Do you ride with light? Any recommendation?
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A little update:
I bought the Knog Blinder 1 front and rear. they are "ok" for being seen, but not great. I would put them on the bike when I want to *feel* light.
I ended up also buying Lezyne 600XL front and strip drive pro for the rear, for when i need more light than 1 LED
For the Kong Blinder 1 is actually a great running light. I wear the white LED one on my finger when I run at night.
I bought the Knog Blinder 1 front and rear. they are "ok" for being seen, but not great. I would put them on the bike when I want to *feel* light.
I ended up also buying Lezyne 600XL front and strip drive pro for the rear, for when i need more light than 1 LED
For the Kong Blinder 1 is actually a great running light. I wear the white LED one on my finger when I run at night.
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I wouldn't go into recommendations yet (though I have some in mind which I've been using for the past 1-2 years and still going very strong).
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Currently using
Front: Lezyne Volt 450XL......good, bright, usb recharge, several modes...
Rear: cateye cheap-ish 2 mode one, have a See.sense icon rear light in the post
If you are still deciding, consider..
-Flare R from Bontrager
-See Sense Icon....original or + model. around 190 lumens...basically, its bright even in daylight and is apparently smart, changes intensity and frequency when headlights strike it or it feels braking/cornering....
-Exposure Flare R...75 lumens
-most expensive...Cycliq Fly6....30-40lumens but has a in built 720p camera....
30ish lumen isn't quite bright enough in daylight according to some but more than enough at night.
Front: Lezyne Volt 450XL......good, bright, usb recharge, several modes...
Rear: cateye cheap-ish 2 mode one, have a See.sense icon rear light in the post
If you are still deciding, consider..
-Flare R from Bontrager
-See Sense Icon....original or + model. around 190 lumens...basically, its bright even in daylight and is apparently smart, changes intensity and frequency when headlights strike it or it feels braking/cornering....
-Exposure Flare R...75 lumens
-most expensive...Cycliq Fly6....30-40lumens but has a in built 720p camera....
30ish lumen isn't quite bright enough in daylight according to some but more than enough at night.
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Lugan wrote:Some of these little cheap lights for daytime use are useless because they cannot compete for brightness against full summer sun. For that condition, I use a Dinotte Quad Red rear (mounted on my helmet in a visible way so I can bring it with me on every ride across 4 bikes) and a Quad Amber front on my main summer road bike. I run both at full blast in midday sun, and lower settings in lower light conditions. The goal for me is to be seen, for example, by someone pulling out of a driveway or street when I am hurtling down a curvy road at 40 MPH (front light), or to wake up a teenager coming up behind me on a climb while (s)he is texting on a mobile device and coming up behind me (rear light). For that, you need a super bright light that can compete with sun and catch attention through peripheral vision.
To be fair there aren’t many lights that can compete with the sun...
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I use these
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kdawg wrote:Lugan wrote:Some of these little cheap lights for daytime use are useless because they cannot compete for brightness against full summer sun. For that condition, I use a Dinotte Quad Red rear (mounted on my helmet in a visible way so I can bring it with me on every ride across 4 bikes) and a Quad Amber front on my main summer road bike. I run both at full blast in midday sun, and lower settings in lower light conditions. The goal for me is to be seen, for example, by someone pulling out of a driveway or street when I am hurtling down a curvy road at 40 MPH (front light), or to wake up a teenager coming up behind me on a climb while (s)he is texting on a mobile device and coming up behind me (rear light). For that, you need a super bright light that can compete with sun and catch attention through peripheral vision.
To be fair there aren’t many lights that can compete with the sun...
I use the "Lupine Rotlicht".... 160 Lumens
http://www.lupinenorthamerica.com/rotli ... llight.asp
http://road.cc/content/review/139414-lu ... rear-light
stockae92 wrote:A little update:
I bought the Knog Blinder 1 front and rear. they are "ok" for being seen, but not great. I would put them on the bike when I want to *feel* light.
