Just finished tonight making my ultimate in warfare bike light setup. Screw all this energy saving LED crap, if I want something as professional as that it’ll be when I’m back into XC mountainbike racing, and in which case I’ll buy something off the shelf that I can rely on. In this case however, I’m after something hardcore that I can attach floodlights to, and use as a weapon of mass warfare on the road against cars (or even just when it’s really dark and I’m really scared of the dark).
I’ve put a few teaser pics here to get you interested.
‘Massive spotlight action’
Essentially I have a lightweight 6V NiCad pack for my helmet mounted twin-halogen system, and a 12V 18Ah SLA for the handlebar-mounted twin-halogen system.
The helmet has the functionality of having low beam in a wide strip, or high beam with the same strip for the ground ahead, and a spotlight for the road ahead, which is adjusted to light the road ahead when I’m on my drop-down bars. So when I’m riding without hands and sitting up, the spotlight goes into the air and the beam goes into the distance – presumably if I’m riding without hands it’s obviously bright enough anyway 
‘Helmet mounted setup’
Not that it will ever NOT be bright enough, for the handle-bar mounted jobs. These suckers are a 10W and 50W halogen BEASTS. The 10W has the option of being on medium beam, at around nearly 10W, or on the low beam (and exactly how low is completely adjustable up to the full 10W with a screw). Then, if you flick the second switch, the 50W flood-light turns on. No matter what mode the 10W globe is in, the 50W automatically switches off the 10W. The 50W job must be used with caution, since my dodgy plastic mounting stuff probably won’t handle the heat too well – must be moving with this succer!
‘The globes and the switches’
