I bought maximum lumens/dollar. I bought the ability to use more light when NECESSARY, like with wet streets, but not always. And I don't use three of them, with one on a helmet ignorantly pointing in car drivers' faces.

By the way, that road in the pic is a curve with the photographer on the outside of it. The bike light is on the handlebars, pointing more into the curve than the body mounted lights on the cars.

Bike lights can easily be too bright, in my opinion. They're so bright, we're having this agrument. But I work with LEDs, and am the laser safety engineer for the companies I've worked at for the past 25 years, so what do I know about it?