In Praise of Exposure Lights

[roubaixtuesday]

My Sirius light was dropped at speed (an impact that might shatter a less robust light) and developed a flicker.

Exposure fixed it (rrp £110) for £17.

Excellent service and great not to add to landfill.

[SimonCelsa]

Was the drop at speed due to some fault with their supplied lamp bracket? If so, then they should be expected to fix it for free.

I see they are now selling the Exposure Strada for around £325 !!! For a front light, Jesus wept.

[roubaixtuesday]

Was the drop at speed due to some fault with their supplied lamp bracket? If so, then they should be expected to fix it for free.

I see they are now selling the Exposure Strada for around £325 !!! For a front light, Jesus wept.

No, the drop was entirely my fault.

Exposure lights brackets are, IMO, by far the best I've had; most light brackets are awful.

Re. cost: I've commuted with a Strada as my main light for about 15 years, using it every day through winter. Vime's boots.

[Carlton green]

Was the drop at speed due to some fault with their supplied lamp bracket? If so, then they should be expected to fix it for free.

I see they are now selling the Exposure Strada for around £325 !!! For a front light, Jesus wept.

No, the drop was entirely my fault.

Exposure lights brackets are, IMO, by far the best I've had; most light brackets are awful.

Re. cost: I've commuted with a Strada as my main light for about 15 years, using it every day through winter. Vime's boots.

Whilst the prices are too steep for me if you want a high quality niche product that’s (apparently) made in the West then be prepared to dig deep. Eventually the supply of cheap made in China goods will dry up and - like it once was - we’ll be forced to pay for local (higher) manufacturing costs. Fifteen years and still going for something whose high quality light output saves you from accident and allows best progress (speed) might be considered a good return on an £110 investment.

Vime’s boots are a great example of the value of buying quality goods - provided that’s what you actually get sold, rather than cheaper stuff at a high price … who hasn’t been a victim of some such sales. Vime’s boots have bitten me too many times and too painfully . Of course it’s difficult to know how much - or little - you need to spend to get something durable and adequate for your purposes. In the past I’ve both over and underbought; as a tip it almost always ends up better to slightly overbuy. If you can’t afford more than tat then - if at all possible - don’t push your luck and (instead) save up until you can (afford better). My buying philosophy now is: I don’t need the best, but what I do need is: at least good enough, affordable and reliable .

On service I think it great that a company has stood behind its products. To my mind the repair cost was a bargain and well done Exposure Lights.

Excellent service and great not to add to landfill.

Quite, and not having to spend time investigating a good replacement and then further time sorting out mounting, etc., is rather valuable too.

I see they are now selling the Exposure Strada for around £325 !!! For a front light, Jesus wept.

I really would struggle to justify spending that much on a light, but some folk readily have the funds and if that’s the tool that they (really do) need for the job then …

[freeflow]

I had the opposite experience. As an early adopter of exposure lights my light used a bolt to secure to the handle bar bracket. The bolt came loose one day and the resulting fall damaged a plastic bracket inside the light. Exposure were unable to offer a fix. Which, for a. £300 light in the early 2000's, was a bit of a bummer. I stopped being an early adopter at that point and have strongly recommended against purchasing exposure lights ever since.

[ket]

I got my first ones, Flash and Flare for a Brompton, in 2011 and still use the same units which have since been upgraded during this period. When I had an issue on a similar vintage Joystick, the option of replacing the battery was much appreciated. I valued being able to actually speak to someone and discuss options like changing batteries to rechargeable ones like Trace/Tracer.