Best Front Bike Lights

As the clocks change and the UK Winter Nights draw in even further, it’s more important than ever to make sure that you have a set of bike lights on your bike, allowing you to continue riding through the autumn, winter and even spring months.

As well as being a fundamental safety tool for cyclists who head out onto the roads, bike lights are also important for those taking a bike off road - with bike lights being needed to light up the trails for both mountain bikers and also gravel riders.

Regardless of the type of bike you are purchasing bike lights for, there’s one thing guaranteed - all bike lights available today, are designed and manufactured using LED technology, and the best bike lights also rely on lithium ion battery technology, which provides quicker charging and longer lasting battery life - allowing you to see where you are going, better and for longer.

As with everything in the world of cycling - bike lights have become brighter and better - with light outputs increasingly massively, we have front bike lights for sale with Lumens approaching 5,000 Lumens, which is brighter than some car headlights!

The bike lights below are the best front bike lights available within the industry, these bike lights have been designed with the very best LED technology and lighting performance, these bike lights have been designed and optimised to light the way - keeping you safe and visible.

There’s bike lights within this range designed for both road bikes and mountain bikes - budget wise, you can really spend as much as you like on these bike lights, and these bike lights are perfect for riders who really want to completely illuminate the route ahead.

Below we run through some of the best, that we have in stock:

Exposure Lights MaXx-D Mk16 with Reflex Technology

The Maxx-D Mk16 kicks out an incredible 4800 lumens from it’s 4 LED lights, using a unique beam pattern to provide light, exactly where you need it. There’s two spot beams and also two spread beams - meaning that you can enjoy unparalleled views of not only the route ahead, but also the area immediately around the bike.

With such power, it’s important to see the status of the light - providing an easy to read view of the current light mode, remaining time and battery percentage, allowing you to make decisions on what power mode to run the light. This leads us nicely onto the runtime of the light - which varies massively, the runtime can run provide light from two hours across to 36 hours, meaning this light is incredibly versatile, and can be used across all kinds of rides, from short and intensive trail rides, to longer cross country rides.

Reflex technology not only assists in the amount of light produces, but also helps conserve battery life - reflex technology analyses your speed and your surroundings, adjusting brightness levels automatically - giving you more light when you are riding fast, and less light when you are riding slow, saving battery life when heading up ascents.

This bike light is also lightweight - it’s just 310g and its designed to last, as well as ultra tough construction, this light also has intelligent thermal management - meaning that if the light senses that the LED’s are overheating - it reduces power.

Knog Blinder X 2300 Front Light

The Blinder X 2300 Front Bike Light is as aggressive, exciting and as bold as it sounds - it’s designed for riders who want maximum output, and the very best performance. The 2300 in the name of this product stands for the amounts of lumens that this bike light produces. It’s also got one of the best handlebar mounting systems that we’ve seen - and there’s mipressive run times.

Usability wise, there’s six different light modes - these light modes allows the rider to quickly adapt to riding conditions, whether that’s terrain being ridden across, or the light conditions of the evening or night.

Lezyne Mega Drive 2400+ Front LED Light

The Mega Drive is suitably named, it’s the most powerful light in the Lezyne collection. It provides a massive 2400 lumens which provides 2 hours of light. There’s eight different lighting modes for riders who want to save on power, these modes are a fantastic addition to this light, with an unbelievable 450 hour run time in Femto mode. The light is machind from aluminium and has cooling fins to keep the LED lights cool and efficient. Attaching this light is simple, with a strap which securely fits this light to a variety of handlebar sizes.

Garmin Varia Cycle Headlight (Trail Edition)

Garmin produce highly technologically advanced kit - and they’ve designed their range of bike lights to be just that. This bike light is a high intensity cycling headlight which shines brighter for longer, it’s visible from 1 mile away durin daylight hours, and provides 800 lumens for one and a half hours. The bike light is smart too, it can work with compatible cycling computers - and automatically adjusts to ambient light conditions, riding speed and also ride profile - optimising battery life - this sees typical battery performance provide 4 hours of light. The bike light looks great, and it’s lightweight too - weighing just 140grams.

Busch and Muller IXOn Rock

BUSCH and MULLER produce some pretty impressive bike lights, and this model is no different - manufactured out of high grade alumniu, this headlight has a 100 lux output - perfectly bridging the gap between high performance and compact design. This light can be charged within three hours, and also has a really useful power bank mode, so if you are stuck out on the trails without a dead mobile phone, this light can charge your phone for you.

Designers have tested the optimum light range needed for a cyclist to be safe - and this light beam starts one metre infront of the bike - alliwng the rider to see obstacles immediately infront of the bike. This light has been approved by german road traffic regulations, so can be relied upon to provide strong, reliable and safe performance.

Front Bike Lights

At Westbrook Cycles, we stock and supply an excellent range of front bike lights, encompassing both front bike lights for mountain bikes and road bikes. These bike lights have all been sourced from the world’s leading bike manufacturers, and we have tested them ourselves for both performance and reliability. You can view the complete range here, and as always - please get in touch if you have any questions about any of the range.