Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I don't really understand why you want a floody light. The lights with vertical cutoff put the light where you need it and don't blind other road users. If you were a mountain biker, it would be a different matter, but a flood on the road really does you no good at all because the light is going all over the place and not on the road.
Having light going all over the place can be beneficial when you're trying to be seen among an ocean of cars. It's not without its uses. But yeah, when I saw
Snowsurfer was looking for a floody light, I figured it would be for mountain biking... aim a flood light at a road at the usual angle, and what you end up with is way too much light in the immediate foreground, and not enough at a distance where you'd have some time to avoid an obstacle at road speeds.
Then again, not everyone rides at higher speeds either. To each his own
