Barry Beams Bike Light Meets Funding Via Kickstarter, Replicates Car Headlight

“Quoted power is 1400+ lumens”

“The brightest setting gets you about an hour at 1200 lumens”

Which is it?

“Quoted power is 1400 + lumens”

Same as the (impressive) L+M Secca 1400 – if claimed lumens figure is accurate.

Agreed about keeping the flashing mode….. it’s what you need for night time urban survival, BUT, six different levels? Is that just because they can?

I’m starting to wonder if there’s even anything on Kickstarter other than bike lights 😉

I agree with Nick–for those of you interested in finding out more about Mr. Barry, there’s a thread on CandlePowerForums under the Transportation Lighting/Bicycle section (down near the bottom) where the man himself joins in on the discussion to go on an offensive against people wanting clarification about issues they see in his design and beam profile, accusing them of “slandering” his patented work. Also contains informative discussion on asymmetrical beam lights.

Hey everyone, I invite you to take a look at my website, http://www.barrybeams.com , to see the current state of progress.

I also invite Bike Rumor to test and review my retail product that Barry Beams is now going to market with.

Funny to read Nick the know it all, a few years after his flaming. Raw lumen count is not a measure of a directional light, or every light would be the same. Field lumens and base lumens are better for directional lighting, and an integrating tube give more representative measurements than the integrating spheres like MTBR.com uses at Light and Motion’s labs.
Raw lumen counts are properly suited for uniform lighting like indoor light bulbs.

Though he could ask and get any lighting they want from any light maker in the world, the best distance racer in the world and holder of the world’s 24 hour record, Christoph Strasser made a special request to use my lights for RAAM this year, and for that to be exclusive without me sponsoring any other solo RAAM racer.

Candlepower forums may have self appointed supposed experts. None of their speculations match the optics that were granted a patent in 2014.
Currently also am in discussions with a major auto LED lighting control systems maker.

I think Editz had it right, at my current state of progress, now going to market full scale with a finally finished retail boxed product, “this is a wakeup call to the rest of the bike light industry for better optics.”
With my optics leading the way in this direction, other light makers can license from me for far lower cost then they could try to develop their own optics that wouldn’t infringe on my patent.

Most recently, NASA tested off the shelf Barry Beams, and found 40% better down range object recognition than other optics they’ve tested. Resulting from that testing, NASA wants to move forward with using Barry Beams lighting for the Lunar Prospector Rover that will be searching for water on the Dark Side of the Moon where light hasn’t shined in three billion years.
To me, NASA’s test results are a better statement of my beam’s superiority than commercially influenced websites and the wildly ego motivated factually weak comments found on internet forums, who are jealous of others instead of trying to to shoot for the moon and succeed, like I’m doing.