New Exposure lights spotted at Mayhem

Now that's a display

The chaps and chapesses at USE and Exposure Lights have been busy down in Petworth and they used the Original Source Mountain Mayhem to showcase some products and to do some sneaky testing of others…

First up is this, as yet unreleased, prototype Diablo headlamp. Using a multi-chip, four-LED P7 light unit, ribbed body and custom lens, it kicks out a claimed 700Lumens - as much light as an Exposure Enduro MaXx2 light, but with the convenience of head-mounted operation. The lens isn't final, but a sneaky lap with one by one of our team showed it to be one of the best mountain bike headlamps we've seen yet.

USE are now carrying the Sport Torque, torque wrench, sensitive enough for all those delicate stem bolts - the full kit is £110 and includes driver bits and a matching bottle opener. It'll be £80 or so without tool bits

Who knows when this will be out, but did spot it being worn by someone around camp. It's similar to the light that John Ross took to the Iditabike in Alaska this spring and is basically a split-apart Joystick with a separate battery on a headband. There's no release date on this one, but it's good to see Exposure Lights playing with different designs. We'll let you know more when we know.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (2)

anotherdeadheroanotherdeadhero July 2, 2009 at 11:20 am

basically a split-apart Joystick

Could it be called the Shaggy? Assuming they could resolve the complicated rights issues surrounding the name with the West’s finest endurance MTBer …

LeonLeon July 2, 2009 at 4:59 pm

will it come with a clip on beard?