Originally Posted by hi565
I was going through perfomrancebike.com and i saw lights that were teenie for like 600 dollars, WTF.
like this one
it doesnt make sense
Do you mean, It doesn't make sense for you? It may not.
Top of the line bike lights are $900 not $600.
What something is worth is subjective, it’s different for everyone.
The guy who wins the National 24 hour mountain bike races, probably feels he "needs" the $900 light. For what he does with it he's right. He wins.
If you have sturdy tires and don't ride at night much, you get what you think YOU "need". I "wanted" to get a powerful light that would go longer than four hours this year, I kept running out of time all year. So I moved up from my $400 light to the $900 one. It gets 175 miles a week and saves me from a lot of flat tires at midnight. I can see the tiniest pieces of glass in the road just like daytime. I go around them.
If you ride long enough, and often enough, under the right conditions eventually you want a powerful light.
That does not mean YOU "need" one.