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  • #52
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,805 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Or just turn your bike to face a wall with the light on
    I don't have a very bright front light (Cateye HL EL 510/520), as it's just for urban/dark park use, but I've always made sure the main spot hits the ground about two car lengths ahead of me. Seems to work ok.


  • #53
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,141 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Or just turn your bike to face a wall with the light on
    In my experience that's not a reliable test because it doesn't account for the vertical spread.


  • #54
    Puggy
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭Puggy


    This has been said before, and it seems to be constantly forgotten, but

    Legal roads lights have at least 2 settings. One often called dipped, lights up your side if the road, and when set correctly, will not be a hazard to on coming traffic. The other setting, can shine anywhere forward and be as bright as you can afford.

    I bought a feck off light on eBay, that can light up the down stairs of my house, almost like day time. There was no lense on the front. When I used it on the road, it blinded every other road user. In the city centre it light Pearse St up like Christmas time. Before I got to Tara St, 2 Garda cars had pulled up and asked where I got the light, as they wanted one. At Tara St the lights were red and a person crossing the road complained that they couldn't see the kerb, cause the light was so bright. That night,I bought a lens on eBay, for the Cree lamp I had.

    It's perfect, just like a dipped beam on a car. I didn't really appciate, that I was being a complete muppet before.

    You can't use a spotlight type beam on the road, your just being muppets. Road legal bicycle lights have a lens or the beam is focused.

    Off road is an entirely different matter, but if your cycling on the road, get the right lights and adjust them correctly.


  • #55
    TheTubes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭TheTubes


    I'm looking for a light for night cycling in unlit country roads.
    Went through this thread and the Cateye Volt 800 looks good.

    A friend recommended this light below to me and was wondering if anyone has experience of something like this, I think they are probably what you guys are referring to as generic ebay lights?

    http://www.candb-seen.co.uk/product-black-1200-lumen-bike-light-kit.html

    The appeal is that the external battery lasts over 8 hours (or so I've been told?) and that you can carry a replacement battery.

    Would this fall under the "stupidly bright" category some of you have mentioned?
    It comes with a Diffuser Lens if that makes a difference?

    From reading other forums this candb-seen.co.uk repackages chinese lights with UK plugs and offers replacement/support etc.

    Thanks!


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