Originally Posted by
A10K
http://reviews.mtbr.com/lights-shoot...r-measurements
Current and past Shootout light measurements. The chart given is from 2008. Pretty much every LED model in that chart has been superseded at least once over. That being said, it took four years for LED lights to catch up, but there's a lot of lights now that are measurably brighter according to the tests (wish they used an integrating sphere...). Its still impressive how cheap the HID lights are in comparison, though if I'm going to be dropping $400 on a light I'd try building my own first in any case.
That last site is pretty impressive. I kinda want to take up motorcycling now.
OK - you're absolutely correct! Guess I didn't initially go looking far enough! Interestingly enough, that Betty keeps increasing output but stays around the $1,000 mark and I'm suspecting it has as much to do with battery technology costs as anything else. From a strategy point of view, I'd personally run a headlight and bar mounted combo rather than a single high output lamp and for the same or less money, (and a little more weight) that puts quite a few other lights listed on that comparison on an equal par as the Betty.
Yeah - motorcycles are a lotta fun. I've been a BMW motorcycle rider myself for more years than I want to remember and the light installation and video put out by Gateway BMW is something I'd love to do myself just for fun. Customized at GATEWAY BMW, this is their R1200GSA with their idea of a "lighting upgrade".
http://m.youtube.com/#/profile?user=loveandgasoline66
Thats about 15,000 real world lumens more than stock. Older people do have decreased nightvision - maybe I can use that as an excuse.