I know (another blumin topic on lights)

[westy04]

Hiya

I've done a fair amount of research on lights, but I'm now stuck on which of 2 lights to buy.
The lights will be used for my 10 mile each way commute to work via a 50:50 split of road and bridle paths (lots of very dark nasty narrow tunnels).
I will also need them for single track work (nothing too demanding).

The lights are:

Hope Enduro LED (universal mount). Which I understand has 2 batteries.

Exposure Race Maxx.

The Race Maxx has the higher output of 480 Lumens over the Hopes 300 lumens.

Any recomendations would be extremly welcome.

Ta

Kevin

[pdV6]

Either will do you proud. For simplicity's sake, the Exposure might be the winner as you need to physically swap the batteries on the Hope to get the total runtime. However, that does mean you can leave one on charge whilst using the other.

The other thing is that the Exposure will run for ~10 hours @240 lumens which would probably be plenty of light for most of your commute.
(The Exposure @480 lumens is done at 3h and the Hope @300 lumens is 1h45 per battery)

The Hope universal mount bolts on, whereas the Exposure has a QR setup. Which is best for you I guess depends on how secure your bike parking is at work.

You pay your money and take your choice!

Edited by pdV6 on Thursday 18th October 11:29

[hugh_]

I had a hope led (not enduro, but it is literally just another battery). Burn times were good, ~2.30 so slightly over quoted, but way higher if you're prepared to switch between medium and high settings. However, I was dissapointed with its penetration, the first 20m were night into day, but beyond that it wasnt much cop for seeing things.

So it depends what you want, if its single track and you've got a helmet mounted spot, then its a fantastic flood; if you're commuting and you want to be seen, its fantastic; but it's not that good for flying down unlit back roads at anything above 20-25mph, you just can't see enough.

HTH

Edited by hugh_ on Thursday 18th October 20:24