Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
If you leave the Cygolite on steady it will burn for 4.5 hours, on flash it will run for 300 hours...so how long do you ride in one night? for 300 hours? The L & M one will only burn for 4 hours on high and 8 hours on pulse...again, how long do you need it for in one night? Both of those lights are rechargable, so you plug into a USB port and charge it after every use. That doesn't seem that complicated to me.
On the Cygolite, the I misread the runtimes.
As for how much I ride at night, that's not really the point. When I get on or off the bike, I like leaving all my equipment as is. If riding a bike becomes a big inconvenience, I'm going to be inclined to buy a car again. When I get home from work, I don't want to take of 3 lights, take them in, charge them, and have to put them back on the bike later that night or in the morning.
I want to use them until they start to get dim and replace the batteries. Most of the time that would be somewhere that I could charge them, but on occasion that would not be the case. Without a battery indicator, sometimes it sneaks up on you.
On secondary bikes, when I go out and find out the tail light is dead I don't want to have to charge it before I can ride it.
That being said, I have added the Cygolite to my Amazon wish list and I may buy it as a replacement for the light that clips on my trunk bag. That would be a 3rd light and replace the relative dim wal-mart blinky I have now as a secondary. The L&M is just to expensive for a single tail light for me, when I really want redundancy.