The best light comparison ever! Thanks so much. Please more such videos!

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Great informations about bike light! Thanks Cykling Weekly! and as always good video!

Excellent review by real educated humans. No robot audio.

The dark room side by side comparison was huge! Thanks for that. It's nice to see how five brands compare in the same room with the same camera without any editing. They were all supposed to be around 800 lumens but some lights definitely make better use of that light

We need more practical reviews like this!!

Sirius for me. Great comparison, covered just about everything I need to know for my rides in the dark country lanes.

I would recommend looking at the Olight RN 1500, I personally use it and find it really great and also has a few practical light settings.

Just put the Lezyne 1000 lumen light on my yesterday and rode last night. Brilliant!

I bought a Lezyne 600XL a couple of weeks ago and I already own a 450XL and 400XL (the last two are a few years old) and it's pretty good as the others still are.....Full mode does eat up some power, but two up front off-roading on drop bars or MTB's does the job pretty well for a couple of hours...I always take spare lights as well just in case.... Was looking at some Exposure lights as they get good write ups but I'm put off by the price....

Cateye for me. The only one that fits half decently to my aero handlebar. Light output is pretty good as well. Maybe the Knog as an eventual second choice, depending on the ability to mount it as good and steady as the Cateye. Without a non-round handlebar mounting option, the others become irrelevant.

Thanks for the video. Would love to see a rear light version.

25:45 I thought I was watching The Ring for a second 😱 Interesting comparison vid,. Thank you 👍

Garmin Varia 800 lumen 5 mode light and Garmin Varia Radar for me. I think more riders should decide to install lighting. There is way to many distracted cell phone distracted drivers in tech laden vehicles. Unfortunately the weight weenies and wannabe racers feel it takes away from performance and the looks of the bike. Great video and much needed. Thank you. Ride safe and ride often. Peace.

Thank you very much for this in-depth review. I quite agree with you, with the increasing number of light/intensity/color combinations, ergonomics and simplicity are becoming preponderant criteria, along with sturdiness or even power, depending on the context. In addition, and this is quite recent, there's even an integration criterion (for Garmin afionados). Practical tests - in real life - are by far the best, as they can also express a feeling for the terrain that doesn't necessarily appear on paper. My heart would probably also have gone out to the Exposure one. Thank you very much, very useful test.

Brilliant review, we need more reviews like this...

Nitecore BR25 in front and MagicShine SeeMee300 tail light. Both lights have the amazing feature to light under the bike so the be seen desiderate is furfilled.

If you have a Trek bike with Blendr, get their lights. The rear mounts to the top of the saddle stem with a clip and the front onto the handlebar stem using a Blendr adapter. The ion Pro is 1300 lumens. You can control them with a little switch that fits in place of a bar plug or with a Garmin computer (not Wahoo at the moment unfortunately).

Very detailed… thanks… pulled the trigger at exposure

Thanks both. Audio very good.

Very detailed analysis, especially like the beam pattern demonstration. Exposure seemed too concentrated,and the side would be blined by the light in the center The keyptonite has its point, since it doesnt blind the on coming cars and pedestrians

Good test with the wall and light output.

Great review, had a number of different lights over the years and Lezyne never disappoints, just picked up a Lezyne Macro Drive 1300XL for £80. This lights up the street and when as you say get to the setting you want the number of settings is unimportant as you will generally run the same setting through the winter.

A NiteRider Lumina light would have been a good one to have there too. They have comparible Lumen models as those lights in the video.

This was extremely interesting, especially the way that much cheaper lamps with comparable performance were completely excluded from the test - and not even mentioned in passing.

Have you heard about the Garmin Varia RTL515? It has a radar that shows indication on your Garmin bike computer or Wahoo element of car's approaching you from behind

"Knog do things slightly differently, they are kind of a cool company..." means that instead of hiring engineers they hired hipster marketing guys... I have a Knog rear light, and although it looks great, it is very poor as a product. Definitely learnt my lesson and will not spend my money in their products again...

Most Lezyne lights have race mode, reducing the light setting to two modes (high and low). This is great for riding at night!!!

Subscribed! I want to see more of her in my future , lol! Also, those couches did not look comfortable

One piece of information that is important to me is whether you can run the light while charging since many of my rides are over 3 hours.

Handy video. Will you do rear lights as well?

Would have been nice to see the Halfords 1600 lumen light as this is only £50 , excellent light I've had mine for a year now runs full blast for around 2 hours, not one of their sponsors so not included.

Whatever you do don't buy a knog. I have had about 10 various models, the light is fine but they are always let down with build and material issues. Also that model of lezyne is great, I've got the 1500xxl, but it shares the same charging system as the others and it does have issues with the Usb connector failing, it is their Achilles heel.

The CateEye light feels high quality, and is bright BUT my unit quickly developed a fault while on a ride in the rain. I suspect its waterproofing is poor.

Looking forward to the see.sence beam

Enfinix Navi800, 800lm and perfect for mounting under GPS, look it up

I think you should have to the test also the Garmin Varia UT800...

