Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
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.
I agree. However, the MiNewt 350 (along with a lot of other NiteRider products) is discontinued and a smart shopper can find these products very inexpensively. Additionally, there are more considerations than cost when buying lights - - Dependability, availability, quality, etc.
In fact for road use you don't need more then 500 lumens per light; single track riding is a different story.
That depends on where you ride and how fast you ride. I have 1500 lumens on my bar and it's just right for my nighttime routes.
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,
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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.
Sounds like great lighting and good planning.
Well, not really, for the above stated reasons. There are many more reasons for buying or not buying a light than simply what the beam looks like in an internet test, just like in any other area where we make purchases. Quality? Availability? Personal preference? Reputation of the company? How long the company has been around? I generally choose NiteRider for my front lighting, but other people's choices are just as valid. I think my concern is the verocity of a couple of the responses to
scottspeedster's large-font recommendation of the 350. I'm thinking that we could have said "The MiNewt 350 is a great light! But there's a lot of other choices, also, some that are less expensive - here's what I use" rather than the odd accusation that the poster works for the marketing dept at NiteRider.
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