Helmet Mounted Lights?

Yes, they are brite enough. They actually work better then headlights because they shine where you look. I like Cyclops halogen helmet lights personally. We do a bit of MX racing at night and with just helmet lights we can go the same pace at night that we do during the day..


Your options are;
Cyclops
Trail Tech
Lead dog

have you used more than one of those? Got a preference?

I've only run with CB using the lead dog, seemed to work well, but I've got no comparison to the others.

Imo, I agree though, the lead dog was notably more effective than headlights in mixed terrain. Where on a sled if you went into a dip, your lights would just shine in that snow, reflect back at you & give you nothing, with a helmet light you can keep looking where you need to go & what you NEED illuminated will always be lit up.

I ran the Lead Dog too after I installed a lightweight hood on my old King Cat. Very bright and it shines wherever you look. Anyone that followed me on the trail liked it too because the red light shows up nicely above the cloud of snow. You can actually hook it up to the brake light although I never did. I've still got it ad use it on my 2010 M8 along with the headlight.

backcountryislife said:

have you used more than one of those? Got a preference?

I've only run with CB using the lead dog, seemed to work well, but I've got no comparison to the others.

Imo, I agree though, the lead dog was notably more effective than headlights in mixed terrain. Where on a sled if you went into a dip, your lights would just shine in that snow, reflect back at you & give you nothing, with a helmet light you can keep looking where you need to go & what you NEED illuminated will always be lit up.

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I've used all three of the brands I mentioned. Currently have Cyclops 50watt halogen, Cyclops MR16 HID, Trail Tech MR16 HID and a old lead dog 35w halogen. I'm a bit of a odd ball, I like halogen, most guys like HID more but I find the HID light to intense for my eyes and for offroad racing it lights the dust up too much, like driving in a blizzard with your highbeam on. The nice this about halogen is that you can run it off ac or dc. The nice thing about HID is that is uses about half the wattage of halogen for the same brightness. The HID's go a long time on a battery pack, 3 hrs with our set up whereas a halogen only will go 1-1.5hr. I've done some laps at our local 24hr race with as many as 3 helmet lights on my lid with no bike light, really brite but you can feel the weight, lap times with just helmets lights are just as fast as when I'm using a helmet light and my 8" race light. Weight wise our halogens are lighter then our HIDs. I think a good bike or sled mounted light with a 50watt halogen helmet light is hard to beat, only thing that would be better is two 50w halogen helmet lights and machine mounted light IMO. Unless your riding trail you need a helmet light at night.