Originally Posted by
SDRider
Lights on a bike are more for being seen by traffic than to light the road ahead. Unless you weigh your bike down with multiple lights and heavy batteries, most bike lights are horribly ineffective at night for lighting the road enough to see and avoid obstacles.
When you live in the desert, where light pollution is low and streets may have no lights because there may be large portions with nothing on them whatsoever, even a $20 x mart LED headlight provides enough light to ride by. It's what I've gotta do.