Originally Posted by
sillypjs
I figured bumping an old thread would be better than starting a new one.
I have a pretty short commute (3miles), but about half of my ride is unlit and very hilly. The other half of my commute is fairly well lit with bike lanes. I looked around for a bit and saw a bunch of options, would any of the below work well for me? Of the bunch I'd probably prefer the Fenix system, but I don't know enough about how each would work to really decide.
The Cygolite night-rover and cygolite XM nitro are $80 at performance, while the niterider trail rat and the cygolite hi-flux are 110. I'd get 10% off on any of them. One other thing - would one of these be a better option than the
Fenix mentioned earlier in the thread? The ones who mentioned using it said that it was great for semi-lit areas, so I'm concerned about using it in my situation.
For a short commute like this, I'd be tempted to get something like
this or
this (actually 2 of each) or even the Fenix (although your link doesn't work for me). For such a short ride, you don't want to go with rechargeable battery or systems with a lot of battery requirements. Get something simple that takes alkaline batteries. If you use rechargeables, the batteries are going to self discharge faster than you use them. Self discharge isn't good for the battery and you just end up killing expensive batteries for nothing.
Whatever you get, get more than one.