Lights....you paid how much?

[potsy]

2 Hope vision 1's
1 Moon 500
1 Lezyne 500
1 Cree T6
1 Solarstorm (twin u2)
2 Smart 25 lux

Rear

3 Smart 1/2 watts
1 Lunar R1 (was 2 but I lost one the other night)
A few cheopo Tesco specials

Not as bad as fossy but not far off

 

[fossyant]

Lightweight.

 

[Kies]

2 x generic cree T6 lights
2 x moon comet rear (red)
1 x moon comet front (white)
4 low end cateye's

Total cost around £130

 

[Pat "5mph"]

1 Lunar R1 (was 2 but I lost one the other night)

I lost my rear Cat Eye Nima on Saturday

 

[Accy cyclist]

I don't commute or do enough night time riding to justify spending hundreds on lights,so i have a 20 quid front light. It's bright enough for oncoming motorists or pedestrians to see me,and i wear reflective clothing as well as having spoke reflectors etc so i can be seen from the side and back as well as from the front!

 

[jessculter]

I spend more than half my time night commuting so I figured spending a bit of cash on lights is money well spent. I have 3 bikes I might add, these are not on one bike,

Full beam front light £140 down from £400, cracking light and bought before the Chinese Cree revolution,
A couple of cheap cateyes front and rear, £20
Cateye Solar/ hybrid front light, £15 down from £50
2 smart 1/2 rears, a tenner each.
Knog rear blinder £20

And that concludes my lights stash but I'm a sucker for a good light in the sale.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Brompton: approx £100 worth of cateye volt front & rear, a T6 magicshine clone front & solid reflector/light fixed combo rear borrowed from my cannondale.

Cannondale: about the same £100 factory fitted shimano hub dynamo powering b&m IQ fly & a cheapy flashy thing at the front, a smart half watt, a JOS mudguard mounted solid on LED/ reflector unit & a bag mounted aldi flashy one on the rear.

Coppi: same again. smart lunar 25 & mount for the volt 300 on the front. 5 led flashy one on the frame and cheapy aldi one mounted on whatever saddlepack I'm using.

Helmet when I wear it has a Cateye 5 LED front light and smart half watt rear.

All in all about £300's worth with various unused torches I've trialled and cheapy ones where the bracket or mounts have snapped lying about too.

 

[totallyfixed]

I lost my rear Cat Eye Nima on Saturday

1 Lunar R1 (was 2 but I lost one the other night)

Are you two going to get married?

Just asking .

[Can't wait to see the meet up on Colin's ride if I am around]

 

[gbb]

My front is a twin Cree homebrew.
Had it maybe 3 or 4 years, last year a lady stopped me at a junction and asked..'where did you get those lights and how much were they, they';re lovely and bright'
Mine cost IRO £40 -£60 to make, including a 14v L-Ion battery and charger (lovely, compact and lightweight, compared to those awful heavy lead acid things we had years ago)
The batteries still going strong, several hours run time out of a single charge.
I saw her blanch as i explained how much, then she brightened and said, for that brightness...i'm going to invest some money on mine i think.

 

[VamP]

These Chinese lights are so good, I struggle to justify anything else these days. £18 a pop. Come-on!

 

[Beebo]

These Chinese lights are so good, I struggle to justify anything else these days. £18 a pop. Come-on!

I'm with you on that.
I have two cree torches on the front, bought from the 7-day shop. £4.99 each and plenty good enough for my needs. Stick brand new duracells in them and they will do a full Fnrttc no problem, down some very dark lanes.
On the back I have two Smart rear lights, One was £15 the other £8.
So all in all my lights cost £35.
If they break or fall off I wont cry about it.(one of my rears fell off last week)
Also I dont have to worry about leaving the lights on the bike when I park it up, if I had expensive lights I would have to faff around taking them off every time.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I got fed up with the poor performance of various Cateyes (front) and fitted a SON dynamo with B&M IQ Cyo R Senso+, the best move I ever made, and the same dynamo powers a B&M Toplight Brake rear. For unlit areas of my ride I also have a Magicshine 816.

I have other rear lights as backups: Phaart Bleep Dual 0.5 Watt LED, and a B&M IX-Red senso diode rear light, or for use in fog or very low sun: a Magicshine MJ818.

Total cost of that lot was about £340 (although the SON dynamo and IQ Cyo were Christmas gifts).

GC

 

[Frood42]

Waiting on these lights from a Kickstarter project (delivered Feb hopefully).
I have gone for the INTENSE Intelligent Front (200) and Rear (120) Lights.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1670187625/seesense-the-intelligent-bike-light-with-road-sens

Currently I have:

Hope 1 front £90
Light Output: 215 measured lumens, 300 generated lumens
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/hope-vision-1-led-front-light/

Moon Guard rear £40
Up to 60 lumens light output
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/moon-shield-60-rechargeable-rear-light/

Smart 7 LED rear (on both rear stays) £8.49
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/smart-7-led-rear-light/rp-prod42801
-- these will be spares when the See.Sense turn up
.

 

[Buzzinonbikes]

Front - Exposure Trace and Magicshine 808-E
Rear - Cateye Rapid 5 and Philips Safe ride.

Probably about £140 in total but they are all excellent lights imho.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Waiting on these lights from a Kickstarter project (delivered Feb hopefully).
I have gone for the INTENSE Intelligent Front (200) and Rear (120) Lights.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1670187625/seesense-the-intelligent-bike-light-with-road-sens

Currently I have:

Hope 1 front £90
Light Output: 215 measured lumens, 300 generated lumens
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/hope-vision-1-led-front-light/

Moon Guard rear £40
Up to 60 lumens light output
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/moon-shield-60-rechargeable-rear-light/

Smart 7 LED rear (on both rear stays) £8.49
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/smart-7-led-rear-light/rp-prod42801
-- these will be spares when the See.Sense turn up
.

Those See Sense lights look interesting, you'll have to do a review when you get them.