I have ridden with a tail light for years, but this is a bit nicer. It's not what I would call a critical piece of equipment, but it's nice to know when a car is coming up - particularly when riding double file with a friend, or when doing intervals and there isn't much or any shoulder. I turned off the sound alert cause it's annoying. The visual on the side of my wahoo is sufficient. I like that I can see multiple cars approaching. The sale price as Garmin has brought in a new version made it more compelling. The old micro USB isn't great, but it's not a dealbreaker either. I'm not seeing any false positives or false negatives so far. If a car slows down to match your speed before passing, that's the only time where you might not see them registered.
The lights themselves are great, nice and bright with different settings/blink patterns to match the conditions! The main problem is the strap for the rear light, it's flimsy and does not have one side permanently fixed to the body of the light. Within a week of buying two light sets, one rear strap broke and the other was lost while off the bike being charged. Lezyne sells replacement straps for ~$5, including different lengths, so I bought multiple.
These have been around for awhile so no new developments, but dang do they work great. As a cyclist for more than one decade, my ear radar detectors work damn good. This device works better. Often times in cycling, value gets a bit lost, but this honestly feels like a good value for money. Being able to see how many cars are behind me and how fast they are coming is confidence inspiring and helpful. I love that it actively flashes when it detects them as well. I hear them adjust behind me as soon as they see it. It's not expensive and it works flawlessly, hard to find a fault. Except one.......Garmin your micro usb port is woefully out of date and irritating. Just stop it. Give me USBC. 100% of micro usb devices in my house are Garmin. No excuses.
I keep losing lights that have all kinds of creative attach methods at to the bike. I was looking for a rechargeable, bright USB-C chargee light that. Thats exactly what it is. So the light is attached to the rubber strap and cannot fall off. You need to remove the light with the rubber strap to charge it. Not as nice as having it clip in but really nice that it can't fall off.
Only complaint is that the rubber strap could be a bit longer. My gravel bike has a mountain bike width seat post and the strap is a bit tight on that.
