell off his bike where he did or he would have gone into oncoming traffic.

Bronco I guess the Tikka helps the girbel see where he's goin huh [Wazzup]

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you know i used to be skeptical about the Tikka. Then I got one as early Xmas present. Now I love the Tikka. Tikka is so light weight and pretty useful. put it in your pocket and carry it up the route. I wonder how good it will be for night bushwacking though because the light does not go as far as my old Zoom. But i see that Petzl is discontinuing the 4.5V flat-battery model Zoom. too bad because those batteries are $3CDN at MEC and $7 US in the States. I always take a box with me while road trippin and fund my road trip.

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I used one around the Hostels up in the Rockies and realized that this little things throws off a ton of light. I also left it in the truck overnight (-27 deg c) and it still worked fine in the cold.

I will be using it more this summer for those unplanned night descents!

One thing to note is the illumination does fall off quick once the batteries get low, but I have yet to experience that.

Dan E.

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