The definitive headtorch post

[Graham Breeze]

From you Graham, I take that as a very endearing compliment. Ian.
P.S.
And what headtorch were you using in Wednesday night's howling hoolee?

I have a Myo XP because I am still treating these events as fun (sort of).

Were I to take them more seriously I would equip my accompanying valet with a Hope searchlight as you advise.

[wheezing donkey]

If a Yorkshire gent, such as yourself, were to dig into his pockets that deeply; then I'm certain that my good friend Trundler would volunteer to be your valet, gratis, to carry the said contraption for you.

[Tomsk]

Tomsk, being a bit of an headtorch geek - electrical engineer - I have heard of these, and been on the website, about a year ago. I think they were mentioned/linked on one of the earlier headtorch threads. The actual canisters for the light engines look very similar to the 'Lumicycle' lights from down in Bournemouth.
A girl who is not a Bowland member but a work colleague, turned out on a Bat Run from White Coppice up Great Hill. She uses a Lumicycle H.I.D on 24 hour mtb races. She did not use the Lumicycle for the run, but back at the cars she demo'd it. It lit the entire length and width of White Coppice cricket ground - incredible! As is the price!

Thanks Wheezo, think I'll stick to the Hope...less technology
Cheers

[scott baistow 93]

get a hope led there the best for night running

[Swoop]

I have a Myo XP because I am still treating these events as fun (sort of).
Were I to take them more seriously I would equip my accompanying valet with a Hope searchlight as you advise.

I hope your man is considering your carbon footprint. How green is your valet?

[Graham Breeze]

I hope your man is considering your carbon footprint. How green is your valet?

Very good Colin!

[darklord]

I haven't run oft' t'ill since I were a lad.....then last night I found myself running off Whernside with an Alpkit Gamma. Hmmmm....

Flood light too weak, and spot beam too narrow. I couldn't get happy with either, and such was my paranoia with the light I kept tripping over those pesky steps made by volunteer path builders....

Mi knees are shot and I'm no fast runner, but I'd like to see where I'm going on the volunteer steps. Quite fancy a Silva L3 (NOT the narrow beam L1 or L2) which has 5 teeny weeny LEDs rather than one whopper.

Anyone used a Silva L3? Personally I think a floody light is better for seeing the ground than a focused beam (which is good for picking out the pub).

[Fellhound]

I agree that a "floody" light is what you want. My Petzl Duo 14LED is good for this - certainly better than a Myo XP (which I also have - headtorch geek that I am)...

[Fellhound]

...I'm certain that my good friend Trundler would volunteer to be your valet, gratis, to carry the said contraption for you.

Oi, Mr Donkey, just you mind who you are volunteering my services to.....

[darklord]

I agree that a "floody" light is what you want. My Petzl Duo 14LED is good for this - certainly better than a Myo XP (which I also have - headtorch geek that I am)...

I have a MyoXP too but the diffuser rather overcooks it. Picked up a Princetontec Fuel last week (head torch geek that I am) which is nice and floody, but I think it will bounce around on mi bonce too much - batteries and all the gubbins are up front, you see, and a rather small headplate for forehead contact induces wobble, even at my speeds. Princetontec's Quad and Petzl's Tikkaplus are also in the frame for nice flood, but similarly they are both bounce-inducing 'all-in-ones'.

If the Alpkit's three small LEDs were all white, and could all come on together...ah, then we might have the perfect runner, and still with that 1watt beam for finding the pub....