Originally Posted by
a1penguin
Um... 99% of the LED flashlights out there are "Cree". The "Cree" refers to the LED, not the flashlight. Build quality on cheap lights is hit or miss; usually miss, although many of the problems can be fixed.
Two days ago, I left out at 6 am in the morning, pitch dark. I had the PB Blaze 2w, and the 1300 lum Keygos ke-1 mounted up front, with the PB Superflash Turbo on the rear. On my helmet I had PB beamer and the elcheapo blinker that rivals my superflash turbo on the rear of the helmet.
Let me tell you, I could see VERY CLEARLY up front. The beam of the ke-1 was about 30 to 40 feet out and down. But, the flood coming from the ke-1 was lighting up the sides nicely. I was taking the full lane on a double lane two laner, cars were giving me MUCH RESPECT. I attribute all that to the lights. I was seen way better because of the increase lighting, and I was alble to see more clearly up front too.
In the daytime, I went with blinking on top, both lights blinking up front, and superflash blinking in the rear. I noticed, that I was being noticed more even in the daytime because of the blinking going on all around me. That's a real good thing. I noticed people were getting ready to turn in front of me, but stopped. This happened a lot of times riding doing daylight with the blinkers up front, in the rear, and on helmet front and rear..
I am sold on this method, until somebody comes up with something better..Running rechargables all around, so no biggee there.