SKY RAY King look-a-like XM-L 2500 Lumens 4-mode Bike light

+2. I always wanted to get the King as a bike light, but mounting issues and no medium were deal killers. This solution is perfect.

Bike riders with single XM-L’s are a pain at night time enough as it is, they always leave them on high and blind everyone without even thinking about it.

I can just imagine driving past one of these on high shining right in my eyes and not being able to see for the next 30 seconds or more.

I’ve been looking into getting a bike. This is perfect for putting on the bar.

I agree that this is overkill. When on the road, a medium light (500 lumens max) is only needed while pointed at the ground. Even when alone in a park or on a forest trail 1000 lumens is still enough, given that it’s not a throwy beam.
But 2000+ lumens is just too much…

agreed boys! king is a no buy until a medium…

People should be responsible wether driving cars or riding bikes, that’s a given. Personally I like having brighter lights on trails as the more you see the less you are impeded by lack of vision, and it’s more fun when you can see more. This light would seem to offer a high quality of light at a small fraction of the cost of some of the ridiculously overpriced bike lights out there. Medium would be plenty for trail use, having the option of a high mode at 2400 Lumens sounds fun.

Wow! I just bought a Cree XM-L T6 bike light off E-Bay for $36. If I had seen this first, I would have gone with it!

It actually isn’t necessary in bright areas of the city. In bright areas of the city it is as you say - bright. So why the need for even more illumination?
Please take your condescending tone elsewhere, and if you’ve ever ridden a bike at night on a forest trail you’d know that after 1000 lumens your night vision goes bye bye and an increase in brightness won’t help much more.

Now I’m happy I didn’t buy the Shadow BL-21 yet, this looks really great!

this is too cool. do you guys think this would be identical to the gold skyray king in terms of brightess and beam pattern? if so, i would totally get one of these. $57 including batteries is a steal. i dont ride a bike, but ill figure someplace to mount this sucker.

I do have to wonder about that. I’d think that lower quality batteries would limit output, and at this price, I wouldn’t expect the battery to have very nice cells. Maybe someone else will make a battery pack with replaceable cells, even one that uses 26650 batteries. 8)

Ok, I think I understand what you are saying now. But when I ride I don’t usually turn on my lights when I’m on the road, only when going through less illuminated places. I also understand where you’re coming from, and we’re two different people so I cannot say you’re wrong.
I called out your condescending tone because never when being respectful have I or anyone else ever said something along the lines of ‘you’re funny’.

I personally have never had the need to have such a high output in reserve, but I guess it’s a nice thing to have. But as I bring this discussion back to the original point; some people just gun it on max without a second thought about their surroundings, so for the amateur cyclist who doesn’t pay attention to where the light is shining, this is too much.

In my bike set up i have 2 trusfire tr-j18. He going to kill me! :stuck_out_tongue:

you can get the real deal for only double this price incl. original charger and cellpack.

Magicshine MJ-880 (it is like Fenix LD20 the most popular of its kind. there are much more expensive lights but, like LD20, this is in between the wide range of bike light products. high quality, very popular, and not too expensive stuff).

If anyone is interested in MJ-880, drop me a note and i'll hook you up. (for sure, dont pay the ~170€ on ebay, that's a total rip-off!)

DX.com has hundreds of cheap bike lights (XXXXlumens for ~40US$) if you're on a budget.

You’re funny…

What do you guys say about heat in this one?
Can it run for a long time without getting overheated/damaged?
For me I would use it on my Quad-bike when plowing snow so typically the outdoor temperature would be –5 to –20 Celcius. I assume that would help……?
Maybe batterytime at those temperatures drastically are reduced?

And one more….does not seem to come with any attachment accesories. Not for bikes and not for head……

I can see your point on this. I was thinking that because we’re a flashlight community, more lumens is hardly a bad thing. I meant it like how in the muscle car community, there’s hardly a thing as too much power, especially as applied to every single person. Yes, some people realize that they will never use all that horsepower or light, but I bet there’s a few people in their respective enthusiast community that can use it or will gleefully try to use all of it. As you said at the end of our complete post though, that can cause some trouble. I’m a lumenaholic, I’ll take super high lumen modes, even if I should never need them. Like how I would love a 600 lumen backpacking headlight that weighs less than my 220 lumen headlight. I might never need the extra lumens, but it’s there if the need arises. I also like long battery life too, so I always try to use the lowest mode possible. If we were riding together, I doubt you’d find my headlight output offensive.

That’s what I was thinking, I’ve got the Gemini Titan bike light with the same sort of battery pack and headstrap.

The looks good :slight_smile:
I wonder what type of battery pack it uses?

Here is a triple for $48 shipped