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01-19-10 | 08:17 AM

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Bicycling lighting recommendations

Bicycling mag is promoting a couple products that look pretty cool. Anybody have any experience with either of these? The joystick is a little pricey but it has me curious especially as a tail light. If the Dinotte is 120 lumens and this is over 200, holy cow!

https://www.ibexsports.com/exposurelightsjoystick.html

https://knog.com.au/Product.aspx?productId=242

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01-19-10 | 09:55 AM

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I don't find either the Joystick nor the Knog that impressive. You can do better than the Joystick for less money. And no light is going to have a high output when it runs on 2 coin batteries as the Knog does.

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01-19-10 | 01:15 PM

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Bicycling magazine promotes its advertisers. Check out the MTB Review headlight shootout, which indicates the Magicshine to be the most bang-for-the-buck headlight, outdoing many costlier alternatives:

https://reviews.mtbr.com/blog/2010-mtbr-lights-shootout/

01-19-10 | 01:23 PM