Bike Lights

[OneEighth]

Rather fortuitous that this thread popped back up. I use a Stella and was pleased with it until yesterday morning when it started turning itself off despite having a fresh charge and not being run on high. That’s less than one year’s life. I just can’t recommend them after that. Nothing worse than playing in traffic at 0-dark-thirty and having no light up front.

[CCrew]

@OneEighth 7171 wrote:

Rather fortuitous that this thread popped back up. I use a Stella and was pleased with it until yesterday morning when it started turning itself off despite having a fresh charge and not being run on high. That’s less than one year’s life. I just can’t recommend them after that. Nothing worse than playing in traffic at 0-dark-thirty and having no light up front.

N+1 silly

[Dirt]

I’ve got two endurance rides in the next month or so… both of which will require some serious light duration, rather than power. I’m going to be investing in Exposure’s add-on batteries to boost the run time on the lights I’ve already got. That should get me the kind of run time that I need.

[OneEighth]

@CCrew 7175 wrote:

N+1 silly

True, true.
You’d think I would have taken that to heart by now.

[DaveK]

Update – When I got home Friday I found a much-updated Magicshine battery pack waiting for me at the door. I charged it overnight and I am still in my house and not currently on fire.

[MCL1981]

Could the generator be connected in parallel to a battery?

[ronwalf]

Anyone else have light creep? First I had my 1/2 watt Blaze and superflash. Nice light for the rear, but the 1/2 watt Blaze is a bit anemic for a front light.

Then I got a dynamo and a IQ Cyo (plus tail light), but I kept the blaze and superflash as supplemental blinkies. Life was good, and this setup sorta made sense.

Then I bought lights for my wife – a Romisen RC-N3 flashlight and mount (bright, but not the best optics for cycling), and a Radbot 1000 (same mount as a Superflash, good for interchangeability!) for the rear.

I decided my wife wasn’t biking enough so I confiscated them. Now I’m up to three headlights up front, 2 tail lights and carrying a spare. Now I’m pondering helmet lights….

[americancyclo]

Next you’ll be investing in yards of LightTape to sew on to your clothes!

[Riley Casey]

Ain’t no such thang as too much light – or too much reflectivity. Helmet lights really do rule particularly in tandem with handle bar light. I can ride pretty much as fast at night as in the day on relatively bad suburban streets and on the unpaved section of the CCT now that I have both. Highly recommended, +1, etc.

[KLizotte]

This is an updated article about the best lights available according to their tests. Has some helpful website links to other comparison sites as well.

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-commuter-bike-lights/

[mstone]

@KLizotte 142215 wrote:

This is an updated article about the best lights available according to their tests. Has some helpful website links to other comparison sites as well.

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-commuter-bike-lights/

<-- my face when the article devotes more attention to how pretty their top choice is than to the beam shape Don’t be surprised if you piss people off riding the trails with a high aimed round beam. They may even rant through a whole thread at you.

[dplasters]

Anyone know of headlights that use a mount to get them off of the cockpit? I’m only aware of three, Specialized Elite and Expert and the Garmin Varia. Surely there are other options.. right?

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