Ideally something head mounted, and with a AA battery pack, but tell me what you've got and i'll see what I think.
Happy with not that much light if it's cheap and less faffy. Used to run a fenix AA torch on head and bars, including for some racing, and that did me fine. I liked the no wires + simple lockblock mounting.
try a cree torch off eBay. I got a 300 lumen one for 6 quid then taped it to my helmet - it fits really well in the central top groove. Does me fine, waterproof, self contained, light, cheap & bright enough for 6 quid. 3 x AAA by the way.
Rob don't happen to have a link do you for the £6 one?
Bump for the morning just-got-to-work-coffee-and-stw crowd..
Cree double AA torch thing from www.dealextreme.com - 200 lumens
Would post my model but can't find it amongst the 100s they have available!
Ah but the thing is which one? I have an ultrafire 606, but it's not great as it's a bit heavy compared to my (dead) fenix L2d and I like having the low modes too.
Got a specific recommendation?
ah just edit my previous post to say I couldn't find mine - too many to look through
it also runs on a tiny Li-ion cell making the whole thing weigh nothing 🙂
Ah, I have an older one of those, found it a bit heavy though (with 2*AA). What sort of battery life you getting out the CR2?
I carry it as a backup light in my camelback, never used it in anger (yet)....
Well, if you've rechargable CR2s, care to try it out for a burn time test?
Though don't leave it on indoors, might overheat.
I was thinking about this the other night while wearing my helmet light for the first time for a while.
I currently have a Tesco 3w torch in a Joystick mount which works great but its quite heavy so was thinking about getting something that would be lighter (and if possible brighter, but that might be being fussy).