It's dark and grim out there so be safe and be seen with the best bike lights. In this group test Michelle and James put five brands against each other.
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00:00A good front light is an important part of your riding safety arsenal, and not just for
00:17winter.
00:18A decent front light can be an excellent partner to keep you visible during the day, and of
00:21course helps you to see the way when you're riding at night.
00:25We've chosen five front lights here from some of the market leaders, and we're going to
00:30showcase and compare them to find out what are the features you need to be looking at
00:35when you're choosing the right bike light for yourself.
00:38We are comparing and contrasting these, and we will pick a winner, which is the most recommended
00:43product of these five, at the end of this video.
00:47Now these are all lights for seeing.
00:50We generally break lights into two different categories, there are lights for being seen
00:55and lights for seeing.
00:57These all come into that second category.
00:59There are more powerful lights that you can use, but these are five that really give you
01:05all the features you need, they've got enough light for you to actually see the way properly,
01:11and best of all, they won't break the bank in terms of how much they cost.
01:15If we look at them from the left to the right, what we have here is we have Lezyne's Micro
01:20Drive Pro 800XL, next to the Lezyne is Xposure's Sirius Mark 9 Daybright.
01:28In the middle we have Nog's Blinder Rode 600.
01:32We then have the CatEye Amp 800, last but not least we have the Kryptonite Insight X6.
01:40So James has been testing all of these five lights for our magazine group test, so you've
01:44been putting them through their paces for quite some time, and we're going to run through
01:49the key features and I'm hopefully going to ask all the questions, the burning questions
01:54that you, the readers and viewers, have.
01:57So if we start with the Lezyne, because that's right here in front of me, yep, so first of
02:02all it's got a maximum of 800 lumens that's claimed from the dual front LEDs.
02:10There are in total eight different light modes.
02:15So you need eight.
02:17Now this is one of my issues with this, if we want to talk about some of the problems,
02:22as well as some of the real good things about it, there's almost too many.
02:25So the issue with it is there's five different standard non-flashing light settings, and
02:33then three flashing settings.
02:36In total it's crazy amounts, and the thing as well is some of those you can only activate
02:42by pressing a button in a certain way, so the way that it works you've got a single
02:46button on the top like so, press it once, nothing happens, but it does show you a different
02:53colour on the top, and that colour indicates how much battery life it's got, so that's
02:56a really neat feature about it, so you can see if you need to charge it or not.
03:00So press and hold it, and obviously the light turns on.
03:03Then cycle through, goes one like this, and it doesn't tell you which mode you're in,
03:09so that's kind of like the one slight issue.
03:11It does have a memory, so when you turn it off, when you turn it back on again, it will
03:16turn it back on on that mode that you're on, but what I found when I was using it was I
03:21would be putting it on a mode going, is that the brightest setting?
03:25I can't work out if it's the brightest setting, so I'd click it down, and then you kind of
03:28go, oh I can't remember, so you have to like go through them all, and there's so many you
03:30have to go through.
03:32In terms of how long it lasts, this is one of the areas that it does do very well.
03:36So it's got decent electronics inside, so even in that highest, brightest setting it
03:41will last for nearly two hours, or an hour and 45 minutes is pretty much what they claim,
03:45and I got it to run for about that length of time as well, so it's pretty decent.
03:49All the way up to the femto setting, which is the 15 lumen lowest setting, will last
03:54for 80 odd hours.
03:56And charging wise, it's got a standard USB-B sort of charging, so it charges about four
04:02hours or so to do that, which is nice, and because it's a standard sort of cable, we've
04:08got them, everyone's got them, so that's really neat.
04:10And the weatherproofing is brilliant.
04:12So I used another Lezyne light when I did Landon, John and Groats last year, and it
04:16was on my fork leg the entire time, rained every day, and I had no issues with water.
04:22And the same goes for these, they're absolutely bomb-proof lights.
04:26And the other good thing as well, the strap, so the bracket on here, is obviously designed
04:31to sort of fit around a round handlebar, but you can use it on aero handlebars, and this
04:36is one of the things that a lot more people have got now, and it's one of the things that
04:39when we tested these, we worked out if you'd use them, and you can take off this little
04:44adapter like so, and then it means you can actually run it on a much bigger diameter
04:49handlebar, and it's still rubber and grippy, and so that's brilliant.
04:54So this is actually the cheapest light on the test.
04:58So it retails at £60, which is really good for the actual capacity, the brightness and
05:04everything that we've got.
