one downside to a light on your head is if you try to speak to anybody you blind them. you can have a second light on the handlebar using same logic - light head is on the bar and battery is elsewhere on the frame. lights with integrated battery are heavy and tend to slide and not maintain where you aimed them. the handlebar light can illuminate the ground directly in front of the bike while the helmet light should be the more expensive one and can illuminate further and be aimed in different directions. @Prince Aleph @HERMETICVM

The new shit seems to be a dynamo in one of the wheel hubs that fires a USB C hub and mounted lights. Endurance riders swear on it and they’re slowly becoming an option on modern gravel bikes meant for bike packing. Too much hassle for me though, I don’t like too much stuff mounted on my bicycles. I have a battery pack and two lights in my top tube bag. Now I need to look up easily pluggable lightweight spoke reflectors, that was a good suggestion! I really should wear my helmet on these rides. Would you use a normal headlight or a special one that’s attached to the helmet itself?