I’ve just been over on Singletrack reading the press release for the new range of USE lights which include the MaXx Daddy for the next incarnation of the new Exposure MaXx range, dubbed ‘MaXx 2′. There’s some cracking new ideas from the Petworth crowd!
MaXx Daddy
The MaXx D (for Daddy I presume) looks brilliant and at 1000 lumens and maintaining the CFD (cable free design) that originally convinced me to go with a USE light in the first place all those years ago, it has got blow Hope out of the water. I’m also loving the RedEye rear light:
Red Eye
A genius idea, and certainly one I’ll be investing in for the roadie – although I’ll be honest in that I reckon it’s overkill for MTBs unless you do a lot of road miles to reach the trails.
The new power switch is also a really good idea to make the on-off switch more easily accessible (something many seemed to struggle with at D2D last year and at the Bonty where you have to turn off or cover your lights so your time can be recorded each lap). There’s also the RedEye Micro which acts as an add-on to the Joystick MaXx to serve as a mini rear light when the Joystick is lid-mounted, and seems to glow when the light is off to serve as a map reading light, or to help you find your light in the dark.
Good to see some decent home-grown stuff! Nice one Rory & Co.
Slim
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Hummerlicious says:
September 3, 2008 at 8:34 am (UTC 0)
Loving that rear light
Damo says:
September 3, 2008 at 10:24 am (UTC 0)
Looks good, hopefully they have adressed the beam spread and they also need to get rid of the clamp that you have to adjust with an allen key. Then add on the fly adjustment and i will buy one again.
Burrowman says:
September 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm (UTC 0)
When are they in the shops?
Hoopless says:
September 3, 2008 at 6:44 pm (UTC 0)
A rear light with no visible sideways illumination???
*Squish* goes another biker.
Pike says:
September 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm (UTC 0)
Looks better than the first pics that had silver trim round the front! I swear I saw it for £250 something on CRC yesterday, but its £299 today!
fingers says:
September 3, 2008 at 9:13 pm (UTC 0)
gotta get me one of them rears and remote control switch.
Big Si says:
September 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm (UTC 0)
Hopefully that lens is tougher than it looks, one flick of a medium sized branch and it could all end in tears!
Dobby says:
September 12, 2008 at 11:46 am (UTC 0)
As well as the new ‘Daddy’ their existing lights (Race, Enduro, Joystick) are going to be upraded to Maxx-2 with a new SPT ‘smart’ socket, so you can plug in rear lights and/or a remote switch.
I like the idea of mounting a Red-Eye on the back of a helmet —>http://www.use1.com/exposure/products/redeye/index.php