I agree with that. Too much light straight ahead can actually hurt you. Yeah, they see the light (literally! ) but the glare is so much that it can be difficult to gauge your distance, as well as potentially wash out their ability to see other cyclists/pedestrians who may be ahead of you. I ran a setup the other night w/ two lights down low, and one retina-scorcher pointed ahead. Couldn't really do much else with that light w/ a lockblock because of the weight. I tried to position it so that the light pattern from the three was dipped low on the left, but I could tell that just twitching the handlebars around could've easily sent the blinding spot right into oncoming traffic. So I'd probably keep that one off except for off-pavement or "alone on the road" time.

Not that it matters on your bikes, it looks like the lights are pointed down, at least in the Christmas shots. Just a general observation.

And yes, kickass setup.