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Looking for a new front light.
Like the idea of being able to use a remote to increase brightness when descending quickly and then being able to dip or lower brightness with a remote. Don’t want to have to go through a cycle of options- just full beam and dipped for saved battery life. Need 3hrs+ riding
What’s about and recommended . Don’t mind paying for quality.
The Ravemen PR1600 has a remote (wireless).
I've fitted it to my bike but can never remember what button does what 🙄 (it only has two) so never really bother to use it.
It does work well though, although I think if you hit main beam, you have to cycle through the power levels to get back to where you were. Although flicking from the single dipped beam to both beams is one button.
I think some of the other lights in the range come with a wired remote too
Garmin varia (I think) - you can do some kind of automation controlled by a garmin edge, or there's a remote which does full/low beam.
Exposure Strada with remote - you can program it to do what you're suggesting.
Expensive but worth every penny.
Had an Exposure remote on a Strada for a while but in the rain it was "interesting" !!!!
The Moon PR1600 i have is good but the remote buttons and the light buttons seems to
be the wrong way around - big on the light is the little on the remote ... hhhmmmm.
Bontrager and Garmin have some integration but it's a fiddle on the move.
I've got a Moon Storm and a Moon Storm Pro on my road and commuter bikes. Used at least twice weekly in all weathers for the past 3 winters. 1600-2000 lumens on full and I usually do similar to what you have described - 3/5 power most of the time, and 5/5 for dark potholed downhills. Used like this a typical 2 hour night ride drains about 50% of the battery.
Light hangs upside down from my GPS mount, remotes are attached with a cable and velcro to the bars.
Is the remote essential? My Lezyne front lights have a 'race mode' I think it's called that means a push on the button just switches you between a high and low setting, without going through fourteen levels of power.
Mine aren't new models, I suppose more recent ones might have remotes.
It depends where your lights are mounted. Mine are dangling upside down on 'out-front' mounts over my front wheel. Changing modes without a remote would be precarious at speed!!
Exposure fan here; high initial outlay but last for years.