I'm new to cycling and need a light. I need one that's pretty bright and waterproof but I'd like it to be relatively cheap.

I've read up on many lights priced £10-£30 but, unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of mixed reviews. Does anyone have anything they could recommend?

Have you looked through either of the stickies in this forum yet? Lot's of good info there.

What kind of riding are you doing and how long of runtime do you need?

I can't believe I didn't see the sticky at the top. Sorry!

This post shines some light of this forum's weakness. And that is too much information and not enough guidance on how to use it.

For instance one of the "sticky threads" at the top starts with info from 2003 ,and "edited up" for 2005 - gee whiz.........

I don't know exactly how to stop it, but so many of the information websites are becoming their own info swamps.

A couple of things any new head light consumer needs to ask, how much ($) , how bright (lumen,lux or watts) and how to find the right compromise of each for my individual cycling needs.

Right now everything works backward from the "lights" - eventually traveling back the starting point - the cyclist's needs!

As near I can tell, this forum is crying out for sub-forums..... jus' sayin'

Well this is going slightly off-topic, but I've used forums with more subforums and those suck to. I already have to check 4 or 5 different forums I'm interested in reading - I'd rather not have to check 15 of them. Plus there's already overlap. Say I want to ask about a good commuter light - will I get better responses in the "Lighting" section or the "Commuting" section? (Truth is, the Commuting forum just has more readers so I'd probably get a better response there).

What I'd really like to see is to go to the forum and create a page that lists out all the new threads in the subforums I choose, so like road, mountain, commuting, lighting, but not advocacy, folding bikes, etc.

Sorry...I guess I've gone totally off-topic eh? I'd respond to the OP's question, but I don't know how much £10-£30 translates into in US dollars.

No sub forums please. It just time to update the stickies. Or unpin them if they are so old as to be useless.

And £10-£30 translates to around $15 to $55 US. Not much money for a light.