If you happen to’ve by no means gone night time driving, you’re lacking out! There’s one thing about driving within the darkness that makes even acquainted trails really feel new and totally different. It’s additionally an effective way to increase your season within the brief days of spring and fall. Full On Lighting is a brand new firm from Vancouver Island, B.C. that desires to make your night time rides safer and extra enjoyable with their incoming MB6 gentle.
The MB6 Mountain Bike Mild is Full On Lighting’s debut product, and it hasn’t hit the market fairly but. The sunshine places out over 6000 lumens, might be mounted to handlebars or helmets, and has an auto-adjusting mode that alters the sunshine’s output based mostly in your velocity.
Full On Lighting’s President and Founder Sean Bourquin is a lifelong mountain biker from Vancouver Island, B.C. Earlier than beginning the corporate, Bourquin spent 14 years because the Founder and CEO of an out of doors solar-powered lighting firm.
Discovering present gentle choices had been both not brilliant sufficient or didn’t illuminate a big sufficient space, Full On Lighting got down to create their very own merchandise that would remedy these issues. Talking with Bourquin at their Crankworx Whistler sales space, he mentioned he needs to have the ability to experience at full tilt in whole darkness – no holding again!
MB6 Mountain Bike Mild – Key Specs:
The MB6’s purpose-built optics embody three greater LED lights up prime and one smaller gentle on the underside. The sunshine gives a most output of over 6000 lumens.
Full On Lighting’s Extremely Extensive Beam design lights up a large space round you, overlaying your complete discipline of view. Bourquin says the best way our eyes understand velocity is thru peripheral imaginative and prescient. Creating a light-weight that illuminates the realm surrounding the rider reduces tunnel imaginative and prescient, will increase spatial consciousness, and helps them gauge their velocity on night time rides.
One attention-grabbing characteristic of the MB6 is its Lively Mild Management. This characteristic routinely adjustments the throw and depth of the sunshine’s output relying on how briskly you’re driving. By shining brighter at excessive speeds and dimming at decrease speeds, this mode helps protect battery life.
A intelligent characteristic is the MB6’s ‘Hangout Mode’. This mode places out 100 lumens to the smaller decrease gentle solely, and gained’t blind different individuals in the event you cease to speak throughout an evening experience. This mode kicks in whenever you’re not shifting.
If you happen to don’t like the thought of the sunshine controlling itself, the MB6 does have guide settings as properly. It may be run at Excessive (3750 lumens) or Low (1500 lumens).
The MB6 gentle is comprised of an aluminum physique wrapped with a polycarbonate shell. This design optimizes weight, thermal efficiency, and sturdiness. The sunshine itself weighs underneath 120g. The battery provides one other 390g to the general package deal.
The MB6 gentle is waterproof to an IP67 ranking, and the battery meets the IPX5 normal so it is going to hold moisture from rain and bike washing out.
Full On Lighting determined to make the MB6 Mountain Bike Mild appropriate with GoPro-style mounts. There are many helmets already accessible with built-in clip-on mounts, and this method permits for centered handlebar mounting with a stem cap mount just like the one pictured.
Battery:
The MB6’s battery might be strapped to your body (for handlebar use), and it has a rubber strip on the again so it is going to keep put and never scratch your bike. If you happen to desire the sunshine in your helmet, the battery can be tossed in a backpack. The MB6 gentle system makes use of USB-C cables to provide energy. Two cables are included within the field for both handlebar or helmet mounting.
Listed runtimes are as follows: 2.5 hours in Lively Mild Management Mode, 2.4 hours in Excessive, 7.2 hours in Low, and 120 hours in Hangout Mode. An LED show on the battery reveals its remaining life by proportion.
There’s one button on the battery, which reveals your cost standing when pressed. That is the one indicator of battery life, because the MB6 system doesn’t embody any audible or visible low battery warnings. If you happen to’re driving with the battery in your backpack, you’ll have to drag it out to verify in your energy provide.
The 72Wh battery costs in underneath two hours. It will possibly additionally double as an influence financial institution for smartphones/GPS gadgets, and so on.
Pricing:
The whole MB6 equipment consists of an MB6 Mild, battery with mounting strap, battery charger, two USB-C cables (one 50cm cable for handlebar mounting, one 1.2m cable for helmet mounting), a curved helmet mount, a flat helmet mount, and a handlebar mount.
The MB6 equipment will promote for $425 at full retail value. At the moment on Full On Lighting’s web site, you may signal as much as be notified of particular launch pricing. By way of their Kickstarter marketing campaign, the lights will probably be accessible for an introductory deal at $299.
Full On Lighting merchandise are designed, examined, and assembled on Vancouver Island, B.C.