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From: On 2 Wheels

Bikes: Trek 4500, Trek 7.5 FX

1. All purpose bicycle mounted head light.

Bike 1 (Used 75% of the time) - 2 Magicshines. 1 with a decent blink rate used as a thrower, 1 with idiotic blink rate diffused to a flood.

Bike 2 - 2 x Dinotte 200s; powered by 4500mah packs, slightly overvolted. Also has a Nighthawk K2, but that seems to be petering out (turns off on bumps). This bike also carries an 18650 flashlight (qualifies for Q#3 I guess) for the helmet for some throw in the woods since the Dinottes are floody.

I WANT to get something like a BR 3 or 4 or MS828 for Bike1 and move one of the MS units to Bike2 but I'd need a proper handlebar mount for the MS so it clears the handlebar bag. I found one but it seems pricey. Actually hoping something even cooler comes out before I decide.

2. Medium to high power bicycle mounted flashlight
Not mounted to the bike, but I have enough 18650 lights and cells and 2Fish that one can be slapped on in minutes should something go wrong with a China-shine.

3. Head mounted - all purpose flashlight or bicycle light
Yup a DX brand light with a name brand XPG drop in. Also have XML and various other dropins, the XPG seems to have the best color, throw and size for my eyes. Very helpful in fixing flats in the dark.

4. Tail light
Standard config is a PDW DangerZone on the traffic side seat stay, PBSF Turbo on the curb side seat stay. In certain conditions I add a PDW Radbot on the seatbag, which is carried as a reserve. Even though the PBSF/T and PDWDZ are quite different, I dont think there is a nickle's difference between them in overall impact. Mixed together as they are on each bike, they seem awesome.

"Retired" PBSF Classic/Orginal flavor and the not-bad DX clone sitting in a box in reserve.
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