Originally Posted by 2manybikes
The truth about LED's ?
HID's are more efficent, more light, better run time. In a few years an HID bulb could wear out from the number of hours or the number of starts, but they take lots of abuse, like 24 hour off road racing. The light is not ruined when the bulb wears out, you just replace the bulb.
See the first post in the thread "light selection guide" for more infomation and links to nightime beam photos of all kinds of lights. It has an excellent comparison of the pro's and con's of different bulb types.
There is even a chart that lets you compare price, run time, power, etc. of different lights.
Yah but how /MUCH/ is the replacement HID bulb tho. I was thinking of the HID myself and I do ride about 2-3 hours a night with probably about 6-8 on/off switches (I grocery shop, snack stops, and when I'm in/out of dark zones and back into the city lights) a night as I shift between my low power blinkie/light and my high power one (if/when I get a HID high power). Based on my time/useage what ywould you say my bulb burn out time would be?
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