Cateye TL-LD500

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One of the few lights that will mount on a back rack... or at least mount on my back rack. There's a self-tapping (meaning, when you screw the screw in, it's cutting threads to grip to in the light) screw and a matching hole, plus a prong to go in the bottom hole of the rack so it doesn't rotate. It makes the lightswitch a little hard to get to, however.

It's also one of the few lights that has a CSPC reflector. Now, I think that the CSPC reflector standard is pretty lame, but it's better than nothing at all. The law requires that I have both a reflector and a light in the back and I think that it's fairly reasonable. It's in the same vein as the ViewPoint FlashPoint High Intensity Taillight, except the ViewPoint light is brighter.

It takes two AAA batteries and has a nice long battery life.

The button broke on mine, so I stopped using it. I replaced it with a PlanetBike Rack Blinky, which is brighter and has a slightly nicer mounting.

Copyright 2007, Ken Wronkiewicz
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Last Updated: 2010-07-25 04:35PM
Posted: 2009-03-10 01:16PM