are there any good head light kits?

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If you got a good rack, get 2 trailer lights and mount them on a milk crate, i have a blinker switch wired in and i run an almost fully charged 18volt battery out of a power wheels(fisher price toy lol), running 2 12 volt lights with 18v is ok but a single light would fry, i just need to figure out how to mount some big offroad truck lights, i have very bad visibility at night.
 
I got a cheap Bell light at Walmart. It was very bright, excellant, but last week I was riding along and suddely the thing just flew off my bike and broke into a million pieces. It only cost $8. Guess I will have to check the mount and mabey apply duct tape as needed. It was on there good, dont know why it flew off.
 
Hey Steve
Check out snowpanky on youtube. He gave me his idea and its BRILLIANT!.
 
Lights can be a pretty deep subject. There are two aspects to bicycle lighting, to be seen and to see. Just about anything will serve to be seen but seeing is another matter. Most bicycle lights on the market, are not made for the speeds a MB runs, you just can't see far enough down the road to avoid trouble. Added to that, the better systems are expensive, which is why I built from scratch. I started with lots of research and determined a AGM powered system was right for me and the MR16 - 20 watt 10 degree spot bulb gave the the most usable light per watt. I have no issues operating above 25 mph on a dark road, but doing so is an acquired taste.
 
Going batteryless...

They're a little expensive, but a generator hub (among others, shimano and Sturmey-Archer make one) put out enough power to feed a maglite, and, they don't drag like a bottle generator does. If you're not pulling power, they don't drag at all... Another advantage of the hub-style generators is that they are completely enclosed; away from the elements and road gunk.

I like the Sturmey-Archer, as it is a combination hub - with a brake and a generator.

If you're using a bottle-type generator, the old fashioned schwinn types add a lot of drag to the bike. (They're horribly inefficient.) The German-made Busch & Muller Dymotec 'bottle' generators are much more efficient (at about 40%) and cause very little drag. They also use larger, replaceable rubber faced rollers, which won't wear your tire sidewall like the metal wheels of the old-style bottle generators.

BTW. You can buy headlights & taillights designed for use with these type of generators; some have standlight capability. (They store up a charge while you're moving, then, when you stop, they release that stored charge to keeps the lights lit for a few minutes.

Unfortunately, like all else, the good stuff's expensive.

For side visibility, add a spoke magnet, and a pickup coil for each wheel. The output of the pickup coil (similar to a tach pickup) feeds an LED lamp. The LED flashes each time the wheel rotates. No (well, unmeasurable, anyway) drag, and no batteries. Reelight manufactures one of these pulsing lights. So does freelight

Ref Bicycle Lighting Wiki
 
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Hi Guys
I use two cateye el530 headlight next to each other on the handlebars AWSOME lighting,Use rechargable batteries and these run forever with bright light.
Happy Motoring.......gary :)
 
Focus.

In a word NO,it wouldn't be much good and that's because the LED's arn't focussed....the light would just splay out to the sides with very little depth of field.
I've ordered a Sturmey Archer Bicycle Dyno Drum Brake with an output of 6volts/3 watts.With that i'm going to power this torch(flashlight) after i've customized it to look purpose-made as a bicycle light.The reason i'm using this torch is cos it's got 15 focussed LED's that give an amazingly powerful beam going forewards...infact u could even use it for a small motorbike headlight.
For the rear any descent,multi,LED will work.
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