There’s a tendency in cycling tech to throw the bathroom sink at features, making products ever more complex and turning both the initial setup and pre-ride experience into chores. You’d have a fine experience doing so-it’s a bright, effective light designed for safety. That is to say, you could attach it to the back of your bike, hit the power button, and ride like any other light while benefiting from its smart features. It’s a testament to See.Sense’s hard work that the Icon2 is only as complex as you want it to be. The Icon 2 has several flashing pattern options as well as a steady “on” setting. This also allows for irregular flashing patterns with varying degrees of focus and brightness, making you much more visible to cars. (And if you want to get really deep into See.Sense lore, the CREE & matrix pairing is a combination of the technologies in the company’s original Icon and Ace lights.) That’s also the reason why it can be visible from 3km away while also providing a 270-degree viewing angle for side visibility.
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Without going down a technical rabbit hole, that means a rich, diffuse light coverage punctuated by an extremely focused, bright light that’ll make it difficult for drivers approaching from the rear to miss you. That’s because the Icon 2 combines an LED matrix with a CREE LED. In terms of raw numbers, that maybe sounds a little modest in an industry that often boasts into the thousands in its larger units, but the Icon 2 does a lot with what it’s got. The rear light, tested, has 300 lumens and the front has 400. The headline is that it’s very, very bright despite its small package.
We’ll return to the genius stuff in more detail, but first let’s take a quick look at the Icon 2’s performance as a light. With that in mind, it’s perhaps better to think of the Icon2 as a light that does what all bike lights should be doing in 2020, rather than as the leader in the smaller category of smart lights that could otherwise feel complex or unnecessary. And you’ll never actually have to think about them. What the Icon2 offers is a quality bike light that also packs in some truly innovative tricks designed for improving your safety. Here’s a run-through of the key features. (Plus, in less exciting but very useful news, they also react to movement, turning on when you move and off when you’ve been stopped for three minutes.) And they even do smart stuff like act as a bike theft monitor and report road surface conditions to See.Sense’s central database. They’ll flash brighter and faster at junctions and roundabouts. That’s an umbrella term for a whole bunch of smart features that react to your cycling environment to keep you safer.
The Icon2 is what See.Sense describes as Reactive. Improving cyclist safety is their mission statement, and while their lights do the same thing as their rivals in some ways-that is to say that the Icon2 is very bright-they’re making lights that do much more than just being small, light, and very bright. Well, actually staying alive is pretty much the top-level goal of everything… but bike lights specifically are designed for ensuring you’re visible to third-parties in cars rather than illuminating the path ahead.īike light manufacturers haven’t necessarily lost sight of this goal, but it does seem like they’ve fixated on one part of the strategy for achieving it rather than considering how their technology might enable road danger reduction in new ways.Įnter See.Sense. Keeping you alive is the top-level goal of all bike lights. It’s all about enhancing your safety in an intelligent but convenient way. See.Sense’s Icon 2 is a super bright bike light that promises reactive safety features like brake lights, roundabout awareness, and even road surface reporting.
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