Lights for dark country roads

[coupeboy]

Hard-Drive said:

Just wanted to resurrect this thread as it really is time to get some lights and get out on these dark evenings and do something useful.

I'm thinking weapon of choice will be my Inbred, riding a mixture of roads and bridleways locally. I want something that's good enough to see on totally unlit stuff, but that is not going to blind every driver on the way back. It might find it's way onto my roadie, and I could be tempted by some proper night time trail stuff at some point in the summer.

Is this still the one to go for at the price? Really don't want to spend any more.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.44459

Or should I hang on, because by the time it arrives from HK (possibly after crimbo) I could have picked up something UK based in the sales?

I bought one of these lights last year, I'm now going into my second winter on the road, mainly unlit lanes, never had a problem with them, plent of light, I've never run the battery down as I only do 2-2.5 hrs in the evenings in the winter.