Originally Posted by
agarose2000
FINALLY. Someone who asked about bike lights on this forum and got good advice, actually FOLLOWED IT. Hallelujah!
I can't tell you many many friggin' times folks have asked "which light?" or "Planet Bike 0.5-1watt?" to which they've been steered directly toward your setup by many people, and then what do they do? They go out and promptly bike a Planet Bike light just because it's "bike-specific." I'd say it's like a 10:1 ratio between folks who do this versus actually taking the advice - it's not like the lockblock is that complicated or hard to order.
OK, but Sheherazade made some good points in saying why he/she prefers the blaze 2w over the P7s:
I'm so sick of my P7 light. I've tightened up the assemblies, adding paper spacers to my batteries, and snugged up the cap with magnets: nothing can make these POS flashlights reliable. Mine can barely make it a few miles without flickering or changing modes. It started flaking out with in a few months of getting it.
Planet Bike lights are expensive in terms of lumens/dollars, but they are rock solid investments. I've got two superflashes and a 1W blaze for "be seen" lights, and they've been going steady now for over two years through thunderstorms and -40 winters.
I'm in the market for a light for my bike, so anyone want to recommend a good, reasonably priced P7 flashlight? Or would the TerraLUX mentioned above not have these problems?