For me personally, a multi-mode bike haedlight is the better choice for road driving. In this way, the lighting can be adjusted according to the environment to suit the scene.

Is there a light that still runs while it's being charged on a portable battery?

good job guys

Is it a stupid question that why did you not tested these bike lights outdoor at night? I dont need any light if I want to ride inside in my room. The only valid, useful test about a bike light is going outside far away from any town and test it on a road or a trail.

No one ever seems to mention the actual lifespan of those lights that have a built in batteries - it's no good telling us that the light lasts for x hours when it the unit lasts barely a year. It's why I'll probably get something that has replaceable batteries this time round.

The lezyne 1600XXL is the daddy, fantastic beam great modes. Can be used on and off road good battery life👍

Love my ravemen pr1600

what is the gear ratio?

We certainly don't need a hot spot flashlight!!! What we need in someone to make an aftermarket 'road lens' for a flashlight, which makes it a flat broad beam....now you can focus a flat beam, totally ideal...

aliexpress import £4 ,probably my longest lasting. cateye gave up on about 4 years ago,, all of the expensive ones i have bought over the years have lasted at best 2 years ..

Yeah yeah what tjeir not telling u fellow ridets is what the weight on the handle is thats important to advent riders ametures etc etc

Maybe I was unlucky but I had awful customer service from Exposure with one of their rear lights that kept randomly switching off mid ride. Exposure begrudgingly 'repaired' it and it came back with the same fault! Then said it was my fault. Thankfully the retailer Tredz offered me a refund and i got a Lezyne which was perfect. Won't buy Exposure again which is a shame as normally look to support quality UK companies, but their attitude was terrible.

All are bitween 60€ and 85€ and they are around 800 lumens, Astrolux bl02 has 1200 lumens, flood and long range mode, remote control for 30€!

For road cycling at night I would recommend the Lezyne Pro 115+ StVZO (German road safety regulation). It has 310 Lumen / 115Lux, 4:30h run time in the brightest setting, brings plenty of light to the road without blinding oncoming traffic. But no blinking modes, since those are forbidden under the StVZO. There is also a cheaper, smaller version with 2:15h run time at max. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdxgeq-pnMCUZ3U.html

Where is Cycolite ? Some of the best!!!

Look on aliexpress, a fraction of the price and just as good if not better

Our Lezyne Drive 1500XXL failed after about a year of regular use. It would no longer take a charge. During the time it worked, the light programming button drove us nuts - too easy to get in the wrong mode and then you have to figure out how to push the button for the exact time needed to get it back in the right mode. Lezyne customer service was not helpful. We've had several other brands, Cateye, Dinotte, Light&Motion, Niterider - all of which have lasted through years of use. So, I'd steer away from Lezyne.

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magicshine rn3000 kills all these!

Nice job god bless

Could you test decathlon too next time

Where is garmin, olight, astrolux,fenix lights?

Michelle is cool! GNC has become so 'corporate', I like the vibe here better :)

hey! show something that will stick for 2 hours with good brightness at 0 degrees Celsius.

You didn't put a Niterider in there??? One of the most popular lights and you leave it out? Shame.

30ft? 10 metres would be a better distance to use today. My kids in their 20's don't understand feet/inches

1-2 hour battery duration, especially for an +/- 800 lumen output - is a joke: you can't even do a proper night ride within that time. Fenix has a model (BC26R) that will last a stated 3.5 hours at double that output and 9.5 hours at 600 lumen output. It also has a removable battery and an integrated charging circuitry (USB-C). I wish, there were very affordable, compact and light bicycle headlights capable of 10000 lumen output, a duration of at least 20-30 hours (at that output!), with removable batteries and in-unit charging (like the Fenix in question) and support for solar charging (highly efficient at that).

Great video. It's a real shame the Exposure light has a proprietary cable. I hope the company eventually use usb-c ports on all their products in the future.

I'm just gonna say...Kryptonite is SHI* :)

Countdown 1600 ....done

Never buy an 'Exposure' again. Faulty on - off switch right from the start. The remote switch worked for about 2 years before it conked out as well. To me just expensive garbage. The Lezyne 1800i is bomb proof, never looked back.

No Niterider or Moon Lights, PAH!!!

The exposure was ok but the rest looked rubbish.

I use lights from a flashlight manufacturer named Olight. Not their bike models. For the money you get lots and lots of light with long run times and a five year warranty. You can't beat that. The companies that make bike specific lights are just digging in cyclists pockets.

Decent enough presentation, but my goodness, share the discussion a bit more! Michelle barely had a word until three quarters of the way through. It's 2022, so let's act like it.

There are better and cheaper lights available from AliExpress. We’re never going to see a comparison here because those companies are not sponsoring 😂

never say nothing about it they're waterproof

for winter only? wtf is wrong with youtube suggesting this garbage?

A good review in terms of content but spoilt for me by the male presenter hogging the mic and talking over the female presenter.

Try talking normally rather than you are trying to squeeze something out .

Sorry people but all these lights suck .their weighty on ur handle bar and they will.go kaput the first drop of rain