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Help me pick my lighting...

Distance: 12-20 miles, depending on if I take the bus. It's 12 miles to the nearest bus stop. So I guess that would be 24-40 miles r/t.
Terrain: A divided state highway with nice wide shoulders. Rolling hills.
Lighting: 1/2 mile through the neighborhood to the state road (doubles as Main St. in town). Then 3 miles of street lights/commercial lighting through town. Then 6 miles of sporadic lights, followed by 3 more miles of commercial (with street lights being installed in the median as I type this). That gets me to the bus stop. If I choose not to take the bus (depending on mood/energy/time), then I will be using a MUP that has next to nothing in the way of lights of it's own.

Now here's where I need your input. I'm thinking of running two flashlights w/a generator light as well. The generator looks like it would probably be a bottle type.

The mounting positions of the lights would be:

-generator light on the fork crown.
-one flashlight mounted on the fork, possibly the hub.
-another flashlight on the handlebar.

Beyond that, I'm pretty clueless. Nor do I have any idea of batteries/chargers.

I'm wanting to stay under $200 all in, and that includes getting a PBSF (or two).
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