new tactical flashlight called the G700
 

anyone see this ad? anyone get one?

http://www.smartfinancialdaily.com/t...d=2wx8t4085qu8

amazon has some 900 lumen handhelds. just a flashlight junkie I guess. glove junkie too. finding it hard to resist buying stuff for myself this time of year

That page admits it is an advertorial, a word I find hard to stomach.

Have you found any of these flashlights to work well as a bike headlight? I've gone through many, and I consider it to be a lot of money wasted until I discovered purpose-built bike lights are the best thing for a bike, for me anyway.

oh, no I haven't. I still use my magicshine

700 lumens with 2 AAA batteries? HAHAHAHAHA! No effing way.

Actually, the bike light works well as a flash light. Some of us have two bike lights and that older one with less lumen ratings works good enough as a flash light. And those rear blinkies, I used them at the airport when I need to wait at the curb for my ride. It often gets busy and the driver has somewhat of a difficulty locating me.

. . . with a defuser lens, mounted to the fork, above the fender. However, my helmet light has a, traditional, round, headlight pattern.

oh that must work out well for ya! sounds like a good combo

That's what I was thinking. The runtime must be about 5 minutes too.

Junk. For a review go to Budget light forum.