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Old November 14th 13, 01:05 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Nate Nagel[_2_]
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Default New B&M Lights with Wide Beam and Daytime Mode Available

On 11/13/2013 07:34 PM, sms wrote:
On 11/13/2013 3:34 PM, Andre Jute wrote:

Whether these new lamps are desirable -- speaking now to cyclists who
aren't BUMMbuddies (who always have to have the latest BUMM lamps, and
think they're the greatest because they're the latest) -- depends on
whether BUMM have fixed the problems of the wretched recent series of
Cyo, most notably the gross hotspot.


Companies are finally learning to design optics specifically for LEDs
rather than trying to re-use the optics that they used for decades on
incandescent lamps. They also seem to now realize that they have
sufficient light that they don't have to focus all the available light
onto a small patch of road directly in front of the bicycle.

The last few lights I've purchased have had almost no hotspot. You can
see a slight hotspot if you look really closely but you'd have to be
actually looking for it. All of these have had spot to zoom optics.

The next goal of B&M should be to offer a version of their product with
optics and features that are highly desirable but that are not allowed
to be sold in Germany. Either they can follow what Supernova did and
state that the lights are not for on-road use, or they can do a version
for the rest-of-world with symmetrical optics and a flash mode. It would
greatly expand their TAM.


Why the **** would they take a perfectly good light and give it a
****tier beam pattern and a useless flash mode? Do you have any idea
what makes a good headlight, Mr. Self-Proclaimed Expert, or do you just
talk talk talk and never listen?


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