One23 Intense Bright 1 and Super Bright 0.5 light set

The One23 Intense Bright 1 and Super Bright 0.5 front and rear lights combination saves you a few quid over buying them separately. Your money gets you a pairing of a decent front beam for the price and a rear with a combined constant/flash mode that really gets noticed.

The One23 Intense Bright 1 front light has a strong beam for a light at this price, both seem weather resistant and the run times are fairly good for AAA battery lights. They sell separately for £28.99 and £12.99 so you save about enough to get an extra battery or two by buying them together.

Using good quality batteries you could theoretically get as much as 100 hours use from the rear light if you run it on flash mode. The front light gave us just over six hours on a sensible mix of full beam and half beam using the four HW Alkaline AAA batteries that came with it. Up to 24 hours is claimed, presumably on flashing.

Battery life obviously depends on the quality of batteries you buy though and running cost is the downside of AAA battery lights compared to USB charged lights. But if you run out of light on a long ride home, you can nip into any garage and buy new batteries, or carry spares in your saddlebag.

Front

The 1 Watt single white LED front light has a collimator lens to try and keep the beam tight: the reality is that other factors interfere with the idea of an infinite beam but what is does mean is that the Intense Bright 1 light has a beam that's far better to see with on dark roads than the beams on many other lights at £29. That said, it's still not as focused as many slightly more costly lights with more lumen strength.

It has an easy to use click switch on the top and three (high, low and flashing) settings. The low beam is good enough for regular urban use; the high beam is almost, but not quite, enough for dark roads with rough surfaces.

The slide-in handlebar mount can be easily spaced for wide or narrow bars but it's not hinged, so fitting and removing the mount means springing the plastic loop apart. While it seems tough enough, we've had a few clamps like this in the past that have weakened and eventually broken after constant mounting and removing. On the plus side, we do like the big (glove friendly) tightening wheel.

The lens is equipped with small side windows that emit some 'be seen by' light to the side but there's no swivel potential on the clamp.

Weather proofing seems good and battery replacement is easy: you simply click-twist the front of the light off and the four batteries sit in a well-sealed case inside the main light body.

Rear

The Super Bright 0.5 Watt rear light is excellent. It has three LEDs that can be set to constant, flashing or two flashing and one constant.

We had several riders asking us about the combined constant/flash mode as it's so effective from a distance; claimed visibility is up to 1000 metres.

Like most lights of this type it comes with a belt clip that doubles up as a slide-in mount that fastens on to your seat post, in this case with an easy to fit and remove strap that wraps around the post.

So far we've used the mixed constant/flashing mode for about 20 hours, but with a claimed run time of 100 hours you're not going to be worrying overly about the cost of replacing the two AAA batteries.

Conclusion

A good value lightset, with the two also available separately. We have some misgivings about the bracket on the front light but we particularly like the combined constant/flash mode on the rear light. The front has a strong beam for a light at this price, both seem weather resistant and run time is fairly good for AAA battery lights.

Verdict

Good value lights, with a strong front beam for the price and very visible rear combined flash/constant mode.

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