Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
The Saferides biggest drawback is coming with crappy batteries, and poor battery life. There was a trend of the stock batteries it comes with being defective, and even if they weren't runtime only seemed to be around 1 hour. Put better batteries in it (like Enelopp XX's) and it was less than 2 hours. The IQ Premium is 4-5 hours.
From online pics, it looks like the Ixon IQ beam pattern is wider, more even (as in less artifacts), and puts more light closer to the bike (convenient though not required), but I since I don't own a Saferide to try side by side I can't be 100% certain.
If the battery life isn't a problem for you, the Saferide otherwise sounded like a decent light. :-)
Well I'm hoping tonight's performance is just because the batteries haven't been broken in yet. From "fully charged" to "completely dead" in under 35 minutes is embarrassing. That's not even gonna cut it for my short commute.
Time to give this thing a little more time to figure it's act out before I figure out what to do with it.