Originally Posted by
davidad
Mostly because the Cygolite is almost a pound altogether. When your bike weighs 33 pounds without anything loaded on it, you tend to want to NOT put any unnecessary pounds on it. Or at least that's my thinking. My bike's heavy enough as it is, without my lighting system add a lot more. At least we're mostly past the days of the 3 pound NiCad water-bottle batteries. Anyone remember those beasts?!