Lights

Paul Gino

Ended up getting one of these, but not a Paul one. Bounce Cycles makes one that is a bit cheaper. Really like them, so I bought a second for the other side of the fork.

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£34 here. https://winstanleysbikes.co.uk/exposure-trace-mk2-front-light?gclid=Cj0KCQjw6_CYBhDjARIsABnuSzo63Br0zpQyQqms0FRnAuUDQS0rCRJ5HOy1szRViujDI4ey3oK5hhMaAgL1EALw_wcB

You can get the Trace for less than £40 which is a good, light, small front light with good battery

No doubt, but that’s not a comparable light to the Ravemen PR series or the Exposure strada stuff.

For some reason I always consider a ‘commuting’ front light as one that enables you to see on unlit roads as that’s my commute. Sorry if that’s not the case here.

Ah gotcha.

Well if it helps the Exposure Joystick is excellent for that purpose. Bit more pricey though!

Thanks for your help! My commute is urban, so nothing unlit really. Im not in UK so brexit makes the exposure a bit more expensive still. Cant seem to find em from euro shops.

The Trace sort of fits the bill i guess :-)

I like the Moon stuff. Seems very good value from the bits I have.

Thanks!

They're the only lights I've had that have lasted through the abuse I've thrown at them. The Lezyne ProDrives I've had were ok but the battery life seems to have shortened too much now. Missus used one for a bit during MdS but she also had the crazy blinky Exposure rear light.

Great! Will consider buying exposure when wallet looks too thick. I got some 2,5£ lights to obey the law for now.

Hope lights great but the cables are the weak point but a great repair service . Crossed over to exposure and trace summer lights and max d winter which cars hate thinking your a tractor . Expensive but a uk best and they support mountain rescue and cavers.

Liz has had a couple of Moon lights and although there are good and pretty cheap, if she hasn’t used them of over a week they won’t switch on until you give them a wake up charge. It happened to both of them, but they are still going strong with 3 years of use.

I've got a few Moon lights and haven't had this issue! One is a backup that sits in my saddle bag, I used it for the first time in months recently and it was fine. I generally like my Moon lights, I've got a Meteor Storm as my main front light and it's excellent, loads of different settings and bright as fuck when it's on full whack. The only problem is that it's pretty big and heavy.

Anyone recommend a really solid fork mount for front light? Got one like attached, but it's really flexy and annoying..

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I’ve got one of these https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/accessories/mwave-fork-accessory-bracket/ (B&M also do one, don’t know the difference…) that seems pretty solid. Was to use with an exposure revo, so not really heavy but on the shortest extension was rigid enough. If you extent it, it does get a bit floppy.

Didn’t quite fit a new set up, so I’ve got one going spare if you want to have a look? Where are you based? May be that with postage it’s cheaper to buy new 🤦‍♂️

What's stupid in that photo is that fork has that removable black piece of plastic which is replaceable with a specific light mount. Like this: .
What fork and light do you have?

What fork and light do you have

Standard fork, Exposure Joystick.

@C4r1s - cool, will have a look at them.

Is there a saddle rail mounted light such as this that is compatible with 7x9 carbon rails?

Google tells me nothing….

I imagine whatever the rail clamp is on that one will have the extra 2mmish thread needed to clamp onto oval rails.

Sorry, I’ve not understood this.

If you were explaining to a simple person?

This is the light I currently have and I really like the clip on saddle rail mount…

Will it not clip onto oval rails? Looking again it just clips on rather than the one I'm familiar with, which tightens on with A bolt or two so maybe not.

Unfortunately not, the clip curves at the ends and has purchase on round rails.

I’m wondering if there is a similar style clip for the oval rails.

The light attachment looks a bit proprietary but I don't think it'd be too hard to take one of the other clamps, like the bar one, and attach it to a couple of bars/tubes of alu with grooves filed into the right bits and a couple of holes and nuts and bolts to hold it all in place, post photos in the bodge thread afterwards.

Anyone had issues with low burn time on a Diablo Mk11? Mine is only 2 years old, so I'm hoping it was just a bad charge (but it seems unlikely).

Now the the sun is rising later in the mornings and the country lanes have some mist around and trees covering the road - Is there a minimum lume recommendation for front and rear lights?

Further to this, what are your winter light recommendations?

Dunno, but I bought the missus the super blinky Exposure rear light, as much for brightness as duration between charges for our longer rides. It's officially "terrible to ride behind".

For front I'm still using my Supernova dynamo light and various Exposure lights.