Another vote for the IQ-X. It's terrifically bright, well-shaped, well-constructed, and the standlight is quite bright and long-lasting.
A much cheaper option is a Herrmans (eg https://www.modernbike.com/herrmans-headlights), which I tried recently. I have an MR-4. It's actually rather bright and decently shaped, but the construction is shabby (the lens pops off entirely at the slightest provocation) and the capacitor must be tiny: the light flickers in a terribly distracting way at low speeds, and the standlight is very weak. The flickering problem is bad enough that I switch the light off when I have to walk it more than a few feet. But if you're "going" a lot more than you're wheeling (or riding below 5 MPH), it's a good value. -Sam On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 1:20:51 AM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > Thanks, Brian and Jeffrey. > > I'm afraid that the Sinewave Beacon is out; I need something with > German-spec (or, generally, traffic-appropriate) beam shape. The S Beacon > must be much like my K-Lite: wonderfully bright, but it just blasts the > light out there.* > > The B&M IQ X seems the darling: German beam, very bright, very broad, good > standlight, metal case, and half the price of the Edeluxe. What's not to > like? I'll be interested in others' opinions. > > Really, the Edeluxe 1 is quite enough for night commuting along familar > roads and paths, even in full darkness and with my poor night vision, but > turning dark corners at speed is anxious-making. And I generally mount a > good battery headlight for occasional use, which serves at the longer stop > lights. Still, for now, the IQ X is at the top of the list. > > Aside: I remember the IQ Fly: wonderful compared to my Sanyo and other > bottle dynamos + incandescent headlights, but man! How weak compared to the > Edeluxe! > > OTOH, I did use a 12 volt very high end and very expensive ($300 20 years > ago?) bottle + mating incandescent halogen headlight. This was as bright as > many top line LED lights from 20 years ago. > > *Last March I rode home from church at 8:30 or 9 pm in a sudden heavy > snowfall. The K-lite just blasted photons out into the cosmic void and all > the jolly wet big snowflakes cheerfully blasted them back at me. I could > see almost nothing beyond the bar unless I rode with 1 hand cupping the top > of the beam. > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 2:39 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The nice bright (plastic) headlight on the Dahon was a Lumotec IQ >> something or another, again, no longer made. >> > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e4889322-3159-45fb-ac65-dd388d88114bn%40googlegroups.com.
