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andy bay
a Weekend Warrior
from Ashland, Oregon, USADate Reviewed: November 12, 2010
Strengths: Nightrider makes strong lights.Weaknesses: When products' warrantee expire, parts prices and "bench fees" even to assess the problem, are outrageous. Find an alternative to Nightrider, and save yourself some grief in the long run. Or go with Nightrider and just keep buying new product (at higher prices) every year or two.Bottom Line: Great products for the first year or two, but avoid Nightrider lights and save money on replacement parts and "bench" costs. Very poor service policy after the warrantee expires.
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$89.00
Similar Products Used: Makita rechargable flashlight using Makita drill batteries: superior in cost, repair, battery availability, and waterproofness over nightrider product.
Bike Setup: 1986 treck 600 mountain bike
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Bard Bruce
a Weekend Warrior
from san diegoDate Reviewed: July 16, 2002
Strengths: USED THE PRO 6 FOR 6 YEARS NO PROBLEMS 1 CELL OF THE BATTREY JUST DIED NIGHT RIDER REPLACED IT WITH THE CYCLOPS BATTERY AND I KEPT THE 15 WATT SINGLE LIGHT WHICH I USE ON AND OFF ROAD AND THINK ITS GREAT.Weaknesses: ON THE ROAD WOULD LIKE MORE TIME FROM IT.Bottom Line: I LOVE IT
Favorite Trail: corrizo gorge
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Purchased At: night rider
Similar Products Used: NONE`
Bike Setup: ROAD HOLLAND TI OFF ROAD MERLIN W/MONOSHOCK AND MOOTS REAR
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kurt mccauley
a Cross Country Rider
from san diego, ca, usaDate Reviewed: March 23, 2001
Strengths: reliable, 15 watt bulb is very bright, very light for a 2 hour bike light.Weaknesses: product line keeps changing making older models hard to get exact replacement parts. Rubber stopper over power cable came apart after 1 year, not replaceable.Bottom Line: If you are out for any kind of night ride under 2 hours this is a very good inexpensive light.
Favorite Trail: rose canyon
Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid:
$150.00
Purchased At: bikes by the bay
Similar Products Used: night sun
Bike Setup: Raleigh M-80 air/spring front shock/ rockshox indy xc, stock rims, altus/acera x/xtc/ groupo mix, gripshift 7 speed.
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Jesse
a Cross Country Rider
from Parkersburg WVDate Reviewed: April 24, 2000
Strengths: durable, bright, good valueWeaknesses: none for the moneyBottom Line: its a good light
Favorite Trail: mountwood park
Duration Product Used: 3 months
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Johan M.
a Cross-Country Rider
from Ponte Vedra beach, FlDate Reviewed: November 16, 1999
Strengths:
Bright
Durable
Good beam pattern
Rugged MountWeaknesses:
Battery only lasted 5+ years...Bottom Line: I have the bar mount Cyclops that Performancebike was selling for $119 (thereabouts) with the 15 watt bulb.
I have used this light in the driving rain and taken it fishing in salt water. The battery finally wore out and all it gave me was a middlin yellow light, good enuf fer casual riding.
So, instead of springing for a new light or OEM battery, I made my own with Hi-cap RC batteries!
Works great! Now my light is EVEN brighter and it cost me only $50! Run times are now 2.3 hours...
Here is to another 5 years!....
Oh yeah, I go offroad with this baby and several unintentioned biffs later- everything is still fine.
Duration Product Used:
more than 3 years
Similar Products Used:
NiceLite- Not bad for the $ - limited run times...
MiniMaglite- what the heck was I thinking? (cheapskate)
Bike Setup:
Marzocchi Z2 Atombomb '99
Cannondale 2.8 hardtail
XTR Drivetrain
Yada yada yada...
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Eric
a weekend warrior
from Dallas, TXDate Reviewed: January 29, 1999
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My wife bought me the Cyclops Pro for my birthday and after using it for a couple of months, I've decided it's one of the best doo-dads you can buy for your bike. I used old AA-battery powered Vista and Specialized lights before, but they're toys compared to a NiteRider. I ride mainly on streets at night, so I like to have plenty of light to be seen and to avoid potholes and road obstacles.No problems with the light yet, but I don't like that you can ruin the battery by over-charging. I just bought one of those cheap mechanical times you plug into an outlet so it will shut off the juice after 14 hours...
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Buddy Bonsell
a weekend warrior
from Erie, PADate Reviewed: January 28, 1999
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I have the NiteRider Cyclops. I was very impressed with the bright spot from the 12 watt bulb. The addition of a flood-type light would make the system perfect, but not necessary due to cost and extra weight to carry.Now for the bad news. I had a stone hit my lens, DEAD-CENTER. My lens has a hole in it and my bulb is broken. My local dealer said it would be a while before he would order any parts, so I've been stuck without my light for many moons.