05:06And next, we have the Xposure Sirius Mark IX Daybright.
05:10I'm going to call it the Sirius from now on, okay?
05:12I mean, you've got to love an Xposure, who doesn't love an Xposure light?
05:15So for those people that don't know, Xposure is a British brand, they make these in-house,
05:20so everything's machines, even like the lens itself, they manufacture in-house, and it's
05:25backed up with a pretty formidable customer service.
05:29This is the smallest on test, dinky, really, really little.
05:33It weighs just over 90 grams with the actual bracket itself, so it's the lightest on test
05:40by some way.
05:41So Xposure, it's a metal body, so it's machined aluminium, it's got some beautiful cooling
05:46fins on here as well, so it's allowing it to dissipate the heat.
05:50It produces up to 850 lumens, so it's on paper the most powerful here, but again, it has
05:59a few little tricks up its sleeve that kind of sets it apart.
06:02And I must say, at this point, this is also the most expensive light on the test, okay?
06:07So this retails at £100.
06:09It uses a very, very simple bracket, so this is just a simple piece of plastic that it
06:14clips into, which on the look of it, you go, that's not going to hold it in place, but
06:22it does.
06:23And I can testify this, because this is the same bracket that Xposure have used for over
06:29a decade.
06:30For over 10 years, they've used the same style of bracket.
06:33It just literally clips in like so, and it's solid, absolutely solid on there.
06:37So you can just leave that on your bike, or it's so simple, you can just take it on and
06:41off as well.
06:42So I tend to keep it all together, because if you lose that, well, you can't really use
06:46that.
06:47It uses its own charging cable, so that's the one thing about the Xposure system that
06:53some people might not like, is if you don't take your cable with you, well, you're a bit
06:58scuppered, really, so you can't just use any normal cable.
07:01It uses a little charging port in the back.
07:03It's got a real, real solid rubber cover on here, which is really waterproof, but this
07:08is one of my problems with this light, is it doesn't just pop on easily.
07:12You kind of have to really fiddle with it, so you can't just pop it on and off.
07:16The switch, there's a big chunky silver one on the back, but when you turn it on, it's
07:21a double-click to turn it on.
07:23You can see here, you've got different colours.
07:25So like the others, it has a traffic light system, so on the first click, it tells you
07:30which mode you're in, so it's really simple and really obvious from that point of view.
07:35So to access the flashing modes, you have to then press and hold it enough until it
07:40starts the flash mode, so you can't cycle through to that.
07:42But not so long that it turns it off.
07:44No.
07:45It's a press and hold middle ground.
07:46It's a fine line, fine line.
07:47And then if you press it again when you're in the flashing mode, it will return back
07:50to the constant.
07:51But then you have to press and hold it until it doubles flash to turn it off.
07:55So it has something called OMS, Optimised Mode Selector.
07:59It's user programmable settings.
08:02So there are actually seven different programme settings you can then choose, which basically
08:08tells you, or it can dictate how much light each mode sets at or gives out, or even how
08:13many modes you actually have.
08:15The technology in this is insanely good.
08:18There's some very, very cool features about it.
08:21What's also then good is the side visibility.
08:25Now, this is something that we often forget about road users, is when you're riding along,
08:30there's always cars and other people on the side.
08:32So this has got great cutouts on the side.
08:35So it's actually got very, very good visibility from the side.
08:38So I like that from that point of view.
08:40So that's really, really decent.
08:43In terms of runtime, well, as I said to you, you can programme this.
08:47So the highest, the 850 lumens will last for an hour and a half, which is brilliant.
08:52Then it will go all the way down to like sort of 36 hours in the lowest constant mode, flashing
08:58then for even longer than that.
09:00So it's got more than you ever really need.
09:02It's a bit more expensive.
09:04It's a bit confusing to use.
09:06And the last thing that kind of is a slight issue is if you've got aero handlebars, this
09:11bracket won't work as standard because this strap is too short.
09:16But they do sell a longer one.
09:18Then you're looking at another £5 on top.
09:20So you're looking at £105 compared to £60.
09:24So there is a bit of a difference in terms of price.
09:27So next on test, we have a Nog Blinder 600.
09:32As the name would suggest, 600 lumens, right?
09:35600 lumens.
09:36Nog do things slightly differently.
09:38They're kind of like a cool company when it comes to their lights.
09:41And they aim at like road users and commuters mainly.
09:44So they're super simple to use.
09:46Very, very small.
09:48And that one's great because it's designed to sit on the front of your handlebars.
