Advice for a new type of bike light

[Heltor Chasca]

Lezyne have an app that connects to your light operation. Honestly, do we need to whip out our phone every time? Or can Siri do it?

Haven’t got a telly, but I’ve got bike lights that get me through an entire night of riding.

 

[Sixmile]

I can't be the only one who read this thread and initially thought " flip me, B&M bargains do decent bike lights?!?!"

 

[Slioch]

I miss these for their sheer versatility and design excellence.

Can you redesign one bringing it up to current day standards? Say, 800 lumens and a couple of flash modes?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I miss these for their sheer versatility and design excellence.

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Can you redesign one bringing it up to current day standards? Say, 800 lumens and a couple of flash modes?

Can’t be the genuine article. Not an inch of masking tape in sight.

 

[fossyant]

Take a look at the Ding Light - great idea, shame the construction was poor. Badly sealed against water (actually mud got inside) and the mount snapped off the case. Self contained, reasonably bright, and lit the ground under the bike - great idea for commuting and off road, but shocking quality (after all the R&D). I liked that light until it broke.

 

[Bazzer]

I should like a light like my Cateye Volt1300, with an easily adjustable (for tightness) universal joint. That way in normal riding I can have it tightened sufficiently so as not to move on our poorly surfaced roads. However, if a motorist decides to burn my retinas with their car's full beam, I can easily move the light, to "remind" them to be more considerate.

 

[andrew_s]

I do dynamo lights (Edelux 2).
This is a good equivalent of a car's dipped beam, but what I'd like is the equivalent of a car full beam, at the flick of a switch, from the same light unit.
The same standard of construction woyld be good too.

Currently, I sometimes use a separate torch (Fenix PD35), which gives an additional full beam on the tail switch, but it's an extra light, and not exactly instant.

 

[Drago]

Have you considered designing bike lights with indicators built in? There's an untapped gap in the market if ever there was.

 

[G3CWI]

Have you considered designing bike lights with indicators built in?

Indicators on bikes! You could be onto something there... Genius.

 

[classic33]

Have you considered designing bike lights with indicators built in? There's an untapped gap in the market if ever there was.

Summat like this?

 

[kynikos]

I'd like one with three switches:
ON/OFF - obviously
LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH - brightness, so as to accomodate different ambient conditions
COOL/HOT - former for using whilst on the bIke; latter so it can be used to barbeque my favourite meats

 

[tom73]

What ever you come up with if it don't match the bike I won't be buying.

 

[Drago]

Summat like this?
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Dammitall. I was just about to order a new Bentley on the strength of my forecast profits.

 

[cyberknight]

What ever you come up with if it don't match the bike I won't be buying.

@vickster wants a black one i heard

 

[Blue Hills]

A rear flasher which if it has a blinding macho mode/level automatically senses when it's fastened to A helmet (easy i would have thought, distance from ground) and if it is matches the rear facing light with the sound of a hammer on an anvil directed forwards. If attached lower down, to bike, vibrates in order to sexually excite rider/confirm to them that they are god's gift to whatever they fancy and ever so gradually undo any bolts/fasteners.