If you look at the pictures on the site I posted there were some lights that did better then the MiNewt for the same cost or less. So I wasn't trying to convey that someone needed to spend a mint for lighting. In fact for road use you don't need more then 500 lumens per light; single track riding is a different story. I have two headlight I use at night, a Phillips Saferide on the bars and a Cygolite Mitycross 480 on the helmet and those two lights are more then what's needed for the road. In fact most of the time I use only the middle brightness setting on the Mitycross and low on the Saferide. The Saferide is a fairly expensive light but the only reason I use is because I won the light, otherwise I would have gone with my Mitycross on the bars and my ExpiliOn 350 on the helmet which was plenty of light...now my wife uses the ExpiliOn as her only light however she doesn't go out at night but does use it on flash mode during the day.

Personally I think someone with budget concerns could get one of the ExpiliOn lights as their main light, then later when they have more money saved get a second ExpiliOn either brighter or the same brightness and add it to their helmet. I would probably put the dimmer one on the helmet. But a single 300 to 350 lumen ExpiliOn on the bars would be plenty of lighting especially in the city with lots of ambient lighting.

You can get a ExpiliOn 600 (lumens) for under $100...barely. Or a 350 for under $85. Anyway see: http://www.amazon.com/CygoLite-Expil...olite+expilion This would make the MiNewt look like a DimWit.