Cygolite is in my area, Orange County. I went for the Expilion 350 lumen Cygolite front and the Hotshot rear.

From my investigation, Cygolite is a small company and does their own engineering. If you get past their sales staff, you can actually speak with the engineer. I think their stuff is assembled here at their shop. Certain models are sold at Performance and certain others at REI.

I had Magicshine but had trouble with the battery pack. So I switched to Cygolite.