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Friday Schwag Grab Blackburn Flea lights: we have the winners!

It's back! the nights are drawing in so grab yourself some cool lights.....

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.

You can read more about the Blackburn Flea lights here

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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the-daily-ripper | 14 years ago
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I hope they would cure my leprosy.

I hope to be able to find out.

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oldspikey | 14 years ago
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I would be beaming with delight and itching to get riding with a set of fleas, count me in !!  1

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amotty | 14 years ago
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Light, bright keep me riding all night...come on.

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stevevfr | 14 years ago
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After 15 years off the bike I am back and really want a set so I can train through the winter. Please

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grant | 14 years ago
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Nice bit of kit.

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11teeth | 14 years ago
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may the gods of chance shine their shiny nice lights on my humble form this very afternoon come tiffin time.

*stands from kneeling*

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gazzaputt | 14 years ago
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As dedicated weight weenie fleas would help in my quest to be as light as bee or should that be flea?

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bugman-bofh | 14 years ago
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as they said in Gremlins
"arrr Brightlight Brightlight"
I want some to shine in drivers rear view mirrors
my 650 lumen wolf eyes flashlight will continue to illuminate the road ....  19  19  19

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n1cck | 14 years ago
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It's a rather dull Friday in my redundancy hit office and I'm paying little attention to whats going on around me when i feel a hand on my shoulder, its my boss, she says 'erm, whats this?' In my half asleep panic stricken state and hoping she takes pity on me, i reply 'I'm on a bike website leaving a post in a vain attempt to win some lights'. At least if this post goes against me in the '5 reasons why i should keep my job' sweepstakes I'll have some lovely lights to show for it.......

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Clink | 14 years ago
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oh yes, yes, yes - light my way!

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BananaDrama | 14 years ago
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these are fleas I'd like to have

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wors | 14 years ago
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look nice on my bike B)

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pjt201 | 14 years ago
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me please!

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poppa | 14 years ago
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Consider this story to be commented upon by my good self, with the greatest passion.

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john-o | 14 years ago
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my fleas are afraid of the dark, so these would be ace. surely it's tiffin time now?

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kelvin | 14 years ago
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Nice idea. Do they work?

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radar | 14 years ago
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THANK YOU!  4

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sc129806 | 14 years ago
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I want to be a flea flasher. Count me in please  1

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GIANT Dave | 14 years ago
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Very neat design. Nice.

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tommyketchup | 14 years ago
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I wouldn't kill a flea for them lights  10

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The Great Cornholio | 14 years ago
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Cool............ B)

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osanago | 14 years ago
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I could really have done with these on Sunday morning at 5.30am when I was cycling home in the rain from my parents cause my husband had gone out on the piss & 'lost' his keys!!!!

Osa

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peterwood | 14 years ago
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I've seen the light

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spicypedro | 14 years ago
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I'd love a set. Count me in.

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woody | 14 years ago
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I feel such a fool for having needlessly carted round batteries for so long! Please count me in.

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RobT | 14 years ago
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Roadmen are too busy with their noses on the front wheel to notice what lights they are using and MTBers wouldn't notice the weight difference on their super heavy alu tanks. A Super-light-Bromptonaut would truly appreciate these little delights. Therefore they're mine! P.S Do these lights fold up?

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nobled | 14 years ago
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Shine on me!

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finbar | 14 years ago
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I got cautioned by the police for riding without lights once... can i have them please?

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kaz | 14 years ago
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Flea lights, rechargeable ones, didn't I hear that you can re-charge things whilst riding? I'm sure that when I was a lad I had something called a dynamo, do they still exist?

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mspoke | 14 years ago
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Who'd have thunk I'd need lights in July, but yes, the weather is so bad I do really need these...

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