Best bike light for night riding on unlit roads

My light of choice is the

Forget all that, can’t find the PAVA light anymore, best light I’ve found for high speed night time runs.

Simon E wrote:

There are very few road-specific battery lights on the market. If you have deep pockets then consider USE Exposure models such as the Strada, which they say is “tailored for tarmac “. I find 400 lumens is plenty on country lanes, providing the beam spread is wide enough, which has always been a weak point of Cateye lights.

Reviews and beam comparison via http://road.cc/category/review-section/accessories/lights-front

Cygolite Metro Pro 1100 looks good value. Lezyne claim the Macro 1100 will run for 4½ hours at 450L – is that long enough? http://www.lezyne.com/products-led.php

Another beam comparison page – https://www.tredz.co.uk/lights-comparison-test

 

At least 40 on the rosebikes website. Ok, not all great lights, but some choice. The Ixon IQ Premium will do about 5 hours on full, and uses AA batteries, so easy enough to extend that, and is adequate  on most roads

Buy a multi-led xml-l2 light
Buy a multi-led xml-l2 light with 18650 batteries or battery pack from ebay and lower its beam as much as it is needed not to blind oncoming traffic.

You missed the massive sale

You missed the massive sale retailers were having on lights like the Moon Meteor Vortex Pro. They are normally around £80 or just under it but we’re selling for as low as £35 in some places. You can also pick up a spare battery for £15 to give you from dawn to dusk battery life so long as you’re not going at full bore all the time.  For the dunwich dynamo ive used lights like the fluxient u2 mini, magicshine 858 and 872. Both of them are superb and very bright.  i tend to run either on the lowest or medium setting and have them angled down at the road a little more to avoid blinding other road users, you can do this with pretty much any light 

I came across an interesting

I came across an interesting side to the brighter is better argument last week. Oncoming cyclist was probably indicating to turn right when faced with oncoming traffic, I couldn’t see due to the 20,000 lumen (or whatever the cockfest says you must have) light they were using. Fortunately I’m a considerate twat when driving and didn’t mow them down. Rider must have assumed that I’d seen the indication as they pulled right across me, like I said, I’m a considerate twat when it comes to fragile cyclists.

Battery or dynamo? Dynamo,

Battery or dynamo? Dynamo, pretty much any of the Gerrman lights will work tolerably well- I’ve had problems with the Luxos U, but the Supernova road specific light is ok. Battery – the Ixon IQ Premium, essentially the battery version of some dynamo light or other, is usable, although the battery compartment isn’t wonderfully built.

To my mind, although these lights are generally ok, the beams are too narrow for some situations – on some bends one effectively has to ride into darkness – bit scary at times.

Petsonally on dark roads I still prefer the Lumicycle 3si (now the Freeway) – the beam is less controlled, but (or therefore) mote generally usable on dark roads.