For off-road (and on-road), it's really hard to beat the combination of a stem and helmet mounted setup. The specific problem with off-road is that periodically, your bicycle may not be pointed in the direction you need to see. I've found that balancing the power is most helpful. Depending on how well your eyes work in the dark, even a low wattage LED setup can be quite enough for normal speeds. (of course, downhill over technical trails, you need/want brightness.) I like a bit more focused headlight beam - ideal for when you "need" to see somewhere. The test I use is to look away from the forward fixed beam and see if I can see enough detail.
hope that helps. - Jim On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:10:09 PM UTC-8, Lynne Fitz wrote: > > off-road is notoriously poorly-lit and has no fog lines. I am all for the > widest beam possible. The B&M Luxos lights are both long and wide, plus > have a shaped beam with a cutoff. Love mine for the occasional trails > through parks after dark part of a rando ride. The Luxos is a biggish > light, though. Mine is mounted at the front of my Nitto rack. > > A riding buddy of mine swears by her helmet mounted Stella. It is a > searchlight; I can say that about it. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
