For the see-by front lights, it's a big spectrum but we generally start with urban lights with an output around 400 lumen, road lights starting around 700 lumen, gravel or off-road riding starting around 1,000 lumen and MTB lights are usually 1,400+ lumen
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I prefer a Sofirn Q8 Plus - it's half a kilogram so it takes a lot of duct tape to secure it to the bars, but the 16000 lumens are worth it. Car cuts you off? Double click to just vaporize them.
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Somewhere in the range of a 25 billion lumen strobe.
Seriously though, sometimes it seems like we're invisible. Got run over a couple of years ago and I'm still salty about it.
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Cyclists are split between "why bother have a light at all" and "high-power headlamp that blinds oncoming traffic".
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Use the flashing setting. It halves the battery usage and doubles your visibility
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Either 69 lumens or 420 lumens
The answer is you need two lights. Trail riding and having a light suddenly fail is not fun.
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