![]() ![]() It’s simple and versatile, thanks to its decent mounting system, but there are brighter lights available at this price. The rear light is sadly less impressive, packing only 20 lumens of light and a modest battery life. ![]() It even has a USB port to allow you to use it as a battery pack to charge other gadgets (such as your phone, for example). The 900-lumen setting is more of an emergency turbo boost mode, but battery life on the 800-lumen setting is excellent, providing just over two hours of run time. The PR900 front light is the real star of this set, offering a novel, twin-lens design and enough power to make it suitable for riding on unlit roads or even off-road. 900 lumens front, 20 lumens rear at max power.The Ravemen PR900 front and Ravemen TR20 rear light package is let down by the rear light. Read our full Lezyne Lite Drive 1000XL front and Lezyne KTV Pro Drive 75 rear lights review.The rear light puts out a slightly middling 75 lumens at full power, but does offer an impressive 270 degrees of visibility. The tough, rubber-band style mounting system makes adding/removing the lights a cinch, though they’re arguably a little less secure than ratcheted or bolt-mounted options. Its CNC-machined aluminium build quality is excellent too, and its IXP7 waterproof rating is very welcome. You’ll only get around 80 minutes at this power, but dropping it down to the second highest output (which sits at 500 lumens) provides just under three hours of run time, which ought to be enough for even the longest of commutes. ![]() With 1,000 lumens at full power, Lezyne’s Lite Drive 1000XL provides more than enough brightness and beam spread for riding on unlit roads. 1,000 lumens front, 75 lumens rear at max power.Bright with excellent peripheral lighting.Versatile light set with an excellent build quality.The Lezyne Lite Drive 1000XL front and Lezyne KTV Pro Drive 75 rear lights are super well-made. It’s a beautifully made light, if expensive, although there are lower-priced options that don’t include the AKTiv tech. Setup is fiddly both for the alloy mount and for the different beam patterns, which you need to select with the light off, meaning you have to go through the process again if you don’t like the result. When it comes time to recharge, Exposure has its own proprietary cable. Run time is around two hours on full power. The light even detects if you’ve mounted it above or below the bars and adjusts the beam pattern to the different orientations. You can wire in a remote for bar-top control as well.Īn LED display on the rear shows residual battery and runtime. It’s got even more tech built in, with optional detection of oncoming traffic, which automatically dips the beam – a useful feature with such high output. The latest Strada Mk11 SB AKTiv road light is now up to 1,600 lumens from 1,200 lumens a few years ago. A well-designed, high-tech, high-performance illuminatorĮxposure has been making high-performance, high-tech lights in the UK for over a decade and is adding more power and extra functionality year by year.The Strada has a maximum output of 1,600 lumens.
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