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Lars S. Mulford
Guest
Howdy folks!
The nice folks at our local bike shop let me take a peek at the new J&B Importers catalog (won't be
long for some of those new Sun recumbents now!) and I was looking at the Cateye lights.
They have listed a new Cateye headlight, the EL-500. It uses the newer 1 watt LED and is supposed to
have in the neighborhood of 1000 candlepower. I can't find any information on this light and even
going to J&B, I've not been able to get a price. Does anyone have any information on this headlight?
On my TE, I use two Cateye EL-300s side by side (they light up my cyclometer nicely too) a well as a
Cateye EL-400 underneath them, set to blinking mode. I have plenty of light with these for riding at
night and have been quite pleased. However, this new headlight from Cateye is twice the power of my
EL-300 and looks to be smaller and more compact, perhaps even lighter.
As a sidenote, I'd be interested to hear from others who use LED lights exclusively for their night
riding. In addition to the lights I mentioned above, I use two Vistalite 7-LED combo blinkers for
the rear of my TE, mounted on the tops of the back seat posts.
--
"Sea" ya!
--Lars S. Mulford
"You can find evil anywhere you look.
The question is, why are you looking?"
The nice folks at our local bike shop let me take a peek at the new J&B Importers catalog (won't be
long for some of those new Sun recumbents now!) and I was looking at the Cateye lights.
They have listed a new Cateye headlight, the EL-500. It uses the newer 1 watt LED and is supposed to
have in the neighborhood of 1000 candlepower. I can't find any information on this light and even
going to J&B, I've not been able to get a price. Does anyone have any information on this headlight?
On my TE, I use two Cateye EL-300s side by side (they light up my cyclometer nicely too) a well as a
Cateye EL-400 underneath them, set to blinking mode. I have plenty of light with these for riding at
night and have been quite pleased. However, this new headlight from Cateye is twice the power of my
EL-300 and looks to be smaller and more compact, perhaps even lighter.
As a sidenote, I'd be interested to hear from others who use LED lights exclusively for their night
riding. In addition to the lights I mentioned above, I use two Vistalite 7-LED combo blinkers for
the rear of my TE, mounted on the tops of the back seat posts.
--
"Sea" ya!
--Lars S. Mulford
"You can find evil anywhere you look.
The question is, why are you looking?"