Ahh Lezyne… they’re a fairly new company that apace revolutionized tools and pumps. Early this spring, they held a advise tent to foretell their entry into the lights arena. At first, I didn’t provide it a ordinal look as it seemed same small commuter lights. But the more I looked at them and now that I’m using them, the more I encounter their products rattling compelling.
The Super Drive is a self-contained reddened that claims 450 lumens. It uses a Cree XPG emitter that is housed in an every metal housing for heat dissipation. The shelling is a standard metal cell that crapper be replaced on the trail. The rear of the reddened unscrews easily much same a tralatitious torch and the shelling crapper be replaced with a fresh digit for longer separate time.
Although this is Lezyne’s first effort in lights, they hit invested momentous time and money to investigate the rivalry and their possess lights. They’ve purchased their possess desegregation orbit to measure actual lumens output. With advanced tools, they’re able to curb and publish how their lights bear over the whole shelling cycle. They’re also able to dissect losses in lens and reflector designs.
The Super Drive is the crowning of the line of a family of three lights from Lezyne. It retails for $110 and puts discover a claimed 450 lumens. The another lights in the family are: Power Drive – $90 at 300 lumens claimed output Mini Drive – $70 at 150 lumens claimed output.
These lights are live via USB and there is no USB device included. It is assumed that you hit a device or machine somewhere in the household. If you need one, a separate device is acquirable for $20.
Something engrossing most the Super Drive and another Lezyne lights is there is no tiny indicator lamp for charging position or reddened alter illumination. It uses the actual diode as an indicator by flashing it rattling faintly to indicate that the reddened is charging. This shows Lezyne’s pore on ownership the reddened as ultimate as possible and touch the $110 retail price point.
The reddened nous itself has a lip on the crowning rim and that’s actually multipurpose to keep the gleaming reddened absent from the rider’s eyes during discover of the command efforts. We fuck light’s with wide beam patterns but a downside is when you climb discover of the saddle, you intend artefact up face and the reddened crapper shine on your eyes a bit. The lip institute on this reddened blocks whatever of that reddened move at the top.
Quirky Light Switch:
The reddened alter is a taste quirky and non-intuitive.  We every undergo how to invoke a torch on and off. Some companies hit deviced in protection for unplanned turn-ons for self-contained lights (in the bike bag) by implementing a double-click on or 2-second fix advise to invoke on.  Lezyne  has gone boost by swing more reddened logic feedback on it.  When you advise the button, it module invoke low instantly. After digit ordinal of fix press, it module invoke to job indicating it’s primed to be released. When you release the button, it turns to high.  When motion off, a similar logic is applied.  It doesn’t make sense to the newbie until someone explains it to them.  After that, it’s easy enough to do but it does our brains process what’s feat on every time we overturned the reddened on and off. We believe that’s overkill and non-intuitive.  But, it’s a pretty secondary complaint as the alter action and quality is excellent. At the modify of the day, digit has to stop the reddened alter for two seconds to invoke on and off.
Specifications:
- Price: $110.00
- Claimed Lumens: 450 Lumens
- Light Head Weight: 128 grams
- Installed Weight: 128 grams
- Run Time: 1.5 hours
- Measured MTBR Lux: 44 Lux
- Measured Lumens: 421 Lumens
Mounting:
The increase is pretty ultimate band style with a impressible tightening knob for tool inferior mounting on to the handlebar. The reddened crapper be aimed mitt to right with indexed positions on the increase positions.
Helmet mounting is not acquirable at this saucer but with any helmet increase from another manufacturers that simulates a handlebar tube on to the helmet, the Lezyne increase module work for helmet use.
We took a journeying of the Lezyne Light Laboratory
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