Best Front Bike Lights 2024 | Top 6 Bike Lights For Road Cycling

These are the best front bike lights that you can buy for road cycling in 2023. road.cc has been busy testing loads of bicycle lights and these are our recommendations for road cycling in 2024.

Whether you want to light up the road ahead, or are looking for bike lights to improve your safety on the road or want to extend your road rides into darkness then we’re confident there’s something for you here.

Our categories cover: best cheap front bike light, best front bike light under £100, best overall front bike light for 2024, best money no object front bike light and best front bike light and camera combo.

You can find more of the best front bike lights that we’ve tested and full reviews of all the bike lights mentioned here: https://road.cc/buyers-guide/best-front-bike-lights

To compare front bike lights head over to our beam engine: https://road.cc/content/feature/roadcc-front-bike-lights-beam-test-296975

Which front bike light would you have? Let us know in the comments section below…

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0:00 Introduction
0:16 Ravemen CR450 front bike light
1:30 ETC F1500 front bike light
2:20 Outbound Lighting Detour bike light
3:19 How we test front bike lights
4:20 Giant Recon HL1800 front light
5:13 Cycliq Fly 12 front bike light and camera
6:10 Exposure Strada SB bike light
7:11 More of the best front bike lights
8:02 Outro

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It’s cold, it’s dark, and it’s wet. It must be time to test out some bike lights. Here at Road tc. We’ve been busy working our way through hundreds of bike lights and these are the very best. Stay tuned for our favorite ways to get seen, stay safe, and to illuminate the road ahead.

We’ll start off with this rather cost effective way of seriously improving your on-road visibility. Even in my relatively short cycling career, I can remember small, cheap bike lights being a, however that’s all changed, something like this. Ravemen CR 450,

Both impressive stats with a maximum output of 450 lumens and can be picked up for less than 40 quid. If you shop about thanks to lights like these, there really is now no excuse for not using one and even in decent weather,

I now always try and ride with a front flasher so I have added visibility and peace of mind. Rayman CR four 50 is small light and runs for as long as most of us would ever want to ride for. On the lower lumen setting, it has a rather useful remote switch,

Which is well very useful to switch between MO modes on the go and you can even keep using it while it charges from a battery pack. If you want to extend its runtime, you get six modes with the high beam offering 450 lumens and lasting for around a hundred minutes.

While it’s certainly not the brightest light that you can buy for being seen, this light is well worth it and for a reasonable price. It’s also just about bright enough on its high setting to see where you’re going on the odd unlit shortcut. Of course,

Many riders don’t want to let a bit of darkness stop them and for that you’re gonna need something a little bit bigger. The ETCF 1500 front light kicked out a rather predictable 1500 lumens on its brightest setting, which we found to be more than enough for the majority of our road riding.

It also has plenty of features that you’d expect to only find on more expensive lights, such as an effective daytime running mode, which lasts around 30 hours and smart mode functions which automatically adjust the brightness to your surroundings. My surroundings are a tunnel, quite a cold, wet tunnel.

It’s equipped with USBC charging and is easy to operate. The mounting rack is simple but effective and allows fitment both on arrow and round profile handlebars. There’s more to alight than lumens and that’s why we put loads of bike lights through our extensive beam test. More on that in a minute.

When it comes to beam shape, no front bike light impressed us more than the outbound lighting detour. The detour uses a pair of LEDs with custom reflectors to cast a wide beam with a distinct cutoff at the top so it doesn’t shine straight into the eyes of oncoming riders or drivers.

Whether you care about the oncoming traffic or not, the light actually goes where you want it, so it’s a win-win really, the detour has clever features like the mounting system, which nicks an idea from the world of photography, apparently is basically a scaled down Manto RC two quick release.

That’s something that’s used to fit and remove cameras from tripods. It also features an adaptive mode and has the ability to run off an external battery for longer life, which adds to its appeal. Outbound lighting have got the basics right too with quick charging from USBC and the six modes.

