If you're a commuter or otherwise ride regularly at night in bad weather, there are bigger and brighter rear lights available from Lezyne and other manufacturers, and you can also find rear lights which are either cheaper, physically smaller or have longer battery life. On price, the recommended retail is a penny under £30, but you can find it discounted by a few quid at your local bike shop and the usual on-line stores. It may have been more usefully positioned on the side of the light housing.
If you're riding without mudguards in the rain, road spray from the back wheel may eventually penetrate. The USB port on the light is protected by a rubber flap which is certainly enough to keep out the rain, especially as it's additionally protected under the body of the light. The aluminium lens ring is available in red, black or silver. Other features to mention: The on/off/settings button is easy to use, even with gloves on. The same indicators show you when the light is nearly out of charge as well. It takes a couple of hours via the computer, and there's a set of colourful little indicators to show you when the light is fully charged. Recharging is via a micro USB port and cable which you plug into a USB port on your computer, or into an on-the-wall socket adaptor. The shape of the beam on the Zecto Drive is fairly narrow and, although the Lezyne website claims 180 degree visibility, in reality the brightness of the light when viewed from the side is pretty minimal – but certainly better than nothing.
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For those cyclists that use two lights, something with a constant beam plus the Zecto Drive in flash mode would be an ideal combination. Towards the end of the charge, the various flash modes switched to constant (although comparatively dull) and kept going for another hour. In practice, these battery life figures are about right. The Zecto Drive has six modes, including three different 'flash' patterns (all at 10 lumens, ranging from about three to four hours claimed battery life), constant 'economy' (five lumens, four hours), constant 'blast' (10 lumens, 2:45) and 'daytime' – a very bright double flash (20 lumens, seven hours). You can also fit it to your helmet via an additional mount supplied with the light. Ideally, the strip of fabric on your saddle pack needs to be quite thick, otherwise the Zecto's clip will not grip tightly. You can also fix the Zecto Drive to your saddle pack or backpack via the sturdy plastic clip on the back of the light, or even to the belt of your trousers if you're just nipping out to the pub. It's the work of a moment, but still a slight design oddity that could have been easily avoided. And one slight niggle: the rubber band is not attached to the equivalent position on each side of the light, which has the effect of pulling it slightly to one side, so you need to carefully align it to make sure the beam is pointing straight back towards traffic approaching from behind. On the downside, this rubber band may have the potential to snap, but it's pretty strong and durable, and as long as you don't over-stretch it (a round a big frame tube, for example) it should be fine.Īnother advantage: the rubber band is held in place on one side of the light so you can't accidently lose it. The rubber band means the Zecto Drive light very quick to fit, and easy to swap between bikes. The clip is slightly angled to take account of most seatpost angles, so the beam itself is still pretty much horizontal. It clips to your bike's seat post via a big rubber band (as do several other types of Lezyne rear light), assuming your seat post is cylindrical. With three LEDs contained within a red lens 35mm in diameter, and the additional housing a little bigger all round (45x45mm, by 25mm deep), the Zecto Drive Rear Light is very neat and compact. It's also rechargeable, waterproof and fairly priced. It's neat, bright, and clips easily to your bike, helmet or backpack. The Zecto Drive Rear Light from Lezyne is an absolute little gem.
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