with all the excitement about bargain bike lights, check out this tweet

act now to get our super bargainous bike lights before the price goes up (to just bargainous)
http://www.roughrideguide.co.uk/Bike-Lights.html

Not to sure about the bargain – maybe worth paying a bit more to get from the uk …..
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mj-836-ha-iii-ssc-p7-2-mode-900-lumen-led-bike-light-set-4-18650-44676

Just bought one of those from DX.
Good light. Sems brighter than my 808 though nominally the same. Battery pack weighs half as much again as the 808.
The bar clamp supplied required modding (came loose 3 times on the one ride I’ve used it for).
Oh, and the ‘low’ setting doesn’t work. Remains on full.
I’ll be sending it back for warranty once the evenings are light.

Oh, and the ‘low’ setting doesn’t work. Remains on full.

Are you sure? I’ve got one of those Spokebloke Owlet lights (basically a re-badged Magicshine) and initially thought the same thing, but it takes quite a few seconds to dim down to the low setting.

yeah i thought the same thing re lower setting, but it dims slowly – hard to notice it doing so.

Ooh – rushes off to try …………..

You are indeed correct, it does dim over a few seconds.
Excellent. Ta. 🙂

so is that now roughrideguide* spokebloke, magicshine uk and deal extreme – and they are kicking off a price war

this made me smile

*For proper off road riding you really need a…