{"id":6020,"date":"2013-01-18T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2013-01-18T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T07:19:36","slug":"really-good-bike-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/really-good-bike-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Good Bike Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6021\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight-200x122.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight-50x30.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bikelight.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was riding down a foggy, dark Berkeley hill over the summer thinking, &#8220;I can&#8217;t see the road! I&#8217;m going to get killed!&#8221; So I got a bright bike light. I only ended up paying $50 on Amazon and I&#8217;m quite happy with it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is literally as bright as a car headlight! I&#8217;ve pulled up at stop lights and the light it cast is comparable to the low beams of the cars next to me. I can see the road!<\/li>\n<li>It took a full month to arrive from Hong Kong. But it looks like they are shipping from the US now.<\/li>\n<li>You definitely want to get the wide angle lens, otherwise one spot is lit brilliantly and you can&#8217;t much see the rest of the road.<\/li>\n<li>The battery lasts something like 1.5 to 3 hours.<\/li>\n<li>The ONLY problem I have is that it runs full strength until it runs out&#8230; which means it could die unexpectedly on the road. So I carry my old 1 watt light when I&#8217;m travelling a long distance at night.<\/li>\n<li>I tried to take photos of the light at night but they didn&#8217;t come out well. I&#8217;ll just say that the hard-to-believe-bright images on Amazon and elsewhere are real<\/li>\n<li>It isn&#8217;t perfectly balanced on my handlebar so when I hit a bump, it jiggles. But it&#8217;s pretty good&#8230; and just $50! Wait&#8230; they lowered the price, looks like it&#8217;s $30 + $10 for the lens&#8230;  \u00a0total $40!<\/li>\n<li>$40, wow! REI sells similarly bright headlamps for around $200. I hope this one isn&#8217;t going to give me cancer or something<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the products:<br \/>\n4 Mode 1200 Lumen CREE XML T6 Bulb LED Bicycle bike HeadLight Lamp Flashlight Light Headlamp (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006QQX3C4\/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00\">Amazon link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Wide Angle Lens for MagicShine, Gemini, and many other Bike Lights \/ Headlight (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004WLCLQY\/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00\">Amazon link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was riding down a foggy, dark Berkeley hill over the summer thinking, &#8220;I can&#8217;t see the road! I&#8217;m going to get killed!&#8221; So I got a bright bike light. I only ended up paying $50 on Amazon and I&#8217;m quite happy with it. It is literally as bright as a car headlight! I&#8217;ve pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}