Originally Posted by
Tall Cool One
My old cheapo headlight for my road bike passed away after a hemorrhage of the battery.
I'm looking to replace.
My budget is 50 bucks or less. I'm using it mainly to be seen, but would love to be able to see with it as well while riding through small town streets some lit, some not. What headlight would you recommend?
I only use it to finish up summer evening rides. Absolute longest I would be using it at one time would be an hour and that's if I have a major problem.
This is easy. Buy one of the Solarstorm X2 lamps or clones. On the bars makes a very good road light. I do suggest however that you find a place that sells just the lamp head and than buy a battery from a reliable vendor. The batteries that are usually sold with these lamps are sometimes not the best of quality. On the other hand most of these cheap 4-cell batteries should still provide over 1.5 hr. with the lamp on high. The SSX2 lamp head with a good after market battery should cost about $45-$50.
Now if you want to spend less and can get by with just 900 lumen buy
one of these..( you will still need a battery though ) A good quality 7.4 volt 4-cell battery ( with battery bag ) will cost about $25-$35....
or buy one of these ( buy four cells for this and you are ready to go )