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[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Feels safer than day riding too with a 2000LM light.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You turn it down when a car approaches right?

Right?

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Well my light is angled downwards hopefully it's not a problem. But I'm not sure if it's actually brighter than modern car lights.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'll be honest i hate those really bright lights. I get blind spots in my vision when coming across them during daytime already and don't want to imagine how blind they'd make me at night. I also don't see the use of them. I have my small light that came with my bike and see by far enough at night.

[–] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Would you mind posting a link to your lamp on Amazon?

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Make sure to buy lights that follow German StVZO regulations if you're on the road. They're not necessarily expensive. they have controlled beams with a horizontal cutoff so they don't blind people, like motor vehicle lights.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 months ago

Based on the link in his other comment, it does have horizontal cutoff

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Actually I got it on Aliexpress (link). There might be better priced options but I got this one because it comes with an adaptor for GoPro mounts so I could mount it under my bike computer. It's otherwise much too heavy and large to mount on handlebars.