09:53So it means it doesn't take up a lot of space on your handlebars themselves.
09:57So for like riding as normal, it's pretty brilliant from that point of view.
10:01And it's a real simple system as well.
10:03So it's just like almost like a little cam lock that just clips over the top.
10:06And it's pretty solid.
10:08So 600 lumens max.
10:10So that is the lowest power setting we have here.
10:13But it's still a very usable amount of power.
10:15And we will compare the beams as well just to see.
10:17Yeah, absolutely.
10:18And there's only four modes, which actually is one of the lowest choices on the list.
10:26And also what's quite nice is that on the top, it looks exactly like what's on the inside of your car.
10:32You've got that kind of half beam.
10:33You've got the full beam.
10:35So if someone is a little newer to cycling and maybe they've been driving a bit longer,
10:39those are very kind of standard signs that pretty much anyone would recognize,
10:44which I think is quite a nice touch.
10:46The real neat thing with this, as you're fiddling with it at the moment, is how you charge it.
10:51So underneath the bracket is a little USB plug.
10:56So you can either plug it into your laptop or plug, or it does come with a little cable.
11:02Yeah.
11:03There you go.
11:04It's sort of hanging around, right?
11:06It is.
11:08Most people would be aware that there's a massive thing sticking out the side of your laptop, so you wouldn't damage it.
11:14NOG do claim that it lasts, on the brightest setting, about an hour,
11:18up to nine hours on the lowest setting, like the flashing.
11:22So less than all the others.
11:24Less than the others, but then you can just plug it in every day and then you're all fine.
11:27Price-wise, this one isn't as cheap as some of the others, so it's $79.99.
11:32Wow. OK.
11:33So moving on, we have this fairly chunky unit, which is the CatEye Amp 800.
11:40And CatEye have been making bike lights and bike computers for as long as I've been going to bike shops.
11:48They're very often on the shop floor, aren't they?
11:51They're in the fossil record.
11:53But not this light in itself, as a brand.
11:56No, and this, I think, is one of the lights that is showing a turning for CatEye, I think.
12:03So it's aluminium, so it's decent in terms of heat dissipation as well.
12:08It's got a really, really good design to the lens.
12:13And overall, it's actually a pretty decent looking light.
12:17So, yep, it's got the original CatEye bracket.
12:22That's one of the things that people will either love or hate about it.
12:26It doesn't look like it's changed.
12:28I mean, it hasn't.
12:29Generally, brands are going towards the kind of elastic band sort of approach.
12:33And this is quite old school, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad school.
12:38No, because they don't fatigue.
12:40Rubber can fatigue.
12:42So I've had rubber bands snap.
12:44Those things don't snap.
12:46But again, you've got a bit of adjustability in terms of side by side or side to side movement,
12:51which is nice.
12:52It's easy to move on and off.
12:53And it means you can take the light, leave the bracket on.
12:56Jobs are good.
12:57It does clip off really easy as well.
12:58I find sometimes with elastic bands.
13:00I mean, generally, it's my preference, I have to admit.
13:02But with elastic bands, when you've got big gloves on, sometimes it's actually quite hard to operate it.
13:07Whereas this is really easy.
13:10And you've got side visibility as well.
13:12Yeah, there is a little bit of side visibility.
13:13So the lens extends around the side.
13:15It doesn't have any windows.
13:17So it just relies on light being reflected within that clear plastic.
13:21But it does have a bit there.
13:23When you press the button as well, like the first two lights, it does have an indicator as to battery life.
13:31So it uses a three coloured system.
13:33So blue, yellow and red.
13:35And then blue is obviously more than 50% charge.
13:39And then going down to where if you want to charge it.
13:42How many modes have I got here?
13:43So you've got in total five modes on that.
13:46So it's almost the sweet spot in terms of usability.
13:51So three constant settings, so high, medium, low.
13:54And then two flashing modes.
13:56As we said, it's 800 lumens and it will power that light for 800 lumens to up to an hour and a half.
14:02So it's pretty decent.
14:04All the way down to 30 hours for like the flash mode on there.
14:07The standard USB charging on there.
14:11I had misgivings about where the charge port is because it's at the bottom of the light in the front.
14:17So it does get covered in water.
14:20Yeah, well, funny enough, you've used these lights before.
14:22Yeah, so we had these for the Red Bull time-lapse event we did.
14:26And it did definitely rain.
14:27It was very wet.
14:29And they worked when we were using them for 24 hours.
