Grinder Review: Bar Mounted Lights Grouptest

Hope R4 LED

Price: £250

Hope markets the R4 LED on its versatility and that’s obvious as soon as you open the box, with mountings for handlebar, helmet and head harness all included. Smaller than last year’s Vision4 and offering 65% more light output, the R4 offers six light levels in two separate sequences aimed at Race and Trail needs. Race allows easy scrolling through the three high light settings, whilst the Trail sequence offers longer battery life and a flashing mode for commuting.

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Jenn Hill

Jenn Hill was the deputy editor here at Singletrack up until her untimely death from Lung Cancer in October 2015. She was and remains an inspiration to us all here at Singletrack. Jenn Hill - 1977-2015

Comments (0)

al December 6, 2011 at 5:52 pm

If you are going to set your videos as viewable only when embedded, could you at least make the video as large as possible? Ta.

ChippsChipps December 6, 2011 at 7:11 pm

It looks OK on my 23in screen. Yes it’s compressed, but this is the version that will appear in the digital issue, so we’re not promising HD. It’s not like you can’t see close up pictures of the lights on the internets, though this does help you see relative sizes and so on.

smudge December 6, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Thank’s Chipps & ‘headless’ Dave for an excellent review.

MarkMark December 7, 2011 at 12:49 am

View it on an iPad and you can maximise it full screen 🙂

macbrother December 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm

maxipad

Bikerat December 7, 2011 at 3:38 pm

stated as a little restrictive for fast riding off road, would it work well as a helmet light?

Bikerat December 7, 2011 at 3:48 pm

sorry, was refering to the lezyne light.

hilldodger December 7, 2011 at 6:29 pm

it works very well as a helmet light, proper mount isn’t out yet AFAIK but zip ties work OK – comparable to a joystick regarding output but does’t have the joysticks tech features

DaveDave December 7, 2011 at 10:29 pm

What Hilldodger said^^

theflatboy January 6, 2012 at 12:51 pm

i got one of these for Xmas and it included the helmet mount, just so you know.

theflatboy January 19, 2012 at 5:56 pm

sorry, didn’t realise these comments went on every page! i meant i got one of the XML lights.

peaton January 24, 2012 at 11:18 pm

Check out the Moon X Power 1500 lumens, great value from Wiggle for £120. just got mine today. Quality looks good too!

Sadoldsamurai February 14, 2012 at 1:45 pm

Hi, nice little reviews to the point as ever..a bit disappointed that you didn’t include the Ay-Up’s tho..any particular reason why they (Ay-Ups) were not tested?