It’s night riding season! Some of us are clearly excited, while others grudgingly accept the loss of daylight riding hours in the northern hemisphere.
Like every other aspect of mountain biking, there are many ways to dial in one’s light setup for riding in the dark. In fact, we tested three common configurations with mixed results, which suggests there’s no right or wrong answer.
It may be an older system however, the venerable TurboCat S47 is the dual beam that I benchmark lighting quality with. I still use the S47 at this point. Finding an MR11 LED that does the equivalent of a 35 watt halogen is a challege… Low beam is very well suited for most of my night deeds but the high beam is like KC Daylighters on Jeep! On the ride home, there is a dark back street that I use and cars use their high beams often… Until I hit my high beam and show em what a real high beam looks like!
Gotta love it Sunspot, nailin’ drivers with their high beams on. Waaaaay funny!
It serves their careless asses right! Put on your Oakleys and how ya like my high beam??? 😀