Originally Posted by
John Valuk
If I'm looking - today, not ten years ago - at the products from Fenix, I don't think I would say that their bike lights are "light years behind" some of their mainstream flashlights. Bleeding edge, no, but they have pretty good emitters, batteries, drive circuitry, and build quality - which is what I might expect from a "bike light" made by a company that knows how to make good flashlights. A number of their bike lights have user-replaceable batteries, too.
I agree that there long have been, and continue to be, a lot of "bike lights" sold that are deeply inferior to a lot of mainstream "good flashlights".
Presumably Fenix themselves would make a decent bike light, being just directly ported over from their flashlight tech with bike specific hardware on the outside.
Fenix is a major brand. The smaller nich enthusiast flashlight brands have faster product cycles for those who care about always getting the latest tech.