Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Just buy something.
I guarantee that no matter what you buy, you will at some point wish you bought something else. Eventually you'll be like the rest of us and have a dozen taillights and 4 or 5 headlights.
You will NEVER get any kind of consensus here because some people think there's no such thing as bright enough unless you're lighting shrubs on fire as you ride by, and others are afraid of offending light sensitive vampires on the MUP.
Great advice. I really should just go into my LBS, look at no more than three items, and buy one. But in this case, it's sort of an impulse buy based on having a $50 Amazon gift card, so I have to make this purchase without the benefit of actually seeing the thing blink. Most people, in all my research, seem to recommend the CygoLite Hot Shot, so I thought it'd be simple to just buy that. But then I see that there are 5 or 6 Hot Shot models and no good explanations as to how they differ. Plus, I finally get what I thought was an answer as to whether the Hot Shot can be mounted on a Topeak Explorer rack and now I can't confirm that THIS particular Hot Shot will mount to that rack because, apparently, they are all different.
As I said earlier, this is why I never end up buying anything -- and maybe why people don't buy as much as they used to. Hey, bike lighting industry...just give me two choices and I PROMISE I will pick one!!!!!!!