One topic that doesn't get a lot of attention in bike-light-world is the fact that lenses and reflectors matter just as much as battery and bulb technology. The reflectors and (plastic) lenses on even the cheap B&M incandescent generator lights project a trapezoid onto the ground without blasting too much light up or straight forward, much like car headlights do. It's probably not as bright than my Planet Bike light, which I'll give up over my dead body, but I can see a lot more pavement with the B&M light. I can also imagine it's less irritating to people around me, though that's probably the whole point of the cheaper 'be-seen' lights.
http://www.bumm.de/index.html?docu/170.htm --Dan _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
