stadiums overpriced and overkill. Ive been night riding for 4 years with a single 15W helmet mounted Niterider, and its been good enough for everything as it throws a tight, bright spot just where you need it (ie. where youre looking, not where your bars happen to be pointing).
If you need 80W to nite ride, stick to day riding...Maybe its just me that thinks minimalism is the way, but if you want to EXPERIENCE the joy of nite riding, rather than merely extend your riding hours now its dark early, there IS such a thing as too much light.
If you must have lots of light the ideal set up is a flood on the bars and a spot on the helmet. The one disadvantage of just running a helmet lite is that as the beams travel on an essentially parallel path out and back you dont get shadows and so you lose depth perception. You adjust pretty easily tho.
The only thing worse than riding with someone with a Stadium is riding with someone who insists on running a rear flashing LED on the trails. Thankfully even the Red Bull 24hr commentators and organisers figured this and told people to turn em off.
Hmm bit of a rant there, think I need a coffee!
