I’ve just bought one for winter road running. What an AMAZING bit of kit. Can’t recommend this enough! Doesn’t even feel like you’re wearing a head torch, and the lighting performance is excellent.
Great review! This would be a great lamp, a red light in the back is important for running at night in town. Note: lumen is already a plural, so lumens is not right, 425 lumen is the max brightness.
Have you had a chance to try the Fenix HM65R-T for running? It's my ride-or-die headlamp, works really well for me. The Boa adjustment for me works great as well for different toques etc. Always a perfect fit, and WAY more than enough light.
@@StephenJReid lol No just regular honey bees. Through different climate they have different behavior like hanging out at the entrance and or ventilate the hive when it's hot out, I like to be out and check on them sometimes and see what they are doing!
You know why I don’t like the review. Because now I want one. You covered all the bases with your demonstration and the headlamp is very reasonable priced. Just find your channel today Some far I am enjoying your channel and your humour. Vancouver Island Canada
No it’s a built in rechargeable battery so might not meet those requirements. Unless the race also allows for a backup light instead. That’s what I do anyway. Always carry a spare headlamp in case my main one breaks or I manage to loose it
Thanks! Question: can you tilt the light down or up too? So you got it strapped to you head, and then if you've got traffic comming towards you, you don't want to blind them. The light I use I can move it up or down.. but it does not have a back light, and it also does not have this flood light. I'm biocurious.
I should have mentioned it, kinda a key feature, my bad. This is the headtorch I've used for night runs in mountains too. They do have a bigger version with even better battery but this one has worked well for me.
Gah! As a fellow glasses wearer I clicked the link hoping you'd cracked the peaked hat problem. I like to wear a ball cap to keep the worst of the rain off my glasses when I'm running. No room below the peak and above it casts a weird shadow in front.
I’ve worn it under the cap, not ideal but really to old solution apart from just wearing a beanie. I’ve started wearing contacts a lot more when I’m running as the glasses drive me insane as most of the time they either steam up or get covered in rain
I got one of these following watching your recommendation,as need a headtorch for night runs. Thought I got a bargain,£30 new. My first use this evening,taking dog out.Had on full power and was out for 15 minutes,it was down to half charge on getting home. Is this usual? Not looking good for three hour night runs😢👎
That doesn’t sound good! Should do 4hours on full brightness. Sounds suspiciously cheap though, where did you get it? It’s only out so very surprised to hear it’s half the RRP.
Report after one hour on full.Plugged it in and was on three lights/dots? So no idea what happened first time,but yeah,I appear to have got a bargain 😁☀️☀️👍
I love my biolite 330 and absolutely can see they’ve nailed all the things that I would change. Only other thing on my list is somehow making the band detachable. In the tropics my headtorch gets really sweaty and stinky. Otherwise I love it. Better than anything on the market. My first one recently died and I replaced it with another one. Wish the 425 was available in Australia. Only in EU right now. Nerdy question: how did you set the camera up to film the light demonstration? I’ve tried so many times to film with the head torch on and get nothing useful.
I’ve just bought one for winter road running. What an AMAZING bit of kit. Can’t recommend this enough! Doesn’t even feel like you’re wearing a head torch, and the lighting performance is excellent.
Light directly in the lens makes the video very hard to watch. Just a tip if you review headlamps often. Otherwise good video.
Noted!
Great review! This would be a great lamp, a red light in the back is important for running at night in town. Note: lumen is already a plural, so lumens is not right, 425 lumen is the max brightness.
Have you had a chance to try the Fenix HM65R-T for running? It's my ride-or-die headlamp, works really well for me. The Boa adjustment for me works great as well for different toques etc. Always a perfect fit, and WAY more than enough light.
I purchased one from LE Lighting Ever to use at night to check on my garden and bees and it's been doing an incredible job. They are very very useful!
Nocturnal bees?
@@StephenJReid lol No just regular honey bees. Through different climate they have different behavior like hanging out at the entrance and or ventilate the hive when it's hot out, I like to be out and check on them sometimes and see what they are doing!
a great review that answered my needs perfectly as i had the 330 but lost it.
