Cassinonorth
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That’s a great shot! We’re you recording or did he stick around and pose for you?😉
He stood there for about a minute, wouldn't move...didn't seem to mind me on his trail.
That’s a great shot! We’re you recording or did he stick around and pose for you?😉
Another vote for the Outbound Evo/Hangover combo. Can’t go wrong. I was an early adopter like @shrpshtr325 and also have the OG Focal series light with the external battery. It’s all really hight quality stuff.
They sponsored the ESC night enduros last year… a buddy got to the event and his Outbound was acting up… he went to their tent to see if he could just borrow one and they just straight gave him a new one on the spot. I’m pretty sure dude was the owner. He was super chill.I would also like to share that the warranty is second to none, my battery stopped charging this spring with a weird flashing (red/green) light on the charger, they sent me a new battery AND charger no problem.
I was riding for a couple days, but yes, you need a new front hub. I just cut my stock wheels apart and rebuilt them with a hub. I run the dyno all the time on the Fat Bike and swap wheels for Road, Gravel, and MTB.8000 lumens!! Christ, you can probably leave that at your car and just point it at the woods and it's like riding in daylight!
This is great info - thanks! I did see that theh Hangover maxes out at 1000 lumens, which is not great by today's standards (but would have been the best around when I first started using lights!)
Thanks! I know very little about Dynamo lights - this is probably a stupid question, but I'd need a separate fron wheel for that beyond the one I currently have, right? It's not a unit that gets attached to the existing wheel to draw power, is it? I'm fine with that but I'm just really unfamiliar with the whole thing (although I've been Dynamo-curious for years - just too ADD to look into it when I think about it.)
My one magicshine enduro I have left has been good for 5 years. The other battery that came with it died after 1 season. Nightride lumina micro 950 is my goto for bars and helmet now.I had a ride killed before it started this afternoon when my bar-mounted light wouldn't turn on. I have a MagicShine Monteer 5000 and this is a frequent issue I've had with it for quite a while now. Apparently, this is not an issue unique to my set. It's some kind of short in the cable, which doesn't surprise me because I have always hated the battery setup on this thing - the battery connects to a cable via a face mount and that cable connects to the head unit itself. It just seems unnecessarily complex - why not just build the cable into the battery like nearly every other model with a battery out there? I have had MS lights for years now (going all the way back to when you could only buy them through the now defunct Geomangear) and this is the first set I've ever had any problem with, but I'm done with it - it's been happening for almost a year, I got a cable replacement and it started up again a few months later. So all of that is to say I'm in the market for new lights and would love some feedback if anyone has it.
I'll need both a helmet and a bar-mounted light. Where I am right now is looking at Outbound Lighting (Trail EVO for the bars, Hangover for the helmet) or perhaps Outbound for the bars and Action LED's Gloworm for the helmet. Pros and Cons of Outbound Lighting as I see it are one and the same - their lights have no battery pack. That's obviously a plus in the "1Speed doesn't need to carry extra shit" category, but it's a possible minus in the "1Speed has been known to ride long into the night so frequently keeps extra batteries in case they run out before he's done" category - with a light that is directly charged with no battery, I'm kinda done when the light is done. The Gloworm has battery packs, but the whole system is more expensive for it. I've also looked into the L&M Seca Enduro, which has a long battery life but it's also what the kiddies call "fuckin' expensive" at around $400 for the system (and more if I buy extra batteries.) I'd really like to not spend a fortune if I can avoid it.
So before I choose through these all-less-than-perfect options, anyone have experience with any of these manufacturers, or have any others that I should consider? I need a light with "good" output (2500+ lumens for bike mount, at least 1000 for the helmet), decent life span between charges, and most of all it's got to be reliable (I lived a horror story the first time this issue happened when I started out in daylight at Wharton and was all the way at the turnaround when I realized I had no working lights - for the record, it's REALLY dark in Wharton at night and as twisty as that trail is it was NOT fun trying to navigate my way back to the lot without lights.) I might be willing to forego the extra battery thing (as T.S. Eliot once said, "I grow old ... I grow old ..." so unfortunately long nights out may not be as much of a thing for me in the coming years) but only if the quality of a battery-free light is the best option.
Here’s just an outbound hangover light. It’s plenty alone!
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@1speed I used to have an out-front mount too, but stopped using it because whenever I would crash, the mount/computer would invariably take the hit. I now just have a simple bar mount (the one packaged with my Wahoo) that works great. I have a Barfly that's designed to mount out front or go to the left side and reverse mount over the stem. Can you do that with your KOM, or is it too long? If you want the Barfly, send me $20 and it's yours.
Reviving this with a (hopefully) simple question. I got caught out in the dark last night at Allamuchy (there was a significant accident on Rt 80, so we got a really late start). I've never really done any riding at night and probably won't as a regular thing, but I'd like to have something to use in these situations.
Would people generally do a bar mount or helmet mount as a single light if given the choice? Was thinking of that Outbound Hangover helmet light and then could add a bar mounted light if I actually wind up doing "intentional" night rides.