You can also find a few lights that offer fast charging without using USB-C two and a half hours instead of the typical four , but this feature comes at a steep premium and is handy only if you forget to charge your lights overnight, or during a workday. As for stuff to avoid, pay no heed to smart features. The best taillight designs feature clear or red-translucent casings that allow light to spill out in every direction.
Versatile and easy-to-use mount: You can find many capable taillights that feature a hard plastic quick-release mount, but we are slightly inclined toward those that mount with hooks and a rubber strap. Most lights that get that bright also include ambient-light sensors to prevent them from blinding fellow road users in dark settings.
For a red taillight, we found that a maximum brightness of 50 lumens was more than enough to stand out during the day, and that 30 lumens or so was already very bright at night. Any more than that is just overkill.
Solid, strobe, and pulse modes: A great light should at the very least offer a low and high solid mode, some kind of visually arresting strobing or flashing mode, and an oscillating glow. This variety allows you to choose between maximum visibility and total courteousness, with shades of gray in the middle. We Test Lights and Road. With that in mind, we did not see a reason to replicate existing testing only to come to the same conclusions.
Instead, our testing focused on usability and the experience of riding with the lights in person. Compared with other headlights, the Cygolite Metro Plus USB is more visible from more angles because it has both an extra-wide-angle beam pattern and side visibility cutouts. The term sounds like pure marketing language, but in our tests the resulting beam was the only one wide enough to stack up against the much larger dynamo lights we saw on our night ride with the New York Pizza and Dynamo Society.
The Metro series of lights has a reputation for delivering more lumens per dollar than its competitors, and the Metro Plus is no exception. The Metro Plus outputs a lumen beam on its medium setting for three hours.
SteadyPulse maintains a low, solid beam at all times but blinks brightly at regular intervals in order to enhance conspicuity. If you start from the off position, holding the power button down for two seconds activates a number of alternate modes primarily meant for daytime use.
DayLightning mode is a blinding flash that is intended only for daytime use and lasts for about 12 hours. Triple Flash is similarly bright but groups the flashes into triplets and lasts for 18 hours.
Both of these modes look more like camera flashes than bike lights and should not be used at night. The company also enlarged the lock-release tab, making it easier to press even with gloves on. Likewise, the fastener knob is bigger and easier to turn. The Metro Plus series also checks all the boxes that make a light nicer to use. It features a convenient Micro-USB charging port, protected by a durable and replaceable rubber cover.
The power button has a satisfying clickiness and firmness that makes it easy to press yet resists accidental activation. We also like that holding the button down for 10 seconds activates a lockout mode that prevents it from turning on during transport in a full bag or pannier and draining precious battery life. Although its exterior is primarily made of plastic, the Metro Plus feels sturdy to the touch and is based on a time-tested design that has held up well.
The fact that this newest version is fully waterproof IP67 should only add to its durability. But it is still made of plastic, and as a result you need to retighten it periodically to prevent slipping; you can easily do this by hand using the big adjuster knob.
It would also be nice if the light came with a helmet mount instead of requiring you to purchase that separately. Also, many people prefer the one-size-fits-all simplicity of a rubber-strap mount. It would be nice if Cygolite offered a limited lifetime warranty on non-electronic parts, as many of its competitors do. It offers a comparable level of maximum brightness, a similarly diverse selection of lighting modes, and great battery life.
You have no spacers or knobs to fuss with. To take the light off, reverse those steps. However, that bit of give can translate to a bit of wiggle on rougher terrain. The Dayblazer also falls short in evenness of spread, as the lack of a diffuser in the optics produces a noticeably dim spot in the center of the beam and the immediate area surrounding the center appears brighter than the rest. By comparison, the Metro Plus maintains an even brightness across the entire center of the beam.
That said, the Dayblazer still offers smoother optics than many of the other lights we tested. It also has side cutouts to improve off-angle visibility. Its low, medium, and Blitz solid modes live up to their respective claimed run times of five, three, and one and a half hours according to Road. It also has pulse and strobe modes that last eight and 12 hours, respectively. Pulse produces a fast oscillating beam, and strobe is a flashing mode that projects two short flashes followed by a longer one.
The one other major point of difference between the Blackburn light and the Cygolite model is in their appearance. While the Metro Plus has a utilitarian, sturdy chunkiness to its black plastic body, the Dayblazer is sleeker and clad in anodized aluminum. In our tests, an unintentional drop onto a paved bike path during a ride produced a visible scar along the top edge.
Honestly, it looks kinda cool—more patina than damaged goods. Blackburn also gets most of the little things right. The Dayblazer is fully IP67 waterproof. The beefy Micro-USB charging port cover is impressively overbuilt yet easy to operate. But those who have tried it like it. Rather than focus on boosting one or two LEDs to maximum brightness, it has a whole strip of 20 tiny LEDs grouped closely together to shine in unison.
The Hotrod 50 also has all the flashing modes you could want out of a taillight. Low flash is a dimmer, less frequent strobe that is still plenty visible at night and goes for 30 hours between charges—a good option for rural roads with less traffic.
Zoom mode oscillates smoothly between low and medium brightness to help you stand out in urban settings, and SteadyPulse achieves the same effect by blasting two short flashes followed by a long one on medium brightness. Each of those lasts about six hours. That means it is rain- and spray-proof but not designed to tolerate being submerged. The Hotrod 50 also lacks a clip for attaching to clothing or bags.
We think this is okay since its mount can find purchase on a wider variety of locations on a bike than most competitors can. But if you want that flexibility, consider one of our other picks. The Blackburn Dayblazer 65 Rear Light was the second most conspicuous taillight in our testing. Both LEDs are enhanced by parabolic reflectors and are covered by a clear dome-like case, which allows light to leak out in every direction, not just directly backward.
But the reflectors make it appear brighter at night—especially on its flashing modes. We also like that the Dayblazer 65 has multiple mounting options. On its own, it has a built-in clip that you can attach to clothes or bags. It comes with three differently sized silicone straps so you can mount it to a seat post, an extra-wide aero seatpost, or a skinny seat stay. Either of the other two modes is fine for nighttime use.
But this model is missing a pulsing mode, which many cyclists prefer because it catches the eye while also allowing viewers to better judge distance. Having a bit more battery life and a simpler mount would be nice, but the overall package works well for a wide variety of situations. The white Hotrod headlight uses the same, visible-from-all-angles design as the taillight.
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