Re: What year did you become a Flashoholic?
Thinking about this, really i bet most of us were kids! You pick any 4yr old boy(and probably girl) give them a torch to shine in the dark and i bet none would turn it down..............
Now funding is a problem at 4 :laughing:...........ok it is now!!!!
But if we had lots of pocket money and the choices "what do you want another torch for??? you have 10 already, get a batman figure instead!" I reckon our flashaholism would have reared its bright head a lot earlier for most!
Come the age of 16 and start of apprenticeship............and a certain mr snap on man in a very shiny spanner dressed interior tempted me to my 3D mag..........ooh £40 or about $65 of awesomeness at the time(well there was hardly much competition back then unless you wanted a plastic eveready ).
From then and till this day........and future days , i will always look at the lights in hiking /camping shops(usually with rolled eyes and a shake of the head at £40+ lights that are cr*p!.........but hey what a nicely lit glass display:shakehead)
Before here i had already kind of got a bit more with it......lenser the nitecore to find crazy names like olight and fenix. Searches that revealed the best torches in the world(well not quite :laughing: ) but definitely compared to ones i was looking at!!!
Searches later brought me here most of the time, till i gave in and joined..........rest is history..............just like my bank balance :laughing: