Front LED for your or your kids bike. Can't complain about the price.
Raleigh RX 3.0 - 3 LED Front Light
The Raleigh 3 LED Front Light will make a great backup for your main light, and is also ideal to keep in your bag for emergencies. With a burn time of up to 100 hours this makes it the perfect saviour if your main light goes out, the waterproof construction also means it is weather resistant. Features an easy mount bracket making it quick and easy to attach to any part of the bike.
Raleigh 3 LED Front Light Extra Info
3 LED bulbs
Visible up to 1000m
Flashing and constant modes
High performance LEDs and high clarity optical lens
Compact and lightweight design
Waterproof construction
* Intervening prices may have been charged
Latest comments (29)
Baldieman64
28 Mar 16#29
Sounds like we have similar commutes. I agree that here is a difference between lights to be seen by and lights to see by. My twin beam light by Uniquefire does both. I don't agree with you on these sorts of low output low reliability lights though. A bit of rain on the windscreen and a mass of urban lights and it's too easy to disappear into the background.
pibpob
28 Mar 16#28
As well as at other times, I commute by cycle all year round, in all weathers. My journey is mostly suburban but has a significant stretch of unlit path. Oncoming cycles with blinding lights are bad enough in the lit sections but worse in the unlit parts. Rear lights can also be too bright. The Philips Saferide allows me to be seen and illuminates the road ahead on unlit sections without blinding anyone coming the other way.
Baldieman64
28 Mar 16#27
As you seem to be so opinionated, how much cycling do you do at night and in what weathers?
pibpob
28 Mar 16#26
Some of them may do and in that case they are probably illegal. But why does a car having blinding headlights excuse a bicycle from doing the same? Two wrongs don't make a right. If you are involved in a collision (even between two third parties) and you have illegal blinding lights, you could find yourself in deep water. Boris bike lights - three flashing LEDs IIRC - are perfectly good enough to be seen, or they would be better. In street-lit areas potholes are perfectly obvious without shining lights at them. Absolutely - I never said that they weren't. These are to be seen in street-lit areas. Because "blinding" is not "good".
pibpob
28 Mar 16#25
I would say that they are then - very hard to make lights dimmer than those on Boris Bikes nowadays. So quite safe enough.
thistle99
28 Mar 16#24
This looks similar to the ones I got from Poundworld a fortnight ago: 2 for £1 (ex. batteries) which is bright and comes with a decent mount.
I'll go and have a nosey at the Raleigh one and compare. Does it come with batteries?
Baldieman64
28 Mar 16#23
I have no idea. Not everyone lives in London and I'm not about to make a comparative statement for which I have no point of reference.
lumsdot
28 Mar 162#22
Well HID lights are legal on cars and they blind everyone.
Bikes need good lights to see potholes and to be seen
The 3 led bike lights here are not good lights, in total darkness (no street lights) you will not be able to see.
as a backup they may be worth having, but good led lights are cheap so why not have a good led light as a backup
pibpob
28 Mar 16#21
Absolutely - you just need to be seen, which is why those little flashing LEDs on the front of Boris Bikes are perfectly adequate. You can also achieve that without blinding oncoming pedestrians/cyclists/motor vehicles if you have a shaped beam like a car headlight. But that costs more than a ridiculously bright LED with a simple reflector. At a pinch, you can add a Fresnel lens to flatten the round beam from a simple bright light, or there are, sadly little known in this country, flat-beam lights like the Philips Saferide.
murtgurge
28 Mar 16#20
well you have to have lights that are fit for use, if you're biking around a town or city then a beam isn't helping anything and people will just get **** off and you'll spend money on batteries for no reason
if you live in a more countryside place with farms and windy unlit roads then you need a powerful beam to see what's ahead and what's on the floor which is why I always keep my beam light with me - I use it as little as possible because the battery does go pretty quick and when you need it you really do need it
oddballjamie
27 Mar 16#8
Are these the annoying flashing ones?
Gonna strap a few to the front of my car and blind some cyclists. :wink:
Siddas to oddballjamie
27 Mar 162#9
Shame there isn't a dislike button :laughing:
jamgin to oddballjamie
27 Mar 162#10
Is that before or after you kill or maim an innocent cyclist?
skiddlydiddly to oddballjamie
27 Mar 16#16
The flashing ones are annoying when pointed horizontally; I angle mine downwards for this reason.