14:32And they worked fine.
14:33Charged them up, no issues at all.
14:35And actually, yeah, even though the little rubber cap feels quite flimsy when you take it off.
14:39It pops in place so well.
14:41CatEye say you can use that as your helmet light.
14:43So they sell a bracket which is about £10 to fit on your helmet.
14:48And the other good thing about it is price-wise, £64.99.
14:52So it sits right in the middle.
14:55And I think it's got some great features about it as well.
14:59So I think CatEye back me up with that one.
15:02Finally, the last light that James has been putting to the test is the Kryptonite Insight X6.
15:09Now, this light is a little different to the rest, isn't it?
15:13Because we're not talking about lumens.
15:15We're talking about looks.
15:16Because Kryptonite has to be different.
15:18Yes.
15:19So if we start with that, everything else is measured in lumens.
15:24Which is an easy way for you to work out where things sit in terms of a tier.
15:29It's a comparative scale.
15:30Yeah, exactly.
15:32Whereas Kryptonite, you kind of go, right, lumens is great.
15:37But that basically measures the light power, the output from the light itself.
15:42It doesn't actually tell you what amount of that light lands on an object.
15:47Whereas lux is a measurement of the light to hit an object.
15:52I mean, the theory on lumens versus lux makes perfect sense.
15:57It tells you how much light you're actually going to be able to use, right?
16:03Yes, it's usable light, exactly.
16:04Exactly.
16:05It's £64.99, so it's actually a pretty decent price.
16:09And it's got some great features as well.
16:13So there are seven modes.
16:16So it's up there in terms of how many modes.
16:18But one of them is auto light sensing, which is pretty cool.
16:23Sounds fancy.
16:24So it means that basically it measures the ambient light and will adjust the brightness according to how much light it thinks you need.
16:32So when you turn it on, the great thing on the top is you've got two different sort of displays.
16:38So it's got a little readout on the top.
16:41And that tells you how many hours of battery life you have left in that mode.
16:46There's four little red LEDs at the bottom, which then tell you what mode and effective battery life.
16:52So it gives you different ways of actually quickly reading or properly reading how much battery life is left.
16:57I'm going to say it doesn't weigh as much as the Cat Eye one.
17:00It's actually the heaviest.
17:02Is it really?
17:03Yeah, yeah.
17:04Different material.
17:05Not by much.
17:06It's like 162 grams.
17:07So it's heavier.
17:09It takes up a bit more space on the bars.
17:12And it doesn't feel that quality.
17:15It's not very solid.
17:16It's plastic.
17:17No, it's plastic.
17:18As opposed to aluminium.
17:19When you turn it on, it's got two windows on the side.
17:21So it's good from that point of view.
17:23And the other real cool thing is that bracket.
17:25It's almost like a double safety system.
17:27So you've got like a reusable zip tie like that.
17:31And then you clip it up with the cam.
17:34I don't feel like it works as well as the Cat Eye one.
17:37Because I'm just thinking if this is on my handlebar, I've got limited space in here to flip this off, actually.
17:43It works fine off the bar.
17:44But as soon as I put it on the handlebar, I don't actually have that much space to get to that button.
17:48No, it's a little bit tricky, but you can do it.
17:51Like with practice, like anything else.
17:53With practice, you can get there.
17:56Standard USB charging.
17:57Yeah.
17:58So pretty decent.
17:59One thing I do have to say before we go to the beam test is this one here is probably the one that's going to make you the best friends with oncoming drivers.
18:11So the way that the beam is designed is designed to throw the light into a point that's usable for the rider and not to have any light escape upwards.
18:22So it means that you can angle the light exactly as you want it without fear that it's going to blind drivers.
18:29So it's now time for lights out.
18:31We're going to switch off the lights in here and we're going to run through each of the lights individually and have a look at the beam pattern and see how much of this room is illuminated and by what distance and what kind of spread the light has.
18:45So we've set the lights up all on one handlebar.
18:48They're in exactly the same position in the room and we'll run through each one.
18:54So looking at the design, I turn this on.
18:58So the entire back wall is illuminated.
19:02Yeah.
19:03I can stand here. I've got a pretty big shadow now.
19:06You've got a very wide and round light pattern there, haven't you?
19:11Yeah. So obviously when we look at it from this point of view, it's always difficult to see the exact beam pattern of it.
19:18But if you think about where you actually want to angle your light when you're actually out on your bike, you want it to be positioned at a point where the brightness is around about 30 feet ahead of you.
