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Refunded anyway.
Ravemen PR1200 ordered for £76.50 which I should have done in the first place.
Cheers bent udder 👍🏻
I know what people saying about defeating the object but I would use it without the wire most of the time. But if I did want to go for a longer ride I alwasys have a power bank in my pack which I could utilise. I have loads of the magishine copies but the fact that the bikehut one comes with GoPro mount will be spot on for my helmet and less wobbly than my current light.
Black Friday deals on all these BikeHut lights...
https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-lights/bike-lights?brand=Bikehut&pageNo=1&pageSize=21&sort=price_for_ranking+desc
that's annoying.. wonder if I could exchange my 500 for the 1000. More for the extended battery than the light, the 500 on full blast is plenty for what I need.
Just bought the 1600 light and remote for £40! Bargain!
For a nice secure fit is it best to get the hope mount from CRC then? Not fussed about the light being out front so to speak.
Bargain
I just bought a £3 go pro bar mount from eBay. Not QR but super sturdy which is what the light needs
Aaargh, it is such a bargain but do I need one????????????????
Worth a punt for £35, even if I only use it on the road bike!
For a nice secure fit is it best to get the hope mount from CRC then?
Yes!
I absolutely don’t need this / another light, but for £35 it’s so tempting.......
£31.50 here with light10 discount code...
https://www.cyclerepublic.com/bikehut-1600-lumen-front-light.html
Even better! Cheers, ordered 🙂
Does anyone use the 1000 lumen on their lid? Is it too heavy or ideal to be helmet mounted?
Ta
Silly cheap.
I’ve clearly for a problem - I just ordered one even though I don’t need it!
Curious to compare it to the Ryder Alumia 1600 also available from cycle republic that I already have.
Well I tried mine out in the living room last night. Just cycling through it would appear the Cateye I'm replacing was roughly outputting the same as the emergency setting.
As someone said lights have come a long way, frankly the fact you can split hairs on a light with this output and price bracket says how much!
Curious to know whether a 1000 or 1600 would be best as a helmet light to compliment a 1600 on the bars?
perhaps a tad excessive but assuming two 1600s on the bars and a 1000 on the lid is overkill?
perhaps a tad excessive but assuming two 1600s on the bars and a 1000 on the lid is overkill?
Do you regularly ride near a collapsed star or in an environment entirely covered in black velvet?
Does anyone use the 1000 lumen on their lid? Is it too heavy or ideal to be helmet mounted?
Curious to know whether a 1000 or 1600 would be best as a helmet light to compliment a 1600 on the bars?
They both weigh the same so cost* (was) the only difference.
250g
Mine wasn't too heavy the other night for a 2 hr ride on the helmet of an 8st girl to cope with but this being STW I'm sure some middle aged man will cohime in to disagree.
*at £31 it's a no-brainer which to choose
Haha,
Right then. One 1600 on the bars and one on the lid. Job jobbed.
But imagine 3200 lumens on the bars with a 1000 lumen spot on the helmet. Would be epic and all for under £100 right now......
I ordered one of these for the MIL, but i was so impressed with it I’ve just ordered another for myself.
great, even at the full rrp, superb for £35.
Anyone got the out in front mount working with a wahoo? I've just epoxyed on a mount in the correct orrentation. I'll find out if it worked in 12 hours time....
Couldn't see any combo metal mounts on fleabag that would work with a wahoo.
Can you imagine the conditions in a factory that can produce this type of light and sell it to the west for a price that still allows Halfords to discount it to this degree and make a margin.
But anyway....4800 lumens eh!
Picked one of these up today for £31.50 with BC discount. Was going to be for the wife but really impressed with it on first impressions. I’ve been using an Evolva which I’ve been really happy with but on the full power setting, this looks a bit brighter with a wider flood. Only slight concern is battery life. The Evolva lasts forever but this suggests only 1 hour on full. Will have to do a bit more of a comparison.
You shouldn't need it on full much though!
@ewan I'm planning to do the same re: Wahoo. Apparently if you cut 1mm or so off the gaps on a Garmin mount and rotate 90 degrees it works, but this would mean drilling new holes and using a nut and bolt.
Jb89 - my epoxy didn't work (probably the plastic types). I reverted to something slightly more getto. Drilled a hole in the middle of a whaoo mount, counter sunk, and stuck a small screw in it. I was then worried it might not be stable enough with rotation, so I countersunk one of the wahoo mount bolt holes and stuck a small screw through that as well.
Used it this morning, everything seemed pretty solid. Its a bodge, but it's a bodge that should last a loooong while.
Managed to get the last one at my local Halfords. Great looking beasty specs wise.
Can anybody help with the charging LED status please?
Mine is sitting with one LED flashing when I try and charge it (from a 2A charger).
Actually, as I type the LED has gone solid and the next one up is flashing, so I guess it is a charge capacity thing?
As it's too late to edit my above post, in case anybody is wondering - what I concluded at the end of the above appears to be right. It is now on two solid LEDs and the third (of four) blinking as it nears another full bar.
