![]() He’s one of BikeRadar’s lead testers and knows how to push bikes and products to the limit, searching out the equipment that represents the best value for money. Since working for MBUK, Alex’s focus has moved to bike tech. Alex then moved back to the UK and put his vast knowledge of mountain biking to good use by landing a job working for MBUK magazine as features editor. Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. ![]() The cable is plenty long enough to mount the battery mid-ship, too.Īlex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. The battery’s straps are easy to tension up to securely attach it to a frame, and its thin profile means it fits in smaller places bulkier batteries can’t. The mount’s secure Garmin-style twist-lock fitment makes removing the light quick and easy, and the Allen key bar clamp is a bit fiddly to attach but provides a movement-free base for the light. If that’s not long enough for you, dropping it down to 4,400 lumens doubles run time, and there’s still plenty of light on tap. In our run time test, the Monteer 8000S Galaxy V2.0 Remote lasted for 1 hour 38 minutes on max power, slightly more than Magicshine’s claims. To improve things, Magicshine could have supplied a single length that attaches to itself.īeing picky, including proper mode and battery life indicators would be the icing on the cake, but run times are long enough to eliminate battery anxiety, and it’s literally blindingly obvious when the Monteer is set to its highest output. The Velcro strap’s two separate lengths make securing it to the bar tricky, too. Depending on where it’s mounted, this makes locating them harder than it could be. It’s a shame the remote control’s buttons aren’t permanently backlit, instead only lighting up when they’re pushed. Outputs are now easier to toggle, and the secondary remote button swaps between high and lower power modes with one push, removing the need to cycle through all the Monteer’s settings. The yellow/white tint is easy to see with and makes colours on the trail pop, helping improve definition, clarity and context without creating the overly contrasting light-to-dark shadows that bluer and whiter lights can.Īdding a wireless remote to the package is a significant improvement. The LED’s hue only adds to the experience. ![]() Not a single lumen gets wasted with an overly focused beam, either. The Monteer’s beam and power culminate in a night-riding experience that is as close to daytime as it can be: the gnarliest, most technical trails, even ones with sharp switchbacks, can be tackled with total confidence at high speed. It’s so broad and well controlled that exits of turns are almost as bright as the central focal point, and the breadth of the beam means the extreme peripheries of a trail are lit up like daytime. This even supply of light is thanks to the impressive beam pattern. Instead, the Monteer distributes its light evenly and broadly, far down the trail and out to the sides rather than focusing it directly in front of the light. With an output that still remains unmatched, the Monteer 8000S Galaxy truly lights up the entire trail with total, confidence-inspiring power.Ĭrucially, that immense illumination is impressively spread out, with no bleached hotspot of light.
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