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LEZYNE Lite Drive 1000XL Bicycle Headlight, Very Bright 1000 Lumens, 87 Hour Runtime, USB Rechargeable, High Performance LED Headlight for Mountain & Road Bikes

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The KTV Pro 75 puts out a very decent 75 lumens in its daytime flash mode and its large lens offers an impressive 270 degrees of visibility. Boost is still plenty bright enough to see where you are going on wide main roads with cats-eyes and the like, plus the Enduro will, too, at a push. Finance is subject to application, financial circumstances and borrowing history. Performance Cycling Limited FRN: 720557 trading as Tredz are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We are a credit broker not a lender – credit is subject to status and affordability and is provided by Mitsubishi HC Capital UK PLC. Terms & Conditions Apply. If you're using the light in urban areas you'll most likely only need to use the pulse or flash settings, with run-times of a massive 18 and 19 hours respectively. Using the average 13.1km cycle commute distance ridden at 21km/h according to Strava as a rule of thumb, most commuters should get at least a couple of weeks out of this light off a single charge. That's impressive. The next setting is Blast (500lm/3hrs), then Enduro (250lm/5.5hrs), Economy (150lm/19hrs) and Femto (15ml/87hrs), which finishes off the solid options.

A powerful, multi-purpose front light with up to 1000 lumens of output, the Connect Smart 1000XL features a lightweight yet rugged CNC-machined aluminum body with integrated cooling fins. The light has 8 different output modes, from an attention-grabbing 1000 lumen Daytime Flash setting to an 87 hour runtime Femto Mode, providing options for every riding environment. It’s MOR (Maximum Optical Reflection) lens optimizes and evenly disperses light. A versatile strap securely mounts to a variety of bar shapes and sizes. They are really the only flaws, though. Everything else about the Lite Drive 1000XL is pretty good. All Lezyne LED-lights run on batteries. They are all rechargeable, some of the batteries are build-in and some can be removed/replaced. All batteries can be bought in the shop.The shop provides all other high-end accessories and parts for LED-lights as well. A strap or mount for example, or batteries, adapters, USB- cables and so on. This equipment helps you replace broken parts of your LED-light, enables you to mount any Lezyne LED-light to your bike frame or helmet and provides everything you need to get the best out of your Lezyne LED-light. Lezyne says, "The most advanced front and rear combination of cycling lights available. The two lights come wirelessly paired, allowing the front LED to wirelessly turn on or off the taillight at the same time. The modes of the two lights can be customized when paired with our free Lezyne LED Ally phone app. During a ride, toggling through the modes of the front light will also wirelessly change the modes of the taillight. When it's time to top up, the unit is USB rechargeable via a rubber covered flap at the rear, and a full charge takes around four hours. Charging the Lezyne Lite Drive 1000XL is easy with the included micro-USB cable. The headlight comes with a versatile strap, making it easy to attach to virtually any frame or handlebar. Tell us what the light set is for and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?

An app for your lights? That might sound like a chore, but it's not: Lezyne's Smart connect app is simple and very effective. If the lights are turned on then they'll show up once you fire up the app, and you can connect the front and rear light to your phone. This also pairs them together (they come set up like that anyway), so that turning the front light on will also activate the rear. It doesn't work the other way round but this makes sense: there are times you might want to be running your rear light but not your front – on a busy road in the daytime, for example – but none that spring to mind where you'd need your front but not your rear. The light has seven settings and two different modes. The first mode allows you access to all seven settings, which are blast (650 lumens), enduro (450lu), economy (150lu), femto (15lu), flash (150lu), pulse (150lu) and overdrive (1100lu). Race mode lets you toggle just between overdrive and economy. Mode memory remembers whether you're in race mode or standard whenever you next turn the light on, and which setting you were last using – which is useful if you favour one setting in most situations.

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Flashing-wise, there is a DayFlash which pumps out the full 1,000lm for 7.5hrs, which grabs plenty of attention when riding in the sunshine or filtering during daylight, though it is way too antisocial to use during darkness. The light flashes blue when you're in race mode and green when you're in standard, and you just hold it down for a few seconds when you turn it on to change between the two. Visibility is crucial when riding. Dark woods or a high speed road ride at dusk/night demands visibility to other traffic, for your own safety. Besides that, for a good ride in those conditions your own sight has to be optimal too. The right LED-lights on your bike can make all the difference in the world, in performance and experience. I tend to use both lights in "race mode" after dark, but in the daytime in the normal setup so I can use the pulse mode for additional visibility as needed. This is a sinusoidal "flash" that doesn't blow people's eyeballs out. I get migraines from sudden strobing flashes, so I do not use the daytime flash modes unless I believe my life is in danger. At dusk, I begin on the low-power femto/economy mode until it gets dark enough, then put it in race mode.

Having had several Drive series lights running long term since they came out a few years ago, dependable reliability is definitely a strength and the price is great value considering the surprisingly powerful output. This gets even better if you get one of the ‘bundled with a rear light’ options Lezyne offers. Verdict I have had two of these lights in frequent use for the past three years, an 800 and 1000. Both are mounted to the bars with an optional alloy clamp mount, which I believe is well worth the extra cost. Also, both of mine have external controllers. I use the wired controller with the 800 and a wireless controller on the 1000. Since technology marches on, the wireless controller is now offered with the 1300 lumen light, but mine is the slightly older and still totally adequate 1000 lm spec.Lezyne's Connect Smart 1000XL/KTV Smart light set combines two lights that are pretty good with an app that's pretty good too. The result is a light set that's simple to use and easy to like: it's more than the sum of its parts.

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