In the event you’ve by no means gone evening driving, you’re lacking out! There’s one thing about driving within the darkness that makes even acquainted trails really feel new and completely different. It’s additionally a good way to increase your season within the quick days of spring and fall. Full On Lighting is a brand new firm from Vancouver Island, B.C. that wishes to make your evening rides safer and extra enjoyable with their incoming MB6 mild.
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, could be mounted to handlebars or helmets, and has an auto-adjusting mode that alters the sunshine’s output primarily based 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 mild choices have been both not vivid sufficient or didn’t illuminate a big sufficient space, Full On Lighting got down to create their very own merchandise that would clear up these issues. Talking with Bourquin at their Crankworx Whistler sales space, he stated he desires to have the ability to journey at full tilt in complete darkness – no holding again!
MB6 Mountain Bike Mild – Key Specs:
The MB6’s purpose-built optics embody three larger LED lights up high and one smaller mild on the underside. The sunshine gives a most output of over 6000 lumens.
Full On Lighting’s Extremely Large Beam design lights up a large space round you, overlaying your whole subject of view. Bourquin says the way in which our eyes understand velocity is thru peripheral imaginative and prescient. Creating a lightweight that illuminates the realm surrounding the rider reduces tunnel imaginative and prescient, will increase spatial consciousness, and helps them gauge their velocity on evening 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 mild solely, and gained’t blind different individuals should you cease to speak throughout an evening journey. This mode kicks in while you’re not shifting.
In the event you don’t like the concept of the sunshine controlling itself, the MB6 does have handbook settings as properly. It may be run at Excessive (3750 lumens) or Low (1500 lumens).
The MB6 mild is constructed from an aluminum physique wrapped with a polycarbonate shell. This design optimizes weight, thermal efficiency, and sturdiness. The sunshine itself weighs beneath 120g. The battery provides one other 390g to the general package deal.
The MB6 mild is waterproof to an IP67 ranking, and the battery meets the IPX5 commonplace so it can preserve 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 obtainable with built-in clip-on mounts, and this technique permits for centered handlebar mounting with a stem cap mount just like the one pictured.
Battery:
The MB6’s battery could be strapped to your body (for handlebar use), and it has a rubber strip on the again so it can keep put and never scratch your bike. In the event you want the sunshine in your helmet, the battery can be tossed in a backpack. The MB6 mild system makes use of USB-C cables to produce 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. In the event you’re driving with the battery in your backpack, you’ll have to tug it out to verify in your energy provide.
The 72Wh battery expenses in beneath two hours. It might additionally double as an influence financial institution for smartphones/GPS units, and so on.
Pricing:
The whole MB6 equipment contains 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 worth. Presently on Full On Lighting’s web site, you possibly can signal as much as be notified of particular launch pricing. Via their Kickstarter marketing campaign, the lights shall be obtainable for an introductory deal at $299.
Full On Lighting merchandise are designed, examined, and assembled on Vancouver Island, B.C.
