@fifeandy – I had the U2 mini. Great light, easy to replace batteries (so can easily carry a spare). Quite floody for a torch style light, high low and strobe

Used it on the road for a bit but it’s potentially too floody for that. Also used it on light off road stuff too

Upgraded lights all round meant that it was a backup that wasn’t needed so sold it on.

If you’re looking for a cheap light then I’d recommend it, easy to remove from the mount too (i.e. so you can leave your bike)

Any feedback on the gloworm CX would be appreciated

My main gripe about all the external battery pack lights is the ludicrous amount of cable from head unit to battery!

Battery on top tube, light on bars I reckon I need 6 inches max, yet they give me 6 foot and no neat way of shortening it.

What do you guys do with all that cable?

Looped and attached to the top of the velcro lid. Easy

Cable ties would work no?

I can really see the appeal in an all in one unit like an exposure. But the jump in price from a Lumenator to a Maxx D is huge. Do I hate wires THAT much…….?

I bought a light from Torchy in the sale last year. I’ve fallen off, dropped it in puddles, bashed it against gates and it refuses to die. It’s stronger than my bike, I think. Never had it fail on me and I always forget to fully charge it.

I recently bought the Torchy BK 7even but with dialysis etc I haven’t had the inclination to go out at night yet! Rest assured I will report in due course! 😆 What I can say is that the build quality is fantastic and its chuffing bright!

From Torchys website

Somebody needs to hurry up and buy that alpkit hardon and let us know if its any good. Need to be pretty impressive to justify £100 (that’s about 8 solarstorm 2s)… 😉

alpkit

gloworm cx trail has arrived and charging up.

impressed with the build and quality and seeing as its 400lm brighter than my x1 it should be awesome.

and no leads.

Jambo, Where did you order your CX Trail from?

Whats the output?

via ebay but it came from don at kustom cycles. £135 posted.

claimed output is 1400lm edit: 1300lm for 2.5hrs which is about as much as I ride at night. In previous tests gloworm have understated their output so I tend to believe them.

what is nice, is the internal battery is really easy to swap (its shipped with it in the wrong way round to prevent discharge) so if they sell the batteries as spares it would be dead easy to carry a 2nd.

comes fitted with with a garmin quarter turn mount, but I bought it for the garmin mount as my new montaro lid has one built in. 4 screws to swap it over.

anyone want to buy an X1?

ps. manual is online which gives a fair bit of info.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/czbn2m57r4sxwab/CX%20Trail.pdf?dl=0

I have a Troutie Liberator, an MTB Batteries lumenator (or whatever it’s called, a solarstorm and an exposure joystick. Not used all at once though 🙂

First two are great, battery died on the solartstorm but I got an mtb batteries one as a replacement. I bought the joystick last year and going cable free really is great. Probably buy the exposure road light this year for commuting.

Good job jam bo, appreciate the update.
The programmable settings look pretty complex, however, the factory setting look about spot on.

Dunno looks like there are different setting for wide/wide etc. According to the instruction there’s a spare set of optics but don’t know if it’s the same as the one that’s fitted.

I’m about to unleash the Mk-9 Maxx-D. Well I will be when it goes dark. Going to try it with the reflex setting first but reckon I’ll just end up switching between the ‘burn the trees night-sun’ and ‘take as little power as possible’ settings.

Does anyone have recommendations for (budget) enclosed units, that don’t have the exposure price tag? (Deserved as it may be)

Jam Bo, are you using anything on the bars?

What’s the size and weight like on the glow worm cx? Looks quite a chunky unit in comparison to the exposure lid mounts

Light complete with montaro mount that clips in is 240g. I need to look the garmin quarter turn mount option to see if that can work as a lower profile option. all depends if the angle is right as you’d lose the angle adjustment you get with the GoPro mount.

for £500+ i’d be very disappointed if a Maxx-D/Diablo combe wasn’t bloody good.