One day, LED bike lights will be available at a price normal/sane people can afford.
Powerful bike lights have always been stupidy overpriced. Firms like Lupine and their £780 headlights are a complete joke. I'm certain they could turn these out from their Far Eastern factory and sell on the high street at around £150 and still make a decent profit.
Trouble is, with people like my rich and mate who has two of these, they will keep on with their fat margin, low volume price model.
Matey bought the second because he mislaid the battery of the first one and literally couldn't be bothered to look for the original! He has a big house and his wife likes to ferret stuff away out of site (woman's tidying – where nothing is in it's logical place, just out of sight and all jumbled up). Call me misogynistic, I don't care! 😆
He ended up spending more on lights than he did on his bike!
I'm pondering whether to get a couple of LED MR11's and to rewire the lead on my Cateye's. The two 6v batteries would need to run in series, rather than in paralel, so I'd get 12V to supply the lamps. This would still cost me about £30 odd for the lamps though.