I ride with lumicycles, I mostly ride with just a 12W spot, mounted on
my helmet, sometimes using a more powerful 20w mid beam light for really
technical offroad riding or fast offroad cokering. They are very
expensive, but great. I love the fact they've got a really bright rear
light that runs off the same (rechargeable) battery, so I don't get the
thing where your rear light slowly gets dimmer and you don't notice for
a couple of weeks. I justified lumicycles by riding to work every day,
which saved me a couple of quid each day which I set aside for toys.
There are loads cheaper 12w head torches, which are okay for riding
muni. Alternatively, if you're practical, you can bodge one together for
not all that much money using plumbing parts and cheap batteries from
maplin.
However, if you don't do scary muni with them, or want to ride
super-fast, then a head mounted LED torch, or a headmounted halogen
torch does an alright job, you can get these from Maplin pretty cheap,
or from camping shops.
If you're just riding on the street or in areas with lighting, you can
get by fine with just front and back LEDs, mounted on the seatpost. I'd
also recommend some red and white reflective tape on your frame (get it
from halfords in the car trim section), partly because seatpost mounted
LEDs aren't very visible from the side, and partly because it's more
visible to cars from a distance than LEDs. If you're not on the road at
all and it's lit, you probably don't even need the lights.
Whatever happens, it'll be a bit different to start with, but riding at
night is super cool, especially if you're somewhere really remote,
nothing beats being on top of a great big hill in the middle of the
night.
Joe
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