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Old 10-30-12 | 08:41 PM
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Bikes: Too many to list, some I built myself including the frame. I "do" ~ Human-Only-Pedal-Powered-Cycles, Human-Electric-Hybrid-Cycles, Human-IC-Hybrid-Cycles, and one Human-IC-Electric-3way-Hybrid-Cycle

Originally Posted by Editz
Originally Posted by unterhausen
. . . would be nice to have on the occasions that people fail to dim, . . .

That failure to dim problem is my main problem with bike lights right now. To my knowledge no bike specific light is set up with Low/High beam two mode set-up like car headlights so you can "flash" them just like other cars do (I so want to be confused for a motorcycle by oncoming traffic) to get them to dim. Very few flashlights are set up that way either, two mode is a rare animal in flashlights as well. It appears that flashlight is a two mode but it looks to be way, way overkill and would probably be too bright on low mode.

I'm probably going to have to just build my own set-up and use some cheap single mode flashlights that use the Cree T6 emitter and aim two of them with a down angle into the ground in front of me and and least four more mounted without any down angle with a momentary contact remote switch wired into them all together on the bars right where my right thumb is. See if that does the trick or not. That Kong-12 is a serious monster but I bet it is in the same price range as these crazy expensive Prometheus flashlights, seriously man the price is way out on these things especially since it only takes a year or two for this kind of LED technology to advance far enough that the old stuff becomes way out of date.
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