On 15 Oct 2004 06:37:49 -0700, (Never Enough
Money) wrote:

I went hiking with some buddies yesterday morning starting in the dark
at 6:00 A.M. We used headlamps till it was light enough to see. These
things have really improved in the past few years!

Tell me about it! I mountain bike at night! G

Anybody use headlamps in their shop?

Sometimes.

Seems a company called Petzl makes the high end ones. Their are
cheaper clones from China out there, too.

High end? Check out these:

http://www.niterider.com/index.htm

A bicycle can be moving 10 times the speed of a good hiker, and
deliver the same multiple of impact to the light in a crash. 8^(
Hiking lights are too easy to out ride the beam on a bicycle. These
are also the lights used by most Police bike squads.

With a $400 HID headlamp, I can ride for 3+ hours and see better than
daylight. I can recharge it in one hour.

Outdoors at night is the best!

Barry