Lights

Since writing that little review up there, I've gone through two sets of Reelights.

Basically what happened is that I put them on my girlfriend's town bike which gets locked up daily in some pretty busy stands, and they just fell apart within a couple of weeks. The cables got ripped out of the first set (and they're not repairable), and the brackets also broke, so I wrote to Reelight and they sent me a set of 620s (the top-of-the-range ones) which, within a month, broke in exactly the same way.

I wouldn't recommend them on anything that's likely to get bashed. They're simply not very durable, both because of their design (physically small brackets, not repairable) and because of cheap materials (really brittle plastic, cheap screws that round off easy, threads that strip before they're properly tight etc).

I have a set of what looks like the SL200 and I like them - no cables, just the magnets and the lights.

My worst complaint is that the front one failed after a while (water ingress maybe?). The rear failed for a few days but has since been working just fine for the past few months.

With vertical dropouts and a QR skewer on the back, the axle mount doesn't really fit properly and has mashed up the the dropout a bit.

With a rack on the back of the bike and a bag on top of the rack, there aren't really many mounting points for rear lights - I also have one of these on the, which is OK but it's not the brightest:

As you can see, I'm not going for style points here...

Up front I'm making do with a Bontrager Glo whilst I work out what's gone wrong with my Hope Vision 2 :(

For a little USB rechargeable, it seems quite decent although I'm still getting used to being able to charge my lights from the TV.