Originally Posted by
Looigi
With two lights, run:
both high for lots of light
one flashing one steady or one high one low (alternate to extend battery life)
one on bars one on helmet
leave one home charging your spare battery (battery only charges installed in light)
Agree switch and usb cover are problematic. A smidge of silicone grease on the usb cover helps a lot.
Weight is not out of line (it has a large aluminum heat sink) and it looks fine to me.
Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
I have no problems with the switch. I agree the USB port cover can be a littler cumbersome getting it back on, but it probably seals out the elements better that way, once you do get it in. Really that's an extremely MINOR annoyance with me. And almost everything in life has some minor annoyance or another. Rarely is anything ever 100% perfect.
I think two lights for the situations listed, are a good idea.
I started out a couple years ago with the Cygolite Pace 150. Works good, thought 'high' was just a bit dim. Just recently got the Pace 400. Despite the number, not a whole lot brighter, but together, they can boost illumination up quite a bit. These two headlights, and the 700 appear to be using the same basic housing. That's simple, makes sense.
The switch...the way it cycles through the power levels, and learning the right amount of gentle pressure needed to activate it, took some getting used to, but I'm very comfortable with it now, and can easily change settings on the fly.
The cumbersome way the dopey little rubber USB cover meets up with its receptacle seems lame to me. I realize Cygolite, from a design perspective, is dealing with a very small area to work with on the back of the housing where the USB port is located, but perhaps with just a slight redesign of some of the plug's edges, it could meet up with the receptacle a bit more readily and still do its important sealing job. This would save users of its light, out in the cold and wet, and dark from having to use a fingernail or whatever, to try jam the plug back in after it's been accidentally been tugged out, which can happen easily when a hand brushes over the side of the housing towards the back where the cover is.