"Flash Us" Forum Contest — Show us your lights!

[Tim Kelley]

Want to win a gift card? Now that it’s dark for many of our rides, BikeArlington wants to see your light setup for commuting! We are interested in compiling a photo gallery of the lighting systems and the reflective gear that people use while riding around the greater DC region.

So here’s how it will work:

• Take a photo of the view from your handlebars showing off how well your lights illuminate the road/trail.
• Grab a family member or friend and have them take a picture of you, while you’re on your bike, showing off how bright your lights are and reflective you and your bike are! We want shots from the front, side and back. (ProTip: Use a flash on your camera to make things pop!)
• Upload these pictures to this thread and let us know what kind of lights and reflective gear you have.
• In a week or two, we’ll do a random drawing of those who submitted their pictures and award two lucky winners each a $25 gift card to a local Arlington bike shop!

Any questions? Make it shine!

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[DCAKen]

My bike set up with a dynamo driven B&M IQ Cyo R and taillight. I also have mini blinkers on my helmet (front and rear) more for attention. In the picture, the headlight isn’t at full strength, but is showing the “standlight” intensity. I’m also wearing a reflective vest.

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Here’s a video of my light in action on the road and trail. As Starduster mentioned above, you can see the sharp cutoff of the shaped beam. Unfortunately, my GoPro doesn’t have great low light sensitivity, so it doesn’t catch the spilled light outside the main beam that I can see while riding. You can get a sense of that with the way the signs are lit up, though.

[Tim Kelley]

Last call for sharing your pictures! We’ll put an end date of Sunday (11/24) at midnight for entries and then we’ll do the drawing next week.

[americancyclo]

NiteRider MiNewt USB 250 (about three years old) on highest setting. I usually never go this bright except for the short portions of unlit W&OD in Falls Church City
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Road ID Rear light
Continental GP 4000 front tire with reflective sidewall
Pearl Izumi Gloves (from Bikenetic)
Canari Cycling Jacket (REI Attic Sale, 2007)
Pearl Izumi Winter cycling tights
Deuter Cycling Backpack
Specialized Saddle Bag
Specialized road shoes
Endura Shoe Covers (3 years old)
Bike Arlington reflective zipper pull
Bike Arlington reflective ankle band
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[eminva]

Exposure Diablo on highest setting:

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Diablo on medium setting:

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Diablo on low setting (note you can see the ambient light in the background — this was after 8 p.m. on Thursday):

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Here’s me. The jacket (Gore), gloves (Gore), seat post bag (Banjo Brothers) and trunk bag (Topeak) have some reflective bits. I added 3M reflective tape to various parts of the frame. Also, the Illuminite tights from my running days (at least ten years old) seem to still have some reflective oomph to them.

Please note the piece de resistance: the hi viz, light up ankle strap (Nite Ize). I have one on each leg, so motorists and zombies can see the lights bobbing up and down as I pedal (visible from all directions, I think). I have gotten lots of positive feedback on these.

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Liz

[Tim Kelley]

Okay, the contest is officially closed now. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos.

We’ve done a random drawing and the two winners for the gift cards are dcv and DCAken! Winners, please email us at info@bikearlington.com and we’ll work out the details.

[dcv]

@Tim Kelley 70172 wrote:

Okay, the contest is officially closed now. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos.

We’ve done a random drawing and the two winners for the gift cards are dcv and DCAken! Winners, please email us at info@bikearlington.com and we’ll work out the details.

hip, hip, hoorah! thanks BA

[DCAKen]

Thanks, BA! Although it’s preaching to the choir here, anything to get people (cyclists, runners, pedestrians) to be more visible at night is a good thing.

[Starduster]

New update to old thread. Why? New light!

Starting with the old light (B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo Plus) which was state of the art in 2011… And going to the B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo T Premium. Brighter emitter and revised optics. Same camera, same wide open ISO3200 exposure, same less-than-steady hand at speed. But look what is possible now! Off the same “lowly” 6v 3w side mount generator.

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[Starduster]

The beam is so wide that those are shadows from my bar end shifter cables.

Oh, same sharp cutoff on the beam to keep from blinding your fellow commuters.

[baiskeli]

Is it really a “gift” card if you have to win it? Isn’t that a “win card?”

I should write for Seinfeld.

[cyclingfool]

@Starduster 87931 wrote:

New update to old thread. Why? New light!

Starting with the old light (B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo Plus) which was state of the art in 2011… And going to the B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo T Premium. Brighter emitter and revised optics. Same camera, same wide open ISO3200 exposure, same less-than-steady hand at speed. But look what is possible now! Off the same “lowly” 6v 3w side mount generator.

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You have given me new reason to be super excited about saving up for my dynohub wheel build. I was happy with my 2011 vintage Cyo headlight, too, but this new one looks AMAZING!!!

[DCAKen]

@Starduster 87931 wrote:

New update to old thread. Why? New light!

Starting with the old light (B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo Plus) which was state of the art in 2011… And going to the B+M LumoTec IQ Cyo T Premium. Brighter emitter and revised optics. Same camera, same wide open ISO3200 exposure, same less-than-steady hand at speed. But look what is possible now! Off the same “lowly” 6v 3w side mount generator.

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This makes me want to upgrade!

[Starduster]

@DCAKen 87988 wrote:

This makes me want to upgrade!

There is this one, there is the Schmidt Edelux II (the updated IQ Premium optics with their trademark machined aluminum shell and glass lens, priced accordingly), and an even wilder pair from B+M- 2 Luxos models that, from pictures and photometrics I’ve seen, have an even wider beam at medium and close-in range. Imported and sold by *the* lighting geek, of course: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/

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