On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 8:57:44 PM UTC-8, Oculus Lights wrote:
If winning the World 24 Hour Time Trial Championship meets your standards,
then Oculus is the undisputed World's Fastest Bike Light. I also had three of the top ten, a handful of age group winners, and three of the seven front row starters too,
The new world champion, Martin Bendszus, from Germany, and most others used a power and brightness combination that gave them ~500 lumens for 6+ hours on the brand new Oculus
3000Extreme. Some earlier Oculus customers used a 10 hour or 5 hour setting on their Oculus 1800Ultra.
Interestingly, a few racers introduced themselves as original Kickstarter backers, still loving their lights.
Martin covered 514.8 miles at 21.6mph average for 23 hours 56 minutes. An early hours surge in daylight by one conventional and one recumbent rider left Martin in third place by about 20 minutes. After full darkness took hold, Martin gained time each lap til he took the lead around 3:00AM, and held on through the daylight for the win. Second place was 510 miles in 23 hours 50 minutes at 21.4mph, less than three miles back. That's an average difference of only 220 yards per hour over 24 hours.
Oculus was the official onsite lighting sales and support for the World Championships. As a result of the event and glowing praise from an increasing number of well known distance racers and RAAM winners, Oculus will be the official headlight of RAAM and its related races for 2018.



Proper nutrition and conditioning can make an unbelievable difference. Not on the same scale, in local tts when I was in race shape, I could average 24mph for ~50k.
The biggest physical challenge in TT riding is to stay tucked in aero position endlessly. For ultra-distance, taking or avoiding nature stops by peeing from the bike, and rapid feedzone handoffs in the dark, can cost or save minutes that add up. Keeping up 10 or 15+mph instead of needing to slow to 5 or a full stop saves the gradual wear and tear on the legs of getting back up to speed. In advance, condition the digestive system to go on a liquid diet.
I would like to see Martin's average heartrate. Beyond the devout training he did, he must also be amazingly genetically gifted.
Oculus Lights' role is in greatly reduced eye and brain fatigue to see and process maneuvering in the dark. The comment has come before from many ultra and MTB enduro racers, that the Oculus beam really does get you riding faster in the dark for the same perceived level of physical and mental effort.