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Message started by kingjason on May 24^th, 2012, 2:49am

Title: Blackburn 3.3 Voyager VS Niterider Minewt 600
Post by kingjason on May 24^th, 2012, 2:49am

Ok for all you guys that ride at night or early morning what kind of lights do you use? My first ride a few months back was no light and that was iffy at best just poking along. Second ride I strapped a flashlight to my helmet and it actually gave off enough light to kinda make out the edges of what I was looking at but still horrible. Then I bought a blackburn voyager kit from the bike shop. Ehhh the headlight made the ride a tad better and the tail light was great but still left a lot to be desired. Rode with it one night, it was raining, and the visibilty was terrible so I ordered the Niterider 600 when I got home. Got my Niterider set up on my helmet and all I can say is wow. I could ride on high or low and have plenty of light. I got it off Ebay for 99.00 shipped so not a bad deal at all. Comes with the charger, helmet and bike mount. I am going to put the hard mount on my Strada tonight and see how it does on a recumbent. I have been cheating on my Strada with a 7.5 FX. The Strada has been on my new trainer and I will say an hour on the trainer is more of a workout then a hour on the street.

Blackburn 3.3 kit 30 bucks or so. It does a hair better then the camera shows but not much. I couldn't believe all the positive reviews it got online for commuting unless they are riding fairly well lit roads.
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp330/kingjason2006/Bikes%20and%20parts/IMAG0426.jpg

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp330/kingjason2006/Bikes%20and%20parts/IMAG0432.jpg

Niterider 600 for 99.00
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp330/kingjason2006/Bikes%20and%20parts/IMAG0428.jpg
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp330/kingjason2006/Bikes%20and%20parts/IMAG0425.jpg

The other one. Shhhhh don't tell my Strada.

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp330/kingjason2006/Bikes%20and%20parts/IMAG0343.jpg

Title: Re: Blackburn 3.3 Voyager VS Niterider Minewt 600
Post by Kwijybow on May 24^th, 2012, 3:13pm

maybe you got one with a dud LED. That looks unusable!

Title: Re: Blackburn 3.3 Voyager VS Niterider Minewt 600
Post by kingjason on May 24^th, 2012, 5:56pm

Kwijybow wrote:

maybe you got one with a dud LED. That looks unusable!

It helps a little more than that picture shows. For just tooling around at low speeds it will illuminate the trail a tad, just not a usable amount at speed. I would have to say it would be even worse on a recumbent. I will say this about the new light, it is a bit freaky seeing all the critters eyeballing you at night.

After hours of searching for comparisons I found this jewel of a site. Very nice testing.

http://eddys.com/articles/how-bright-is-that-light-ig493/

Title: Re: Blackburn 3.3 Voyager VS Niterider Minewt 600
Post by kingjason on May 25^th, 2012, 4:56am

Put it on the Strada tonight and it worked fairly well. No issues riding with it other then it wanted to dip a little after hitting some rough spots in the trail. I think I fixed that problem after I re snapped it to the mount the second time. It was really good on the forward mount and pretty terrible on my helmet. The helmet mount is fantastic on the Trek FX but not to good on the recumbent. It illuminates to much of your legs and the bike, not to mention it renders your mirror useless.