Headlamp and Flashlight from Costco. Both rechargeable. Flashlight claims 1000 Lumen, lamp 400. Anyway, it's bright enough for commuting and riding trails.
I've ridden singletrack in the dark, it's a different world. Especially in the woods when you are outrunning the lights 🤟🏾😂.
I've broken too many $80++ "Cycling Lights"! And definitely been left in the dark by Lezyne and their fear of the cold. I like Fatbikes in Winter, and Manitoba is often minus -20C. It gets way colder, but that my lungs limit. These have the advantage of cheapness and multiple units per package so swapping out the rechargeable battery is super simple.
I might use more Zipties than I like, but in the grand scheme of our wasteful Capitalist Economy, I hardly lose sleep about it.
by Wonderful_Tourist883
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The people on bikes riding the opposite direction from you hate it, too. My light with a cut-off lens cost about $50.
Not a great idea for riding in traffic, though – and that includes pedestrians or cyclist traffic. Torches have circular beam patterns, so you’ll be blinding incoming traffic unless you turn them down to the point where they’ll be useless at providing vision for you.
A decent headlight should have a proper cut-off and be mounted at a slight downward angle (rule of thumb dictates 1% decline, although 2% are more than okay at bicycle speeds while compensating for the shorter wheel base on rough terrain).
This one simple hack!
If it works for you, go for it…
I’m more of a buy once, cry once kind of guy… Still have a $400 Exposure joystick from the early LED days (2010?) that can get me to work as part of a team.
I’ve also got no shame in buying discontinued things (based on USB standard changes) from other high end brands like light and motion.