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Refunds will only be returned to the original payment method – this may take up to 10 days to appear depending on how you paid. We will only refund return postage costs on damaged/faulty goods (a postage receipt will be needed). Happily, there are less bright, less expensive options from the same range, and for my money the Viz 100 at half the price would be all the light I'd need.We offer a 30 day returns policy. On this basis, unless your commute takes in a lot of fast daytime dual carriageways (my sympathy), I just don't think a case can be made for needing more than 10 times this output, as here. The constant mode is very bright when seen from 300 metres away at night, and vastly more so than the higher lumen output from the lens-less Knog Blinder Skull. The most startling thing about this light is how bright a mere 40 lumens can be when funnelled through effective lenses. > Buyer’s Guide: 22 of the best rear lights for cycling I would only use this mode if I was doing a lot of riding on fast A-roads in the daytime, and it would make me feel safer in that specific environment. I didn't ride with this mode at night, so cannot report the thoughts of other road users. Following behind this light in the daytime, I found that from around 100 metres it was very effective at being impossible to miss (and not overly bothersome) but from 10 metres it was pretty irritating. Steve described this mode on the Viz 300 as luridly chaotic and it is – it's not just the bonkers output of those bright flashes but all the various rapid strobing that's going on at the same time, which makes this hard to ignore.
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Here it goes Full Rave with all five LEDs flashing at different speeds and the full 450 lumens deployed a little over once per second. It used to mean 'always on, with brighter flashes' and I thought it was a great choice for daytime running or well-lit busy night-time environments. This mode name has been around for a while but what it does here is different to Cateye's older lights. You only get the full beans in the Daytime Hyperflash mode, and only for the briefest of flashes. > Buyer’s Guide: The best 2021/22 front lights for cycling Having sat behind a friend using this light as part of the testing, I'd agree that the lack of strobe effect is definitely a blessing, but it still feels like overkill – in my view, a single one of the bright LEDs would be ample and I'd prefer it to be on constantly, which should deliver 15 hours' run–time. It uses all five of the LEDs, with one, two or three of the OptiCube LEDs being on at any given point. The Group Ride mode unexpectedly ups the power to 130 lumens, but in a pulsing rather than flashing pattern apparently intended not to be too irritating to your riding mates.
Whether that matters depends on your environment – in an urban area I'd choose good all-round visibility over being seen by someone half a mile away. They were less effective in terms of range than some lights that used lenses to focus a beam back down the road. I still have some that I tested six years ago and they still work fine, which is a decent innings – other brands' lights have not lasted nearly as well. I've tested a whole load of Cateye lights over the years and I really rate the brand – its lights aren't the cheapest (but certainly not the most expensive either) and they tend to be well-made units that chuck out lots of light and last for years.Ĭateye's previous Rapid range of rear lights offered excellent all-round visibility using a line of LEDs that were visible from the sides and the rear. There are more socially acceptable modes, but you could also just buy a less powerful, cheaper light. In some specific use-cases you might appreciate this amount of power, but for most cyclists it is overkill and potentially a little provocative. As the name suggests, Cateye's Viz 450 rear light can throw out an extremely bright beam, although the full power is reserved for an intermittent flash in the 'Daytime Hyperflash' mode.
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