What are the differences between helmet and bar mounted lights?
A bar mounted light mounts on the handlebar and a helmet mounted light rides up on your helmet. For a modest riding pace a powerful bar mounted light is often good enough. A well designed bar mount will provide 50-100 feet of clear well balanced illumination and will often suffice until the trail becomes steep and windy or your riding speed increases significantly. While a bar mounted light illuminates the path directly in front of you, a helmet light allows to you to put additional light where your eyes may need it. Often this is further beyond the throw of your bar mounted light to anticipate changes in the trail, or around a corner as you turn and your bar light points off the trail. Because of the tendency for helmet lights to have long distance spot beams they are most often used in conjunction with a bar mounted light rather than alone. So a bar-mounted, a helmet-mounted, or a dual setup, which is better? Your final answer depends on you. A double light setup will always be a saf
