Originally Posted by
e0richt
Ah, quoting myself from the "Side visibilty" thread* on the Electronics, Lights, and Gadgets sub-forum:
I tried the BikeBrightz. I really liked it except for two things:
1) the battery compartment, it's a royal pain in the rear to get the batteries out to swap them
2) it's not waterproof.
# 2 is a deal killer for me. If it was waterproof I'd still have it mounted and just be regularly grumbling about the PITA changing the batteries, but even though I often only contend with drizzly conditions, and have full fenders with large mudflaps, there's enough moisture getting on the light with it mounted on the downtube to cause it to stop functioning until it dries out. Given that its often wet day after day here, unfortunately the light is no good to me.
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http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ide-visibility
I had the green one. It looked pretty neat when it was dry out. Regularly got comments from pedestrians, it was clearly visible to them, looking rather similar to the "ground effects" lights on a low rider car.