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fatjack
a cross-country rider
from Mill Valley< CaliDate Reviewed: June 18, 1998
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We have 2 sets of night rider classics and one Cyclops, they are all sweet. The Classics are purrfect on the bars with the cyclops filling in on the helmet. I put the battery in my hydration pack. The 15 watt is the way to go on the cyclops, very bright white light, yes narrow beam. But great for helmet mounting, Bombing down tam at night it's nice to have both bar and helmet light going. You can easily ride out of your handle bar mounted lights range on a 25+ mph downhill run. It's nice to have the cyclops to fill in.
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SDZ
a cross-country rider
from USADate Reviewed: June 17, 1998
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BOOMPROFF. Very bright for 15w. The only downside is it is nice to have two lights so you can aim them in different places. Over all much much much better than vista lights. 5 stars for the price and qualilty. Get the water bottle mounted battery type it stays in a heavy built cage very well as opposed to the kind you strap on the frame.
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Robert A.
a cross-country rider
from New Castle, DelawareDate Reviewed: February 24, 1998
Bottom Line:
About a year ago, I was looking for a good helmet light to go along with the one on my bike. I was like you, reading these reviews. After that and talking to people I decided on this light. Boy am I glad I did. It is the brightest light I could ever need. It comes with a bike mount or you can get the helmet mount. Use the helmet mount. The beam is much too precise to go on the bike. But it works the best on the helmet. I get good time for my night rides on a charge. Get the 15 watt if you get it. It almost seems to be double that. It's tough, it's rough, it's everything a helmet light should be, especially for your mellon. Take this review and add a chilli pepper!!
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Thomas
a cross-country rider
from SF, Cal, USADate Reviewed: October 18, 1997
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My wife and I have been using the 20w version for 1.5 years. We do a regular group night-ride every Thursday night. The light works well except:1. One of our handle bar mounting brackets broke after about a month.
2. A MAJOR weakness exists in the design of the plug that connects the battery
to he light. Among the 10, or so, friends I know that own the exact same light,
about half of them are experiencing problems like; the connector inside the light rotating and breaking the internal wire, the plug from the battery breaking off inside the light, intermittent connection between the light and the battery (really spices-up a fast down hill!).But I must still say that aside from the lousy connection (which I am cutting-out and replacing with a 60 cent Radio Shack connector), I'd still buy the damn thing again.
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Scott Kopiec
a weekend warrior
from Tucson, AZDate Reviewed: October 12, 1997
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This review applies to the NiteRider Supersport. I went with this model because I liked the ability to use both alkaline and ni-cad rechargables. With the alkalines the run times seem to be about 5 hours, ni-cad about 2.5. I have just begun to go on night mtn bike rides so I bought this light on the advice of a local shop. Well after 2 rides I can say that this is a great product. Compared with friends that have Cateye Hyper Halogens, this light is several times brighter. After reading the other reviews it appears that it should be durable as well.... Good value for $70.
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E Gathman
a weekend warrior
from CADate Reviewed: September 4, 1997
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These guys have such a good rating in here, I thought prospective buyer's might like to hear another side. I liked the light very well (it was a Christmas present). But after a really rough trail one day, I realized when I got home, that the whole light head had fallen off somewhere. I went back over the whole area as best I could, but as I hadn't been following a trail part of the time,, I couldn't be sure to cover everything. I never did find it anyway. A call to nightrider though, and they have no provision for the event of their product falling off. Best they could do was to send me to a dealer to buy a replacement head for $52. For folks who can afford it, this might not be so bad, but for me, that's a lot of money for a product that shouldn't have fallen off in the first place. It's supposedly MADE for mountain biking (read: rough trails)!
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Adam Capelin
a cross-country rider
from QLD, AustraliaDate Reviewed: August 18, 1997
Bottom Line:
15v Headlight works really well Attatched to the fore of helmet. I found the light cast a good diameter of light so trees on perimeter of trail were visible before impact, heh heh. If properly adjusted the light provides vision where-ever my eyes looked. A good deterent of gawking passengers in cars too, just stare back at them and watch their retinas burn.
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-noj-
a weekend warrior
from Vancouver, WADate Reviewed: July 22, 1997
Bottom Line:
Definitely a kick ass light! Got it two years ago to ride in Phoenix (daytime temps of 110+ are just too DAMN HOT, night riding is the only thing to do in summer). I also worked at a shop there where we sold all the Niterider stuff. One of the things we would do to demonstrate it, besides the usual turn-it-on-and-marvel-at-the-overwhelming-brightness thing, was to whack it with a 5-lb mallet, HARD! The same light that had been there for I don't know how long before I arrived is still taking a beating to this day!These lights are not only bright as hell, but are BOMBPROOF! You will not destroy them!p.s.- if you have yet to go night riding, you are missing out on a whole new WORLD of coolness!-noj-
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