So I picked up my Bikehut 1600 light today. First thoughts are it didn’t come with the remote mentioned on previous posts - but that doesn’t bother me at all.
Its a chunky beast and pretty heavy - will be interesting to see how stable it is on the bars off road. I pooped it on the road bike on my way home today - ran it on one from the least powerful on the road then full power on the unlit towpath I have to go along. Plenty of light - ultimate brightness vs my 600 lumen moon vortex pro didn’t blow me away but it’s much more of a flood and slightly warmer in colour.
When I got home I tried to take 4 pictures of my 600 lumen vortex vs 900 lumen vortex pro vs 1600 lumen Ryder Alumia vs Bikehut 1600. Didn’t work well as I didn’t have a long enough dark area and it was raining.
Initial thoughts are the Alumia (also cycle republic stocked) has a more stable handlebar mount, feels lighter and marginally brighter / more light output.
The bikehut 1600 has a better low battery warning system and feels very solidly built (heavy)!
Need to do some off road comparisons over the next few weeks of the 1600 lumen lights, but thinking if I put both on the bars I can run full power on one of them until it runs out then run the other on full power so I’ve always got maximum light on the trails.
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The shroud on the micro USB port on mine came off with the charging cable on Sunday. Conveniently, the Halfords in Dorking closed the other week. Bums. Dropped into the branch near work on Wednesday and swapped it out for a new one in about five minutes flat, thanks to some helpful staff who took one look at it and went straight over to the display to fetch a replacement for me.
The remote is an extra, by the way - £5. Mikey's 3d printed switch housing (now at V3) is well worth a go - I find it much easier to use with my miniature thumbs.
Weightwise, mine's less than the BT40s + battery enclosure it replaced, and a decent mount means it's not shifted once while bouncing off bumpy things so far.
Pics of Mikey's enclosures when I work out how to use Pinkbike to host images from Dropbox...
Is there a link to the 3d remote, can you buy one?
Hey Merak, Mike's adventure starts upthread a bit here:
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bikehut-1600-light/page/3/#post-10306361
damn they are cheap now but Halfords are claiming they should be £60...pretty sure they were not on offer at £50 when I bought one.
I picked up a 2nd brand new from ebay with a voucher a few weeks ago which ended up costing me £35 posted, I was going to fit the second to my helment and tbh it should be fine for that but for £28 I think the smaller one would be more sensible.
For the money it is cost effective and weight effective (as well as good redundancy) to buy 2 of these rather than a more expensive unit with a large separate battery and swap them over mid ride. I've been using them as general torches and I am getting more like 1.5hrs on full power.
noticed an odd one today. Put my light on charge in the car and it killed the DAB reception. Unplugged it and the DAB came back on.
Not had any problems using the same USB charger (Aukey) on my phones for the last 2 years so wondering if it's something to do with the internal battery conditioners.
Just had an email from Halfords and these lights are on offer at £35
So I've finally reserved the 1000 Lm version and a remote for pickup, will fetch Thurs or Friday this week probably.
I can't help thinking 1600 is probably just over gunning things a bit and 1000 might just be the "sweet spot" i.e. sufficient output for on/off-road use (I was pretty happy with "900" lumen P7s a few years ago and seldom run lights on full), better runtime for having one less LED than the 1600?, a smidgen cheaper than the 1600, but barely any more pricey than the 500.
I've a plethora of go-pro mounts for both bar and lid including a stem mounter OF garmin mount with a go-pro mount on the underside already on the road bike, so I can play with the mounting options on several of my other bikes...
The main draw for me is the remote option TBH that is a big selling point IMO, that and it being a self contained unit.
still not sure about lid mounting it though, my old solar storm X2 will doubtless be less weight on the lid for similar output, just with a annoying cable tot he back pocket, and I have found even a little bit of extra mass on the lid over a long enough period will do your neck in...
My old SS X2s are a fair bit less bright on full than the 1000lm setting on the bikehut 1600
Runtime on the bikehut 1600 at 1000lm seems to be about the same as the bikehut 1000lm light
Plus someone on here weighed the 1000 at about 250g. pretty much the same weight as as the 1600.
I'd just buy the 1600 it's £31 now with BC discount.
it hasn't done anyone who's worn mine on their helmets neck in
Hey chaps, which mount do I need to fit to a Bell super GoPro mount?
It should bolt straight on to the Bell Go Pro Mount, the light comes with a Go Pro connection already.
Are those weight measurements correct? A similar sized Lezyne 2 light is about 150g. The 1600 is not too heavy for a helmet but something a bit lower profile would be good.
Be interested to know what the run time is? the 1000 looks like it could be good for evening rides on the road.
I've got the 1000. It's superb. I use it off road but on decent paths without roots/rocks/big cambers. (Someone shouted at me last night because it was too bright.)
My standard evening ride is 1hr30 and after that it's still showing 2 hours left. (Used on 'full beam' for half the ride, lower settings for the rest)