People can still see it flashing and that's what I need to stay safe.
pibpob to oddballjamie
28 Mar 16#19
It's not flashing lights that are annoying, but bright ones that have silly round beams which shine into people's eyes. I don't understand why anyone thinks that this contributes to safety.
pibpob
28 Mar 16#18
As bright as Boris Bike lights then?
sotomonkey
27 Mar 161#17
Often a lot comes down to the mount. If the mount is crap, it doesn't matter how good the light is. That's why you shouldn't really buy lights from pound land and should read reviews.
Baldieman64
27 Mar 16#15
On the basis that it's an OEM product that is exactly the same as those sold using a dozen brand names. I've used them and they are not reliable.
Do I have cheap Chinese lights on my commuter bike? Yes I do but they are small, discreet and there as a backup only.
Baldieman64
27 Mar 161#7
Not bright and not reliable.
Your life is worth more than this.
pibpob to Baldieman64
27 Mar 16#14
I expect they're as bright as the ones on Boris Bikes, which to my knowledge have never been blamed for any collisions. As to their reliability, well maybe it isn't good, but upon what evidence do you base that claim?
MAdam98
27 Mar 16#13
I wasn't referring to the Raleigh ones. I was referring to CREE ebay ones (massive generalisation)
srw985
27 Mar 16#12
You can get a set with a zoomable CREE front light for a fiver?
Get that. Don't buy this deal.
sotomonkey
27 Mar 161#11
That light looks like complete crap. You'd be better off going to a pound shop. 7.99 too..... lol
sradmad
27 Mar 16#6
good find op, heat added
backtothecaves
27 Mar 16#5
I have 3 like this and never had any trouble. The Raleigh light looks no better than a tealight. I highly recommend the Brite R cree lights on Amazon. For £18 they are blinding and reliable
gazdoubleu
27 Mar 16#4
I've got cheap Status (Aldi or Lidl) ones on the kids bikes as per the original op's suggestion. Chinese tat? probably but never had a problem and Raleigh is now Chinese tat anyway
MAdam98
27 Mar 16#3
Such lights in my, and many others whom I know's, experience are temperamental and I would hate to be out on a long ride in the dark and it fail on me, as it has done before (albeit it wasn't that dark so it wasn't much of an issue)
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Raleigh RX 3.0 - 3 LED Front Light
The Raleigh 3 LED Front Light will make a great backup for your main light, and is also ideal to keep in your bag for emergencies. With a burn time of up to 100 hours this makes it the perfect saviour if your main light goes out, the waterproof construction also means it is weather resistant. Features an easy mount bracket making it quick and easy to attach to any part of the bike.
Raleigh 3 LED Front Light Extra Info
3 LED bulbs
Visible up to 1000m
Flashing and constant modes
High performance LEDs and high clarity optical lens
Compact and lightweight design
Waterproof construction
* Intervening prices may have been charged
Latest comments (29)
Boris bike lights - three flashing LEDs IIRC - are perfectly good enough to be seen, or they would be better. In street-lit areas potholes are perfectly obvious without shining lights at them.
Absolutely - I never said that they weren't. These are to be seen in street-lit areas.
Because "blinding" is not "good".
I'll go and have a nosey at the Raleigh one and compare. Does it come with batteries?
Bikes need good lights to see potholes and to be seen
The 3 led bike lights here are not good lights, in total darkness (no street lights) you will not be able to see.
as a backup they may be worth having, but good led lights are cheap so why not have a good led light as a backup
You can also achieve that without blinding oncoming pedestrians/cyclists/motor vehicles if you have a shaped beam like a car headlight. But that costs more than a ridiculously bright LED with a simple reflector. At a pinch, you can add a Fresnel lens to flatten the round beam from a simple bright light, or there are, sadly little known in this country, flat-beam lights like the Philips Saferide.
if you live in a more countryside place with farms and windy unlit roads then you need a powerful beam to see what's ahead and what's on the floor which is why I always keep my beam light with me - I use it as little as possible because the battery does go pretty quick and when you need it you really do need it
Gonna strap a few to the front of my car and blind some cyclists. :wink:
People can still see it flashing and that's what I need to stay safe.
Do I have cheap Chinese lights on my commuter bike? Yes I do but they are small, discreet and there as a backup only.
Your life is worth more than this.
Get that. Don't buy this deal.
http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-lights-locks/bike-lights/raleigh-3-led-rear-light