That looks great Stephen need to get myself one. Got a set of openrun headphones after watching one of your videos and was a great job 👍
You know why I don’t like the review. Because now I want one. You covered all the bases with your demonstration and the headlamp is very reasonable priced. Just find your channel today Some far I am enjoying your channel and your humour. Vancouver Island Canada
Haha thanks! I had a boss from Vancouver, he was the most laid back guy ever. Glad you’re enjoying the videos 🙂
A really, really good review Stephen. You've certainly got me thinking about getting one of those.
Thanks Phil 🙂
I am sold!! Just ordered. Can't wait for mine.
Enjoy!
Nice headlight, will check it out for sure! I am however interested in that Jacket LOL - Hope you are warm out there!
😁 Thanks!
Was very cozy
Informative video! Is the battery replaceable? In some ultras it is mandatory to carry extra batteries.
No it’s a built in rechargeable battery so might not meet those requirements. Unless the race also allows for a backup light instead. That’s what I do anyway. Always carry a spare headlamp in case my main one breaks or I manage to loose it
@@StephenJReid thanks for the insights.
does it fit on a hardhat, and if it does, does it slide
Haven’t tried it I’m afraid
Thanks! Question: can you tilt the light down or up too? So you got it strapped to you head, and then if you've got traffic comming towards you, you don't want to blind them. The light I use I can move it up or down.. but it does not have a back light, and it also does not have this flood light. I'm biocurious.
Of yes of course, did I not show that 🙈 yeah it tilts up and down
@@StephenJReid A great, I thought I did see it on the light, but I wasn't completely sure. Thanks! I guess this makes me switch!
I should have mentioned it, kinda a key feature, my bad. This is the headtorch I've used for night runs in mountains too. They do have a bigger version with even better battery but this one has worked well for me.
Gah! As a fellow glasses wearer I clicked the link hoping you'd cracked the peaked hat problem.
I like to wear a ball cap to keep the worst of the rain off my glasses when I'm running.
No room below the peak and above it casts a weird shadow in front.
I’ve worn it under the cap, not ideal but really to old solution apart from just wearing a beanie.
I’ve started wearing contacts a lot more when I’m running as the glasses drive me insane as most of the time they either steam up or get covered in rain
Yeah I'll have to order up some more disposables. They are a bit of a faff but the best solution really.
Yeah and I have really bad dry eye so I’m on the ones that cost £2 per pair so definitely don’t wear them everyday!
Nice Sir
I got one of these following watching your recommendation,as need a headtorch for night runs.
Thought I got a bargain,£30 new.
My first use this evening,taking dog out.Had on full power and was out for 15 minutes,it was down to half charge on getting home.
Is this usual?
Not looking good for three hour night runs😢👎
That doesn’t sound good! Should do 4hours on full brightness. Sounds suspiciously cheap though, where did you get it? It’s only out so very surprised to hear it’s half the RRP.
@@StephenJReid iam currently testing it on full in house, will report back.
Report after one hour on full.Plugged it in and was on three lights/dots?
So no idea what happened first time,but yeah,I appear to have got a bargain 😁☀️☀️👍
@@alanrobinson2229 could be it just needed a couple of full charges to calibrate the battery. yeah that was a great deal!
Had the same issue, went into reserve mode after one hour! Did yours get better?
That’s the Biolite 425 purchased 👍
Enjoy!
Nice bit of kit
Tis indeed!
Looks a decent headtorch 👍
Yup!
I love my biolite 330 and absolutely can see they’ve nailed all the things that I would change. Only other thing on my list is somehow making the band detachable. In the tropics my headtorch gets really sweaty and stinky. Otherwise I love it. Better than anything on the market. My first one recently died and I replaced it with another one. Wish the 425 was available in Australia. Only in EU right now.
Nerdy question: how did you set the camera up to film the light demonstration? I’ve tried so many times to film with the head torch on and get nothing useful.
Thanks AJ.
I think I used manual exposure settings for the night shots. Take a bit of trial and error to get it looking right
Try @noxgear