A bike light even brighter than car headlights? Launched on Kickstarter, the diminutive Focus light packs 5,000 lumens into less than 50 g.
An Italian startup is crowdsourcing money for its new bike light now, with a straightforward promise: make riders as visible as cars.
That’s what the Focus bike light aims to do, with a knockout-strength beam that throws 5,000 lumens from a trim profile. A handlebar-mounted button deploys it on command.
Focus Bike Light: Very Bright, Very Small
At first glance, the little gadget looks relatively harmless. But you won’t want to look at it for long on full blast — for reference, most car headlights kick out 2,000-4,000 lumens.
Plenty of modes and adjustable levels are on board, but the signature capability is a handlebar trigger that lets riders flash a full-blast high beam at will.
This one-of-a-kind feature should help any rider stay safer by alerting drivers during traffic surprises. And it could make dark trails with drop-offs or sharp corners easier to handle.
As for its form factor, it’s hard to believe a plastic box the size of a Zippo can turn darkness into broad daylight. But, watching the video of one test, it looks like it does exactly that. (Warning: Avoid the sixth visual component from the top of the Kickstarter page if you’re sensitive to flashing light.)
The company claims the Focus can throw visible light up to 1.25 miles under the right conditions! For comparison, 49 g is a hair more than the weight of a golf ball or about as heavy as a medium egg.
At 2.5 inches long and 0.5 inches thick, anyone except the most scrupulous gram-counters will barely notice the Focus on their bars.
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