I'm in for about £1200 with exposure stuff!!
I love the cable free design... and... I've crashed a load... the only thing you bust is the bar mount.
On a good day they'll just sent out another..
Helps they are just up the road!
DrP
The only downside to the Six Pack, is I now want my Diablo to be a sync model.
Different strokes for different folks. I have both in sync versions. Wished I'd saved a bit and got normal versions of both. I never got the remote(s) to be useful for me.
Also big exposure on the bars vs a Toro - very much depends on your riding for me. Toro is perfect for me on xc and "gravel". Great bit of kit. But on livelier stuff I really value the difference to 6-pack (although suspect Max-D would do me well).
Four4th have a wireless one as well that they just launched https://www.four4th.co.uk/collections/lights/products/gabriel. That said I prefer the Holy Moses with the battery under the bars.. you can choose the size and it takes seconds to fit.
I've been on exposures for about 12 years now. They are expensive up front, but if you do alot of night riding, the lack of external packs and messing about with accoutrements starts to stack up.
Repairs are totally viable and really reasonably priced too, including battery replacements, I guess because you've subsidised those costs up front at purchase; maybe.
Brightness of mtb lights is at a point now that I can no longer out-run my own vision so I've not felt the need to chase brightness for about 3 years.
I was out last night, Exposure Toro on the bars and cheap-as-chips 2-spot CREE on my head.
The Exposure is now in it'd 10th year but have noticed it's a bit lacking now compared to the CREE.
The CREE's I look on as 'consumables', and probably get 2-3 years out of them (and the battery), but have spares.
nickclift
Free Member^get this. End of thread
This. Got a Trail Evo and the light spread is far superior to my Exposure Maxx D. Does it blind anyone looking into it? No. Am I faster with it than the Exposure? Yes.
Oh, now those are interesting.
I ride pretty much exclusively at night in the winter. I eventually went for a MaxxD on the bars after dinging I could get it on cycle to work. It's been brilliant and a step above previous options going back about 25 years. I've a tired Exposure Joystick that's just been replaced by a Moon that takes (annoyingly) modified 198650 batteries. Id got it specifically because of 18650s - I have loads from a friend who gave me a bunch of old,lightly used Sony laptop batteries that turned out to contain some really high quality Sony cells.
If anyone has recommendations for 18650 flashlights that fit the Exposure helmet mount, I'm all ears!
I've been running a Gemini Titan for 6 winters now & after getting a new battery, it'll be more than adequate for a while yet.
I tried a Lezyne 500 lumen light on the helmet last year & this year replaced it with the 1000 lumen. Great light for not much money.
after dinging I could get it on cycle to work
This, I did not know!.
Exposure Maxx-d and Diablo here, messed with ebay cree's and their battery packs but wasn't happy, picked up the exposures last winter and they were great, cant wait to get out this winter with them.
So impressed with them, I've picked up some trace(r) for the road bike and will use the rear on the MTB.
Am keeping in using my gloworm x2 pair for offroad. Thankfully mark at mtb batteries fixed the switch on one of them.
Will use my ayup on my short commute as it is on a cycle path and well lit so don't need much light
I just got a Halfords 1000 to see if it has a better beam pattern than the 1600 which wastes too much light, IMO. It seems to, although I haven't ridden it yet, and it also seems to have the same size battery.
I have four Halfords light sizes and I am half tempted to fit them all to my bars at once.
@nobeerinthefridge - yep - it surprised me as well. It's Evans C2W, might not work on others but deffo worth checking
Wheres good for battery packs for magicshine type lights these days? Torchy still good? Any of the Chinese websites reputable-ish?
I've moved house and I can't find mine but the actual light units have turned up.
Dunno if torchy is still going, but smudge at MTBBatteries is.
@bentudder cheers, our C2W scheme only opens in March every year, I'll need to remember!
I'm about to stick a Magicshine 3500 in the classifieds if anyone's interested. Bought it in January. Tons of light and good burn time, but I think I'd prefer going back to all in one.
I’m about to stick a Magicshine 3500 in the classifieds
Interested...
Have pm'd you.
