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Old 10-04-13 | 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris516
After I was rear-ended in broad daylight with Planet Bike taillight set to strobe, I went and got this: http://media.performancebike.com/ima...-NCL-ANGLE.jpg

It is far brighter, and USB rechargeable.
That's great, but what is it? All we have is a picture.

OK, I found it from the brand name:
http://www.performancebike.com/bikes...400751__400751

Looks almost identical to the Serfas Shield, same light output, significantly cheaper. As I just lost my Serfas last week, I may buy one of these.

Not real happy with the reviews though, mentioning the bad clip. A bad clip on the Serfas is why my Serfas is sitting in a ditch somewhere right now. It actually fell off 3 times, the 3rd time I was unable to find it.

BTW I agree that the Superflash is woefully inadequate by modern standards. The Serfas Shield or the Axiom you show are good at 60 lumens.

Also good are the MagicShine taillight, which at $30 if you already are running a magicshine headlight and can tap it onto that battery is a great deal. The Cygolite Hotshot is pretty good at about 40 lumens but the light from it is exceptionally spotty - a laser beam pointing straight back, much less effective to the sides. The Knog Blinder series are good, the 4 light version being 44 lumens and they have the most evenly distributed light pattern I've ever seen. Totally uniform over about a 120+ degree angle.
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