19:28So it gives you enough time to be able to anticipate anything that's coming.
19:32And then obviously means that you can see everything around it.
19:36First thing you notice is there is more of like a spotlight.
19:39So you've got a bright central part on here.
19:42So that's kind of a very characteristic of this type of light.
19:46Then there's quite a diffuse light.
19:48So even though we're stood at the side here, we're still illuminated here as well.
19:52So the good thing here is when you're riding, it means it's going to create an area of visibility that covers all aspects of the road.
20:01If we look at it on the side here, you can see there that you can see that classic sort of almost spotlight on there.
20:08It's that bright central setting.
20:10So that's the design. So if we move to the exposure light next.
20:14So I'm just going to turn this off.
20:15OK, so this is not dissimilar, I would say, but maybe a slightly brighter spotlight.
20:22So that key, that kind of pivotal key point is just a bit brighter.
20:27So if I was to turn this on and then turn the Lezyne on.
20:31So if I close that off, turn the Lezyne on. There's the Lezyne.
20:35Yeah.
20:36And then.
20:38Definitely that spotlight is brighter.
20:40The exposure is very, very good at putting the light where you need it.
20:44So it's a very, very bright spotlight on here.
20:48So you can see that you have that same sort of visibility on the outside as well.
20:54The area around that is still well illuminated.
20:56Huge, huge amount there.
20:59It is a brighter white light.
21:01So they use a different type of LED on their light.
21:04So you can see it's quite bright.
21:05So it's not as nice in the eyes, but it does pick things out properly when you're actually out and about.
21:12So that's the one noticeable difference there.
21:15Because it is so beam focused, so it's so central beam focused,
21:20the one thing you need to be aware of on this light is even though it's got a cap on the top,
21:24it's still going to be dazzling people.
21:26Just turn the Nog on.
21:27So this is in the brightest setting.
21:29So you've got both the LEDs working on here.
21:32And you can see straight away, we don't have that bright central section.
21:36It's still more of like what we call a floodlight than a spotlight.
21:41So whereas the first two were more of a concentrated sort of bright setting,
21:45this is more sort of an even spread of light.
21:48So, I mean, it gives you a good amount of light.
21:50There is a good amount of visibility.
21:52But I think if you're on unlit country lanes, you're less likely to have good visibility of things like potholes,
21:58debris that you want to avoid.
22:00I think you would not feel quite so confident using this on unlit lanes as the former two.
22:06Yeah, one of the things that you get on a slightly lower power setting like this is it actually creates bigger shadows.
22:12So when you're creating big shadows,
22:14what it can then do is it gives you just almost like a false perspective of what's coming up in front of you.
22:20So you have to be a bit aware of that, whereas a brighter light almost burns through that.
22:24Riding on your own, riding on lit roads or at gentler speeds and commuting, this works really well.
22:30It's a good bright light.
22:33So let's move on to the CatEye AMP800.
22:38That, again, is a very, very similar beam.
22:42Not quite as wide, though.
22:44No.
22:45I think, comparative.
22:46If we go back, so the closest comparative light to this one is the exposure light.
22:53So I'm going to blank that off and turn on the exposure.
22:59Let's go back to the brighter setting.
23:01So that's the exposure.
23:03Then blank that off.
23:04Go to that one.
23:05It's definitely duller.
23:06You can see it doesn't quite have that same bright point.
23:10Look at that.
23:11When I turn that on top of it, you can see we've got that.
23:14So if I turn that exposure off, it's almost similar to the NOG.
23:20It's good, but it's not brilliant.
23:23No.
23:24I think that would be my conclusion there.
23:26It will do the job.
23:27You've got that bright central section, so you're kind of well-covered for potholes,
23:32debris, things you want to watch out for.
23:34I can see a good amount of kind of spread around the room.
23:39So, you know, there is good illumination, but clearly it's not as bright as those first two.
23:45Pretty decent side visibility, though.
23:47Even though there's no windows, it actually does light up quite well.
23:51So moving on to the Kryptonite.
23:54We turn this one off.
23:56So the Kryptonite should be very different, shouldn't it?
23:59Yes.
24:00Because it has its wonderful looks measurement.
24:03So let's see how that compares.
24:04So let's move that up to the brighter setting.
24:07This looks a bit like a candle, really, doesn't it?
24:10In that kind of shape.
24:11It's completely different to the others.
24:13It's really, really interesting to point out.
24:15So what we've got here is we've got kind of quite a large, bright, rectangular type area.
