Review on 🚲 Victagen USB Rechargeable Bike Light Set - Easy Installation, Powerful Front and Back Bicycle Headlight for Mountain and Road Bikes by Joshua Garris

In 2017 I decided to go with the Blitzu Gator as the standard solution for all the lights in the house. The flashlight was cheap, had a decent mount and several of these flashlights have been used in one place or another since 2017 which is very reliable for a cheap product. Since then, the Blitzu Gator's price has dropped to around $16, but one of our flashlights is dying. The Blitzu is irreparable when the battery dies (the battery is soldered to the motherboard) so I went online to see if there are better lights in 2019. The Victagen costs $20 and claims a maximum brightness of 1,000 lumens with a 12-hour runtime. 250 lumen setting. This is a brighter light compared to Blitzu's claim of 320 lumens, but to call it three times brighter would be a gross exaggeration. In contrast, the weight without the Victgen attachment weighs 138g and the Blitzu weighs 58g. This means you can have 2 Blitzus to lose the weight of a Vicatgen! The Victagen's mounting system is better designed than the Blitzu's: it comes with two stackable rubber washers, and the thumbscrew looks better. The pad that protects the mini-USB charging port is also better made - looks like it would stand up to hand handling than the one protecting the Blitzu, and is in a better place - on the back, not under the light where it sprays from the wheel is quick to clog and break if the seal falls off. The biggest problem with this light, and the main reason it's coming back, is that the flashing modes are way worse than Blitzus. I use flashing modes in Blitzus as daytime running lights and they last about 6 hours. The Victagen's flashing mode is rated for 12 hours, but they're very annoying, with a high-frequency beam that looks like it's designed to induce epileptic seizures in drivers, and an SOS beep in Morse code that's clearly not good to use . . You can use the low beam as daytime running lights and the battery life is preserved, but in addition to the weight savings, it becomes too much. And because of the weight, you could just take a spare flash and swap it out when the first battery dies. This goes back to Revane. I don't think 2 years is enough for dramatic improvements from cheap Chinese flashlight manufacturers.