Best Rear Bike Lights of 2024

In this video, we review five of the best rear bike lights of 2024, perfect for enhancing your visibility and safety on the road. From budget-friendly options to high-end picks, these lights offer powerful brightness, long battery life, and sleek designs to keep you safe during your rides.
Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:13 Exposure Boost R Reakt
01:27 Lezyne Strip Drive Pro 400+
02:47 Cateye Viz450
04:09 NiteRider Bullet 200
05:33 See.Sense Icon 3
07:13 Which Rear Light To Buy

Best Bike Lights 2024 | Rated & Reviewed

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[bikeradar]

What's your all-time favourite rear light?

[flo]

still a huge fan of the garmin varia. never ever regretted the purchase

[RobertAllan-dsqc]

Bontrager Flare R doesn't get a a standard here in Spain! They're everywhere.

[jonathanrhodes]

I have a set of exposure flash/flare. Whilst they were not cheap, I am very impressed with the performance, the build quality, and the waterproofing. The rear light survived an accidental trip through the washing machine.

The day flash mode is very effective, it was seeing another rider's light from 1/2 mile away in bright sun in the Peak District that made me consider getting it.


Tip: whilst the mounting bracket does not look very secure, I have not lost it on XC mtb or rough gravel, and after market, bolt on brackets are available.

[drill_fiend]

Unless we are talking about Varia or some radar lights none of these lights are any functionally different than cheap AliExpress ones.

[maniac]

Germany with the StVZO: All of the listed rear lights are strictly forbidden, because they have a blinking mode, even when you use a non blinking mode.

[Cynyr]

Will any of these clip to the end of a saddle bag or rack trunk bag? And will they stay there when hopping up and down curbs and rattling over bumpy roads or speed bumps? When commuting none of my seat post is visible from the rear.

[andrewdoig]

You didn't consider a durability test? I've had so many Cateye lights fail. A weather seal test would be interesting?

[blahblah]

I love that they don't include a cable. The majority of people have them and the few people who dont can buy one pretty cheap. It saves wasting cables and reduces cost.

[AnderGdeT]

Decathlon's Elops 900 is a banger for the price (don't cheap out on the Elops 100, the 900 is worth it). Cheap, powerful, charges with an included microUSB, comes with a ton of different attachment options...

[nl]

There is one bike company that spent $$$ on RnD for rider visibility (lights, clothing etc), and that's Trek / Bontrager (as far as I know).
Their bike lights are miles ahead of anything else I've used - and that's coming from a specialized fanboy.
Their visibility (day & night), rechargeability, ease of use and longevity (mine have yet to fail at 8 years of daily use) are best in class.
To omit them from this review is negligent.

[NCTlachaineduvelo]

Bontrager Ion RT and Garmin Varia are the best !!

[npdf]

Exposure for me excellent had mine years 😊 Pete 🚴🏻👍

[ernestpaul]

I always run one blinking light and one static. I love the blinking pattern on my light and motion vya and for the static light I love the massive size of the knog big cobber.

[EMTBonsai]

Lezyne just brought new versions out with AI Alert, new video went up just today on lezyne channel

[gaza]

I’ve owned a number of see sense lights and they all gone wrong within less that a year all due to water ingress customer service is great but as any other Facebook product they lack reliability .

Exspoure flare is the best light I’ve ever owned but the metal gets worn down by the bracket through the act of twisting the release the light from the plastic. If it’s muddy dip the back only in water first.

[damienakatubbyable]

I've got an Olight seeme that I bought waiting for the brighter rear olights to come back into stock but forgot about it til now. Can't rate it yet but that was less than £20 so these seem quite expensive to me. My Sofirn front bike light was exceptionally good value for money so hoping they do a rear light at some point too.

[BTcycle]

Flock light is something to look into. It shines the light on the cyclist legs.

[Countrystock]

Varia for road, Exposure trace r for gravel

[frankb.]

Where is the best one?
(Lupine Rotlich max)