24:21If I move it up a little bit so we can actually see it on.
24:25Oh.
24:26Yeah.
24:27Oh.
24:28So we've got a few things going on here.
24:31So that's that brightest point.
24:34Now, if we put it to where we'd have it on the bike, that illuminates that large area there in front of you, which is great.
24:40That bit there is that 60 lux.
24:43So that's all of that bright light.
24:44And then we have an area in front of it which is darker, but still we've got a bit of light so we can see.
24:52However, there's something missing.
24:55Yeah.
24:56As long as everything you want to see is within this area, you are sorted.
25:02Everything's great, right?
25:03Yes.
25:04But what if there is a bunny rabbit that's going to run out from a hedge and it's here?
25:09This is the one thing that I found using this light at night on unlit roads is it concentrates your world into such a small area that you have no awareness of what's going on around it.
25:22And that can be pretty frightening.
25:25And when we then look at the front section, so kryptonite will say that there's no wasted light.
25:30It's all usable light.
25:32However, if we go above Michelle's ankles, that area there is coming at you at speed.
25:39So there are obstacles coming towards you on your bike.
25:42And if you go more than walking speed, your reaction time is actually quite minimal.
25:47But trying to use this light and ride at a speed that's normal, so 15 miles an hour or plus than that, is almost impossible.
25:57So, you know, perhaps this light might work well in town centres, in cities.
26:02If you want a good amount of bright light, but you're commuting in a town, it's lit, or there are car lights going back and forward, probably a good choice.
26:12I think exactly right.
26:13You know, this is a light that is, of the five, the only one that I would say is only for commuting.
26:20We've shown you all the different beam patterns and effectively what they're looking at.
26:26Let's turn the lights back on, get on, and then find out our verdict.
26:31OK, so James, you've put these through some pretty heavy testing over the last few weeks.
26:36We've talked about each of the kind of features of each of them, and we've also looked at the beam patterns.
26:42There can only be one winner.
26:45So what is the verdict?
26:47It's quite tricky to choose between the Exposure Sirius and the Lezyne Microdrive 800XL.
26:53So they're both really, really good lights, and it was difficult to fault them, but each of them isn't perfect.
27:02If we look at the exposure light, it's expensive.
27:06The button and then the programmability is great, but it also makes it a bit sort of confusing to use.
27:14And the fact that you have to buy another additional strap if you want to run it on aero bars boosts that price up a bit too much.
27:21But obviously the Exposure does beat everything in terms of brightness.
27:26So the actual beam pattern and everything is spot on.
27:31And longevity from experience.
27:32Although we've not had this one for eight years or 12 years in your case, we have had Exposure lights for that duration and been very happy.
27:40I think that's it.
27:41The fact that they build everything in-house, they've got that customer service is so brilliant.
27:48You take your Sirius light that you bought this year and send it back to them, and they'll be able to either repair it or offer you a replacement.
27:56And it's just great.
27:57You know you've got a light for life, really, from that point of view.
28:00But there's a big initial outlay, or more so than the Lezyne.
28:04Yes, and that's kind of like the difference between the two.
28:06So the Lezyne is £60 compared to £100.
28:10So that initial outlay is a big chunk.
28:13So you could buy a really decent rear light and have them full set for the price of that front Exposure light.
28:20Brightness is brilliant.
28:22The beam pattern was spot on.
28:24It's very, very similar to the Exposure light.
28:27I really like the way that you've got the battery indicator and the fact that it uses a standard USB charging port as well, which has been really, really nice and reliable.
28:38And the fact that you can put that remote switch on is a really good option.
28:42I quite like it.
28:43So they did send one to me, but obviously for the sake of this test, I've already used it without.
28:48But it's super simple.
28:49Extra £15.
28:51The bracket works.
28:54It's not perfect.
28:56So the bracket isn't perfect in terms of the strap.
29:01I would like it to have been a bit longer.
29:04And the difference in terms of the modes, the fact you've got to cycle through so many different modes, there's too much choice there.
29:10So that's why that kind of doesn't win out.
29:14So personally, I think these two are both winners.
29:19If I was to buy a light myself, it probably would be the Exposure, purely for that sort of longevity.
29:25But from a value for money point of view, for people that just want the best bike light for bang for buck, as we say, the Zhiyun Microdrive Pro 800 XL gets a win in that respect.
29:38So yeah, out of the five, those are the two that I certainly would recommend.
29:44I hope you've enjoyed this lights group test.
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