Lighting Advice

[luvmypwds]

Good (and brave of you) for you for venturing out even in the dark. It's going to be a while before I work up to that! I find biking in broad daylight scary, let alone night time. I am really quite intimidated by traffic I have to say.

[Becky]

Watch www.chainlove.com. They occasionally post some killer deals on bike lights there, like a Light & Motion Vega for $75 (normally ~$200)!

Good lights are, IME, a worthwhile investment. I love this bike light "shoot out": http://eddys.com/page.cfm?pageID=493. It really defined for me what I was getting by spending more, and what I could expect. The shootout pics show the Cateye EL-520 to be pretty darn bright- might be a really good choice!

Good luck shopping!

[Flur]

You should do a search of the forums for headlight, lights, lighting, etc. I found a lot of info from that when I was looking for a headlight for my bike.

[alpinerabbit]

Knog bullfrogs?

I'd love something with a rechargable module but the one I once bought lasted maybe a season of recharging before the battery was dead.

[wildhawk]

Thanks everyone! We are going to some LBS this afternoon and check out some lights. Nice day for it too since we have a 40% chance of rain today, but 10% on Sat. and Sun. We switched our bike ride until tomorrow.

[PscyclePath]

Knog bullfrogs?

I'd love something with a rechargable module but the one I once bought lasted maybe a season of recharging before the battery was dead.

I've tried the Bullfrog... It's more along the category of a "be seen" light than a "see where you're going" light. Now, you can ride home with the derned thing, but you need to go pretty slow so as not to out-ride the distance the light lets you see in front of you.

Those little blinky "frog" lights are pretty good... I use one on blinky mode as sort of a daylight running light, and as an added bit of visibility after dark. I've ridden home with one of those as the front headlight, too... and recommend a much bigger light for safety & peace of mind. That was another reason for strapping two of those Cateye 320s up front... if one goes out, you've still got a reliable light to get home by.

Tom

[sfa]

Good lights are, IME, a worthwhile investment. I love this bike light "shoot out": http://eddys.com/page.cfm?pageID=493. It really defined for me what I was getting by spending more, and what I could expect. The shootout pics show the Cateye EL-520 to be pretty darn bright- might be a really good choice!

Good luck shopping!

Great link--thanks!

[Becky]

The rechargeable LED L&M Vega is back up on chainlove.com. Only $75....get 'em while they last!

[TsPoet]

Dinotte are the best LED lights out there, and they are having one of their sales (~$100), these lights are small, easy to deal with AA batteries and the work great.
http://store.dinottelighting.com/sha...unt2=792716622

[Zen]

I like that Eddy's bike Shop page.

I just bought a light but may get one of these