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Remember the chances of coming across an axe wielding psychopath are very rare. To reduce the possibility to zero carry an axe with you. The chances of two axe wielding psychopaths in the same woods are so high as to be virtually impossible.
Helmet Mounted Light.............
but only if it is an LED light (Specifically a Joystick...it's the only one I've tried).
I found that a halogen Niterider and a halogen Lupine both reflect off rain and snow too badly to be of real use in poor conditions as a helmet mounted option. The Joystick seems not to suffer from this problem, and it also seems to cut through the water more effectively to show the ground beneath on lakeland tracks when they turn into a stream.
i think tesco might have run out of the AA torches. anyone know of an equivalent?
those DX lights look great.
and at that price, seems daft no to.
thought:
reviews say its a fair flood, im guessing this would mean riding without a lid light would be easier. (i rode bikeradar with a 900lumen hope light on low mode without any problems at all)
i guess the cheaper "torch" one wont last as long in the battery department?
i was thinking, for the price of one of the bike ones, one could get one of the torch ones, and a whole heap of spare batterys?
could be mounted quite nicely under the stem with a bit of crafty zip tieing and mount making?
and then combine it with a slimmer helmet mounted one of the same make?
Isn't the Hope basically a very very expensive version of the £10 torches that you buy from dealextreme? Which conveniently run off AA batteries, and are an all in one package.
Show me a £10 light that outputs 240 lumens!
In response to Joe the hope led1 is fine for running. I ran the adidas thunder run 24 hour this year using one an had no vision issues!
The cable is one piece so if using on the helmet the pack must also be used on the helmet.
Flood on bars for me seems to work just fine...
I've got two 900lmn DX lights, one on my head and one on the bars. If I had to choose, i'd go helmet every time. But to be honest just spend the extra, it is so much better with two. You don't need too powerful a one on your head really, just enough to give you a hint on the corners.