Were enough to cover pretty much any situation you might find yourself in. Before we take a look at the final three front lights that have made the cut, including the light, which has won our best overall front bike light for 2024. Here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes of our annual lights test.

If you haven’t already subscribed to the channel, then why not click the button now? So every year we go to our top secret testing location, a dark lane just off the A 360 7 in cume. Hey, with a barrage of lights, a willing volunteer, some cones and a big camera.

The idea is that with all the lights in one place, we can begin to draw comparisons between them and build a better picture about the capabilities of the lights more than their lumen outputs alone. Let on the second part of the beam test is a little bit more mysterious and

Involves Dave disappearing into his shed for a few days and emerging with lots of useful graphs, allowing us to categorically say how wide a beam is and where the light is actually going. If you are interested in finding out a bit more about the beam test or want to

Compare loads of lights, then head over to the road CC website. We’ll pop a link in the description below. Taking our overall title this year is the giant Recon HL 1800. When we tested its predecessor a few years ago, the HL 1600, we didn’t think it could get much better, but it has,

It’s now even more user-friendly and some improved features such as 200 lumen power bump, a more compact size and some Garmin head unit integration. It’s also decent valuer under a hundred pounds. If you shop around. There are five modes which are simple to navigate and on the brightest setting,

Our reviewer could get almost two hours out of it. You will of course get much more on lower beam settings, but most importantly, the burn times are accurate and you’re not gonna get caught out. Our reviewer concluded that if you are after a single unit slash compact front

Light that can handle the darkest of conditions and impress impractically every measure that matters, it’s hard to see past the giant recon HL 1800. Bam. Enough said. As we said earlier, cycling tech has come on quite some way in the last few years and one of those areas is cameras.

There are some bike lights that combine illumination with footage capturing abilities, and our current favorite is the Fly 12 Sport from Aussie brand site click. This latest version has an OLED display, four K playback and up seven hours of battery life.

It’s also quite a lot lighter than the previous version shedding about 25% of its weight come in at just 148 grams. A 64 gigabyte microSD card is supplied, which should capture many hours of footage before you need to buy another,

And we found the footage from cyclic cameras to be good enough for projects with higher production values as well as just recording the commute or reporting a near miss. The beam itself has a max brightness of 400 lumens with solid pulse and flash

Modes and is ideal for road cycling and commuting in all environments and even a brief foray onto an unlit path like number six, money, no object. I like this one and we’ll conclude with our best money. No object front bike like the exposure strata mark 11 ssb with

Active with AK, it’s definitely a lot of cash, but if you’ve got some dollar burning a hole in your pocket, then this is everything and more that even a pro cyclist would want in terms of light output, bill quality and tech offering 1600 lumens,

You’ll always have enough lights on offer and there’s seven modes to choose from, which are easy to navigate through the battery life is impressive for an all-in-one unit too, testing around two hours at full power to 36 hours on its lowest setting. There’s also some seriously class leading tech active technology, for example,

Enables the strata to respond to oncoming light sources and lower its output accordingly. We’ve continually been impressed with how well this works and active mode smoothly DIMMs the output as cars get closer to you and then returns up to full brightness quickly after they passed.

There is a few other lights that are worthy of a mention and scored a nine outta 10 in our reviews. The giant recon HL three 50 has an RRP of 34 99 and is a great BC light. The pro is LED 360.

RIGEL will set you back 54 point 99 and is a cheap way of seeing what’s ahead. The Magic Shine Ray 2,600 smart remote bike light packs a punch with 2,600 lumens for 113 pounds and the exposure joystick mark 16 and latest serious also scored very highly and are ideal for fitting to

Either your helmet or bar. In fact, this is a serious, it’s very good. The RMAN PR 2,400 USB dual lens front light is also well worth a look if you’re frequenting dark lanes or how about this Nog beby, the best headlamp style front light that we’ve tested.

Which of these lights would you pick or is there one that you think we need to urgently get in for review? Let us know in the comment section below. If you found this video useful or interesting, then please give us a like and subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss out on

More reviews advice and well us pring around on bikes. We’ll see you next time. Bam.