I ended up also buying Lezyne 600XL front and strip drive pro for the rear, for when i need more light than 1 LED
For the Kong Blinder 1 is actually a great running light. I wear the white LED one on my finger when I run at night.
I have the 600XL too but found mounting it underneath my bars meant my knee hit it climbing out of the saddle. Lezyne do a little GoPro adapter that replaces the rubber mount and attaches to my K-Edge Garmin out front mount. Really clean.
http://www.lezyne.com/product-led-acc-g ... dfWpVtSyJA
kdawg wrote:Lugan wrote:Some of these little cheap lights for daytime use are useless because they cannot compete for brightness against full summer sun. For that condition, I use a Dinotte Quad Red rear (mounted on my helmet in a visible way so I can bring it with me on every ride across 4 bikes) and a Quad Amber front on my main summer road bike. I run both at full blast in midday sun, and lower settings in lower light conditions. The goal for me is to be seen, for example, by someone pulling out of a driveway or street when I am hurtling down a curvy road at 40 MPH (front light), or to wake up a teenager coming up behind me on a climb while (s)he is texting on a mobile device and coming up behind me (rear light). For that, you need a super bright light that can compete with sun and catch attention through peripheral vision.
To be fair there aren’t many lights that can compete with the sun...
It's all about the adventure .
I recently added the Ion 800 RT and Flare RT to my setup. They power on automatically when my Garmin 520 powers on, they switch to full headlight in dark situations (as determined by my Garmin) and have a functional side light. Also, they alert me on my head unit when they're going low.
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FWIW I have noticed a massive difference in the behaviour or automobile drivers when I use daytime lighting. Just a front white flasher and a red rear flasher - doesn't matter how good. Whereas cars used to start to pull out and then see me and hit the brakes, now they see me from the get-go and never even start to pull out. Also cars approaching from behind seem to give me a wider berth. This kind of response could be life-saving.
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Mr.Gib wrote:FWIW I have noticed a massive difference in the behaviour or automobile drivers when I use daytime lighting. Just a front white flasher and a red rear flasher - doesn't matter how good. Whereas cars used to start to pull out and then see me and hit the brakes, now they see me from the get-go and never even start to pull out. Also cars approaching from behind seem to give me a wider berth. This kind of response could be life-saving.
Also my experience over here in Canada/ BC!
I always ride now all the time, even in the summer at lunch with 200% sunlight, with the rear light flashing (Lupine Rotlicht) und also with the front light flashing when I am driving trough a city or where there are more cars and intersections.
I ride with the Bontrager Flare R and Ion 800. I can do fast training night rides with the Ion 800 in the front of my road bike and I also run the lights in strobe during the day. Not terribly heavy (they're lights and you're training, so weight shouldn't matter too much, but I didn't want to do something like run a battery pack), bright and small enough with a low footprint (my Ion 800 sits on a K-Edge pro Garmin mount underneath the Garmin because you can hook an Ion to a GoPro mount with a little adapter). Great lights.
Mr.Gib wrote:FWIW I have noticed a massive difference in the behaviour or automobile drivers when I use daytime lighting. Just a front white flasher and a red rear flasher - doesn't matter how good. Whereas cars used to start to pull out and then see me and hit the brakes, now they see me from the get-go and never even start to pull out. Also cars approaching from behind seem to give me a wider berth. This kind of response could be life-saving.
I have noticed this also. It's why I am a convert to daytime running lights.
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kdawg
thats how i got hit few weeks back, so much glare from sun that the drive
didn't see me. Im running lights on my bikes from this day forward.
I would say that you want a day light that is bright enough to catch
some ones attention (dual led blinking). Definitely not a night time light, but something
with a punch to be noticed.
my 2 cents
ns
thats how i got hit few weeks back, so much glare from sun that the drive
didn't see me. Im running lights on my bikes from this day forward.
I would say that you want a day light that is bright enough to catch
some ones attention (dual led blinking). Definitely not a night time light, but something
with a punch to be noticed.
my 2 cents
ns
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