New light to replace the Exposure Strada.

A few weeks ago after using it for two or three rides, my new Exposure Strada stopped working completely. In fact it was as dead as a door nail, there was no response at all to the power button or when attaching the charger. Anyhow, Rutland Cycles were great and paid the postage for it to go back to USE who repaired it and sent it back with a repair note saying 'reprogrammed'.

This time it lasted one more ride and again conked out, this time the five red charge lights came on when attaching the charger but that was all. This time Rutland cycles declared they didn't have any new Stradas and repaid my money so back to the drawing board...

With the refunded money rapidly burning a hole in my Paypal account I did a lot of research and chose the Exposure Diablo Mk.6, this time from Wiggle. This thing is tiny compared to the Strada but can chuck out a massive 1,300 lumens for one hour or the usual variants thereof depending on what mode it's in - 650 lumens for two hours or 260 lumens for five hours etc. I've only used it around the village so far, and very impressive it is, but I can't wait to try it on the four miles of unlit farm track on the local 22!