So I commute year round in Calgary and that means cold and dark. I can’t seem to find a tail light that isn’t disposable garbage and will actually hold up to a few years of use.

Yes you can basically buy tail lights in bulk off Amazon - but I hate tossing dead junk in the trash. I would rather pay more for a light that lasts.

My perfect light would use replaceable 18650 (or whatever size) lithium ion cells, or at least have USB-C with pass-through charging (so that I can run it off an external battery in a pinch).

For front lights I use Outbound Lighting and they are perfect - long battery life, great performance, pass-through charging, works in the cold. Unfortunately Outbound doesn’t make tail lights. I’ve begged.

So anyone have a tail light that they LOVE?

  • potate@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    I love the Garmin idea - especially because they are local, but I really don’t need the radar functionality. I don’t even own a computer, I just use my (Garmin) watch for tracking rides.

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      1 year ago

      It’s quite likely that you’d be able to connect a Varia to your Garmin watch if it’s a reasonably recent model. Then you could get radar alerts as vibrations on the watch.