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All reviews I've read about the light seems pretty good so do I invest my £55 or so?
No. It's a really narrow tight spot beam and its not that bright. It would work as a helmet light, but with 4xAA cells its too heavy and bulky to mount.
Also there's no warning that the battery is low, it just cuts out. I've a few sets of batteries, all last slightly different times due to age / use / capacity, so I change them all every 1h30mins to be safe.
Except I don't, because I only use it for commuting now. A £12 torch I bought on dealextreme uses only 2 AA batteries, is brighter, and slowly dims rather thann just cutting out.
The Hope is both underpowered and awkward to use.
i'll second what [b][i]dmjb4[/i][/b] said, very tempermental prone to just cutting out, only use as a commuter or stick it in my pack as a emergency light, got a dx magicshine for the same(ish) price and it puts the hope to shame.
What they said ^^^
No real use for proper off road riding but great for commuting and road riding...
I have one that i run as a bar mount with 2800 mah NIMH's.
It gives full power for a 45 min each direction commute.
I also run a blinker and a few 100 lumens on my helmet.
It's just extra. For a while i used to run it with a blinker on the bars and it was fairly effective.
Other lights are available, and are more versatile.
I have one for sale if you are still keen, chrispuppet. Email in profile, pics if you want. Used ~10 times, with box and all the mounts, £50 (w. special delivery)?
It is a wee bit too heavy for helmet mounting, but not too bad. I mainly used it as a helmet light.