Bargain - Hope LED from Merlin - Awesome Lights!

stevieboy

Merlin are currently knocking out the Hope LED lights (bar and helmet mount included) for £135. Its down as a weekly offer at the moment and is about £15 - £60 cheaper than anywhere else currently.

Bargain of the century if you ask me!

dirtbiker100

that the ones in mbuk and WMB recently? damn thats really tempting thanks for letting us know!

If you can afford it, run - don't walk - to buy this.

stevieboy

Yeah, same lamp unit, just not the stem faceplate version

dirtbiker100

Its ok i've already bought . £162 inc delivery. I hope (ha ha) its what I want. was looking at an exposure joystick maxx but at this price its hard to leave. helmet mount, bar mount, endurance battery option (a spare battery), long and short cables. wonder when i'll get it though if its out of stock at the moment.

shin0r

I wouldn't hold your breath, there seems to be a delay getting hold of Hope bits at the moment, I've been waiting for weeks for a stem to arrive.....

stevieboy

Yeah, thats why I ended up going for the standard option, it was the only one in stock and my LBS had told me already Hope were struggling to keep up with demand!

stevieboy

Used them for the first time last night and they are amazing, even on the lowest setting which provides 12hours use the light is easily bright enough to tackle what was fr me virgin technical singletrack. I only blipped it onto medium setting a few times when it got really tricky.

Overall really impressed and at £135 for 300 Lumens there can be no better!

Bromski

Damn!

I've only just spotted this thread and they've gone up to £150

Has anyone used the Light and Motion Stella? An LBS has just recommended them to me.

Rockhopper

No they havent, add them to your basket then check out and they go down to £134.96 inc free p and p.

Fuzzyboy

Stevieboy: Are you using this light on it's own or in conjunction with another? Also, do you have it on the bars or helmet? Thanks!

dirtbiker100

Bromski - A friend has a light and motion vega and its not too bad. Fairly bright but i haven't had a proper go with it.

Fuzzy boy - I'm planning on putting my hope on my bars and i've bought a petzl Tikka XP - which is a great little light - for when I come across chicanes etc and the bars are in the wrong direction. The boost feature on it is astounding, easily out shining my friends light and motion. but then of course its only on when holding a button down and for 20 seconds max.

Positioning of light. My friend and I rode a canal tow path the other night so he could test his new light, his was on his bars and I used my petzl headtorch. It wasn't one of these gravelly towpaths, it was actually a footpath (shhh don't tell anyone) with plenty of corners and big roots (some a good 10cm+ in diameter). He was getting scared because the roots looked huge because of the shadow his bar light gave them and when he rode over them they weren't as big as he thought. on the other hand, I couldn't even see the roots, not even the biggest of them. Because the light is above your eyes you don't see any shadow. the lower the light the bigger the shadows.
also with my not wide enough flood light I went of the edge of the path towards the canal off a 3 ft drop and was stopped by some bushes on the water edge.

always have a bar mounted light and make sure there is a decent flood on the light!

Fuzzyboy

Dirtbiker.. thanks for the info.

stevieboy

Fuzzyboy wrote:

Stevieboy: Are you using this light on it's own or in conjunction with another? Also, do you have it on the bars or helmet? Thanks!

I had it bar mounted on its own. The ride I was on was probably about as tight and twisty as it comes (literally bar width between trees in very dense forest) and at no point did it get to the stage where I felt the need for a headlight to back it up (bearing in mind this trail was totally new to me). One rider in the group had the opposite to me and he felt comfortable enough just using the Hope light as a head torch. The key I think to the lights succes is that the lamps are both flood lights with a very generous spread.

Steve

Fuzzyboy

Thanks! I'm very tempted!

stevieboy

At this price its hard not to be! Temptation certainly got the better of me!