Originally Posted by
shoota
It would help if you guys told us what conditions you use your lights in. For me, I would be on a mixture of lighted neighborhoods and pitch black country roads. So I need something that is usb rechargable, has more than a 2 hour runtime, and is bright enough to light up the pavement well enough to see cracks in the road when I'm doing 20mph on a dark backroad. I've narrowed it down to the Knog Road 2 (or 3) and the Cygolite Metro 500. Any I'm missing that will fit the bill?
My Niterider Lumina 650 (recently replaced by the Lumina 700) has a similar form factor to the Cygolite Metro 500. I use it as a handlebar light. Conditions are a pre-dawn (starts before 6 am) commute on unlit streets (plus a few sparsy lit sections) to get to an unlit MUP (and eventually a fairly lit main street). I found that at speed, the bar light alone wasn't enough, especially to see small potholes (that always ended up in my line) while at speed (20+ mph - usually while downhill and cornering). I ended up adding a Dinotte XML-3 as a helmet light. Not the cheapest, smallest, or the lightest (if you factor in the battery pack), but it certainly lights up whatever section of road I'm looking at.