Light And Motion Vis 1000 Review

The Organisation Killer

I've been regularly dark riding since long before I had to.That is before I had a family and riding at night became a matter of fitting in my ready. I've owned a number of top-end systems, including some from Light And Motion, and ridden some interesting exotic systems. I love to ride janky North Shore trails in the nighttime, peculiarly
Fromme
trails similar Pipeline and Lower Crippler, and my friends Andy and Chris take been known to cajole me into night time adventures down much harder Fromme-fair outside of my after-hours comfort-zone.

I ride often enough at night to justify investing in good lights that will be reliable in all weather atmospheric condition, maintain their max brightness over sustained riding, and give me years of hard use and the trails I'thou riding are technical enough to warranty packing a lot of lumens into the forest.

This is a review of two lights made past Light And Motility, which has been one of the most established and appreciated bicycle light brands since 1995. The Vis Pro g is skillful. The Seca Comp 2000 is a beauty. Both are squeamish pieces that I've been happily riding in weather both fierce and friendly. It'due south an all-in-one 'Organization Killer' handlebar-calorie-free that I recommend to anyone and anybody.

Vis Pro 1000 Trail

Light And Movement's Vis Pro chiliad Trail light's spot beam delivers a very usable 1000 lumens of light for one.5 hours and passes my basic requirement for a helmet light in that it uses a GoPro mount. It's likewise fairly feathery for an all-in-one system at merely over 120-grams. I like information technology. I have lots of hours riding it. I have recommended it to a few friends. It's a slap-up little lamp.

For my purposes, the Vis Pro is a solid product with comparables. It runs for 30 minutes longer than the Blackburn
Dayblazer
on the highest setting and throws a like corporeality of light for an extra twoscore USD. Information technology shaves about 65-grams off the Bontrager
Ion Pro
albeit delivering a bit less effulgence over the aforementioned 90 minutes of riding for a ten USD premium - 135 USD for the Vis Pro versus 125 USD for the Ion Pro.

I adopt the cosmetics of the Dayblazer but think that appearance aside, the Ion Pro delivers the best punch-per-dollar on a danky-janky dark ride. I'm okay with the Vis Pro in use and the quality of manufacturing has a more premium fit-and-terminate than either of the other light sets.

Low-cal And Motion has a great reputation for quality manufacturing and after-sale support and then there is a lot to like about this system bated from its manners on the trail. I'd love to see a bigger version of the Vis Pro that throws more light for the same run time without packing on the grams like the Seca Comp so it would remain head-mountain friendly.

It'south not the min-max winner. Bontrager puts out more juice for less money. Blackburn is 30-minutes shy on the runtime of being a category darling but even so manages to put out a similar amount of low-cal for less money using the same nigh universal mounting arrangement.

Seca Comp 2000

This thing is the arrangement killer. No extension cable to wreck, no separate battery to misplace. I, for one, hail our compact-light-lords! We've been in a higher place freezing, but withal fairly crisp, and runtime is every bit advertised on this light set.

I have not used any light setup to date that would convince me to spend more than. This has an intense spot beam with a good for you amount of diffusion, then I tin can see the whole trail. On slow techy North-Shore night rides the system stays bright even with no rain-cooling and limited airflow. The light colour is warm enough for saturated slop and the output is equally bright as I need all for 230 USD.

I'd love for the Seca Comp, nee Taz, 2000 to be cheaper, lighter, and take twice the run time on full-blast. And how about a COVID vaccine for Christmas when we're at it!? When information technology comes to actual potential upgrades, I would prefer the base to exist GoPro compatible as original equipment. I really similar the universality of the rubber-strap mountain for handlebar use. I likewise mountain it on the fork of my cargo bike for commuting. If Calorie-free And Move sold GoPro compatible condom straps separately I'm sure they would be a popular upgrade for all compatible camera systems. I missed it, thank you anopsa, but Fifty&M does offer a
Seca Comp GoPro mount
for 10 USD.

In the name of science, I bolted on the mountain from another system and so I could try it. It was okay at best. Heavy on my head but livable. The Seca Comp 2000 works very well on my bar so I've gone back to running it in that location but certainly, if there was a solid helmet mount interface I'd strap this to the side of my
Project 23
total-face and never look back. It'southward a lot heavier than other lights I've been using on my lid, but mounted off the mentum bar that doesn't seem to be an upshot.

I really don't similar extension cables and all the bug I've had with them. It started equally a helmet thing and I'll never get back to having a carve up battery and cord for lights on my hat. I've never much minded the extra collection of bits and bobbles for my helmet mount only now that the potential for high-powered cocky-contained lite sets is so apparent to me, thank you to the Seca Comp, I'm washed with extension cables and expensive separated systems for all applications.

Information technology'due south virtually impossible to go wrong with Light And Motion for your night riding investment. I think they're delivering some fantastic value in a triumvirate of quality, brightness, and usability. Tops on that charge for after-dark excellence is the Seca Comp 2000. Why pay twice as much for an extension cord and some fancy waterproof plugs? That's just looking at Fifty&M's other options! The Seca Comp 2000 has a not bad combination of miss-zero floodlighting and go-there spotlighting for any application.

I can make a few different min-max arguments for what calorie-free is best combined with the Seca Comp on the handlebars only suffice it to say that keeping it in the family results in a good experience with the Vis Pro 1000 Trail System. It just doesn't accept a best-in-evidence value lock similar the Seca.

Lite And Motion's future systems will likely we'll go along with total line of lighter weight, longer running, GoPro mount lights in the Taz/Seca Comp tradition. In the concurrently, combined with the
Vis Pro
at 135 USD or with another helmet-mounted system, at 230 USD, the
Seca Comp 2000
is the best lighting package I've come across.

Self-independent lumens for the win.