Exposure Lights

Exposure Lights have come a long way since they first introduced their cable-free LED light onto the world, and with the release of its latest products with updates aplenty and several new developments, it really shows.

First up is the MaXx-D (revealed recently), which packs four Seoul LED emitters into a unit little bigger or heavier than the sister Enduro, but with 960 Lumens at the press of a button you’re sure to be able to spot every single root and rock on the trail. Weight with the neat QR bracket is 320g, and burn times follow the same format as previous lights so you get 3hrs on MaXx mode, dropping to 10hrs on Ride and 24hrs on Low. Price is £325.

The next significant development is ‘Smart Port Technology’ or SPT for short. With some ingenious tinkering with the internal circuits, they’ve managed to turn the charge port into a way of powering other devices from the internal battery. This promises much flexibility, and Exposure have revealed three products that make use of this function.

The Remote Switch is diminutive in size and once Velcro’ed to the handlebar gives easier control over the light. Next are two rear lights of differing sizes, the bigger RedEye Rear Light takes a 240 Lumen LED and can easily be affixed to seatpost, frame or helmet, and the RedEye Micro Rear Light, adds rear visibility to a helmet mounted Joystick.

All lights in the Exposure Lights range have been upgraded with SPT and dubbed MaXx 2, and prices across the range have dropped. It should be pointed out that this tinkering with the internal circuit boards does mean SPT isn’t backwards compatible with earlier MaXx lights.

The MaXx-D lights up the trail with 960 Lumens

Remote Switch plugs into the Smart Port and Velcro’s to the handlebar

This is the RedEye Rear Light, a 240 Lumen LED powered off your front light

The smaller RedEye Micro Rear Light plugs into a Joystick MaXx 2

A closer look at the RedEye Rear Light

You can have one of these only if you’re very, very special

Shimano

Shimano is now doing a 29″ version of its XT wheelset. Oh joy…

The recently introduced SLX groupset gets this seriously cool looking bashguard-wielding version

But the transparent and honeycomb bashguard on the Saint cranks is possibly cooler looking

A departure from Shimano’s traditional color choices

MacMahone

MacMahone may be little known at the moment, but with its frenzy of new product launches, we’re certain that’ll change

This is the Sword, the company’s Scandium tubed hardtail. Nice graphics

This full-susser also caught our attention

And how could it not, with details and finish like this

This was our first look at the carbon frame it produces built up