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The best rear light available on a market

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...on it. About Blackburn Mars 3.0 has been named after a bright red planet visible from afar. It has seven superb right red LED's inside a sleek water resistant case. Lens optics increase visible distance and side LED's provide 180 degree safety-boosting visibility. Two AAA batteries should last for 50 - 150 hours on a flash mode. That information says producent and seems to be about right. I use in my lamp energizer rechargeable batteries. Some ...
...only, very small issue in Blackburn Mars 3.0 is when replacing batteries you need to unscrew 3 tiny screws. Is not a big deal as do not have to do it often. It has three modes: slow flashing, fast one (almost like strobe) and viper style but up side down. My most favourite is fast flah. Altogether Blackburn Mars is the greatest bicycle rear light I have ever had in my life. I like absolutely everything in it. It is nicely designed and you can rely ...

panther23 05.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blackburn Mars 3.0 Rear Light

Confessions Of A Day & Night Flasher

Advantages: Such a simple idea - nothing to remember or buy batteries for
Disadvantages: Setting clearances of magnets is fiddly

...Club) magazine to espy the Reelight SL 120 lighting system on the back cover. The next day, outside the same school, blow me there's a bike with the damned things fitted, and yet I'd never seen them before in my life. Generally bike lighting falls into two categories, battery-powered and dynamo-powered. They both have their pros and cons. Battery lights stay on when you've stopped, but cost you money to run. OK, the modern breed of Light Emitting ...
...against the wind. Well Reelight have! (See www.2pure.co.uk) Someone's obviously put a lot of thought into this classically 'simple' idea; the simple idea being that if you pass a permanent magnet over an electrical coil, it induces a current into that coil. Do it often enough with a strong enough magnet and you've just reinvented the bike dynamo for the 21st century, only this time, thanks to LED lighting, the power needs are tiny, and therefore ...

BNibbles 14.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Reelight SL120

Exposure Joystick MaXx - High quality bike light - but exclusive

Advantages: Bright!! Small, light, VERY High Quality, Narrow beam with long throw, Tough, Good battery life.
Disadvantages: Sphincter-tighteningly expensive, Narrow beam, Not really for bar-mounting. Overkill for the road.

...an addition to the larger Exposure bar lights. For the road it's overkill unless you're a speed freak or spend most of your time on unlit sections though I'd still recommend it for it's quality and squint-inducing beam for when you really need people to see you. It is so light and convenient (no external batteries) that you can leave it on your helmet all the time so you're never caught without a light. I love this light! ...

bab_f4 21.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Exposure Joystick MaXx

Hope's Fistful of LED's?

Advantages: Very bright light, flexible, durable
Disadvantages: Slighty iffy bracket, Heavy unit

...Another innovation seen on the Hope light and some other LED lights is the use of a collimated lens, which significantly improves beam spread. And our Hope? The Hope Vison has a single LED emitter producing 240 lumens on max power. It's bright. It's main feature however is rather than having an integral battery, it instead runs on 4 AA batteries. On the one hand you get greater flexibility, but on the other you have to buy batteries for your ...
...red version. It has "VISION hope ONE" laser etched into the red anodised aluminium shell. In addition the aluminium ring around the lens and the battery end cap are silver rather than colour matched. In my view the unit is attractively styled. It was easy to assemble - choose the correct rubber spacers for the quick release handlebar clamp, bolt it to the light unit, and fit it to your handlebars and away you go. Out of the box it appeared to be ...

fred_redwood 04.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hope Vision Single LED

Nice idea but....

Advantages: Great little size, very bright, easy to use, good quality lights
Disadvantages: horrible product fault - straps often get jammed and won't budge

These are 2 small CatEye light, i say very small they are jolly conveinient for popping into your pocket when you have left your bike somewhere. Both have 2 batteries, AA in the front and AAA in the back, and despite the size work fantasticly for the price you pay. These aren't the sort of lights that light up the whole road in front of you. I would suggest you only use these are roads with street lights. I have ridden late at night on back road, ...
...up. But then you aren't paying for something that lights up the whole road. These are for main road use, and for this - they work fine. Very bright and you will be very visable despite the size. There are 3 different settings on the rear light and 2 on the front. These are solid light and flashing light and the rear light also does a christmas style fairly light sort of flashing - not sure where you'd use that... The rear light also comes with ...

Samsung_93 09.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of CatEye EL135 / TL130 Light Set