Hey everyone, welcome!
I don't know about you folks but we absolutely love night riding and we do it every opportunity we have.
And if initially we started with Mickey Mouse lights like the ones you see over here
in the last couple of years we got to appreciate a good quality high output front light for our bikes.
One of those is this, the Monteer 12000, this is 12,000 lumens, a light that was released by Magicshine not too long ago,
I have one with me today and why don't we take a closer look and see how that works for mountain biking and not only.
It was last year when I tried this 3,000 lumen light from them, the MJ-902s, and I was impressed with the quality
but in comparison I would say that this 12,000 is almost in a different league.
But why don't we take a look and see what you get in the box first of all.
And right here on the box you're going to see pretty much the shape of this huge MONTEER 12000
and here on the side you're going to see that this is covered by a 2 year warranty from them.
This is probably a serial number and then on the back, yeah this is a pretty big box,
you're going to see that this is made in China, you're going to see their support hotline and different ways to get in contact with them,
you're going to see the specifications of the light from light output beam distance and finally the water resistance of this light.
12,000 lumens, to five different lenss, to operation with one button, easy to read battery indicator
customized lighting settings, rechargeable battery and then IPX6 - waterproof.
You're going to see right away the tiny bluetooth remote which is right here
and this is the velcro strap used to put it on the bar.
This is the headlight and yes, this is fairly big as you can see here
it comes with this part of the cable attached,
in here you have the accessories, actually these are some plastic bands we'll see what that is for
you have a nice (tiny) instructions manual that I highly recommend you take a look at because it's quite a bit of stuff in it.
This is the warranty registration little booklet and underneath you're going to get even more cables
and these are probably the straps, straps for the big mama battery that has its own box
and you're going to see that this is a lithium-ion battery, the charging time which is 3 hours,
and you see the different input / output details clearly stated.
Opening this last box, okay here's more straps these are the rubberized ones that I assume we are going to use to install this on the bike.
You have...this is a USB-C to USB-C cable.
As you press on the Power button you see the indicator here.
Down at the bottom of the battery more details again but we read that on the box already,
this bottom is rubberized so it will grip on your frame
and here at the end this is where you connect the actual light cable which is this one here
and on this other side we're going to have... is this just a charging port Yep
Interestingly if this Magicshine MJ-902s that I've used for a while,
on the power bank you have all these connectors including an USB output USB input for charging and yes you also have a charge indicator.
On the new Monteer 12000 battery pack, this same USB port can be used for charging the battery
and for powering up or charging your phone or any other accessory that might need a little bit more battery juice.
And because I I know some of you guys might care about weight here goes 1241 grams, that is pretty much for the head unit
then you have the two straps, you're going to need this cable for sure
and finally just the battery by itself is 901 grams so 2 lb pretty much.
As opposed to that, my old Magicshine MJ-902s (3000 lumens) comes up to 402 grams and again and this has an external battery pack.
Back to our light, here's the little remote,
honestly I don't think by using this velcro little strap this is going to be secure on my bars and I don't think I'm going to use it like that at all.
However you have to remember that this light can be used or configured with your phone you have this QR code on the installation manual
you just point, download the app and you can use it it to configure your light.
Now going back to the light yes this is pretty big
yes this is covered with this foil and they say Open... I am sure they mean remove this
and here it goes, the 5 LED lights they're talking about it looks pretty impressive to be honest with you
you can see that big mama LED floodlight right there in the back and this is a convex surface, the lens,
and then you have the 4 spotlights on the sides,
this is solid aluminum and this says don't block any air vents,
they're talking about air vents here and here at the back, I assume at the max power this needs some meaningful cooling.
Here at the back you see that same Power button that you can use to change the status of the light
and you can see the battery indicator as well.
Can see the big bracket, I'm going to measure it in a second, and here on a side
this is...this seems to be a Torx screw on one side and then here you have the little tiny lever.
I was wrong, this is not a Torx this is a Hex I believe it's 3 mm and this is what you would use to tighten it up.
Same thing here with the two bar clamps, this is a two-piece bar clamp and also in this tiny bag you have the different rubber bands
that would allow you to install these clamps on both 31.8 and 35 mm bars depending on what you have.
Now if you're wondering what's the space here in between the two arms, that is 72 mm and this space should cover pretty much even the most aggressive stems
usually Enduro stubby stems are pretty wide.
On the bike, the installation of of this head unit is actually fairly simple,
remember you got to grab one of those rubber or plasticky inserts
then you're going to have the two bolts that keep the two part clamped together.
Center it around your stem and then yeah, this is how it goes,
so you have rubber you have the brackets and you have the bolt, use a 3 mm Allen/ Hex key just to tighten up that bracket.
Man, this makes my bike look like an e-Bike, it's pretty cool!
Anyway, if you're recognizing this Diamondback yeah, this is the good old cheap CRIMSON hardtail that I reviewed not too long ago
with a few updates, you're going to see a video about that on my channe.
You can connect that head unit to the battery directly without that extender cable
however you got to insert these straps first, you see that rubberized edge here so what you're going to do put it through one of the side holes
and there's a piece of metal right here so it's going to stop right at the end
and I'm going to have to install this pretty much like that.
These ends are rather long but that's probably because the top tube of this bike is super super skinny
but otherwise this seems solid.
The battery connector of that head unit is keyed so if we reach in here, plug it in, you're going to see the light coming up.
I guess is going through a boot up process and yes if you press on the battery you see that it's full.
Right back to their app and if I say Add New devices you can see...boom it has already seen the new light.
Back to the light, if I hold on the Power button I think for 3 seconds and here we go, magic!
It starts with a low setting, this is only 10% of the light output and as I change that
you're going to see how that light becomes more and more powerful
so this is how easy it is to actually change the setting from the app.
Here at the bottom you also have the different modes, you can see that normal light,
this is what's called SOS so just flashing slowly
then you have that's like a strobe light
and then, this last one is, I don't know what that is supposed to be, it's just a different type of flashing .
Again, go back to the normal operation and time to take it to the trails!
Again this is the lowest setting on all five LEDs
look at the next one up
next one up,
6,000 12,000 lumens
With this setting the runtime is 2.5 hours.
12,000 it's pretty pretty nuts
this is... it feels too much, I don't need anything close to this much light on the trails.
This is the Echo mode, if you don't go too fast it's probably all you need.
Let me double tap here so we can see the other, the floodlight only,
so this is the street only, road riding, very controlled beam
you can see it being controlled pretty much every possible way
and then up down you can control even more with the tilt setting.
Flip back to Mountain biking... here we go.
Just awesome, look at this this, is the 360 meters that this light can go to
I guess maximum setting...so that 12000 that would be this
Definitely have enough light for whatever you might need, any type of riding you might do this is plenty
And yes I have more footage from my ride but GoPro at night sucks really bad, even my iPhone is better
so I don't want to bother you with it but you got the idea.
You have the two modes that you can use, one is the floodlight the one light in the middle that is very controlled.
Double press on that Power button and you switch to all 5 lights on,
that would be the mountain biking, what I called the mountain biking light,
and then you have settings for Echo mode, low, medium, high.
If you want to use the 12,000 lumens that is 2.5 hours out of the the 10,000 mAh battery.
What would be the big pros of a light like this?
Number 1 - I really really loved the two bracket or the wide bracket installation on the handlebar, it is very secure
I like the light spread, I like it how wide it is,
if you were to go on the road that flood mode can be very beneficial, I like the runtime
and I like that you get pretty much everything you need to install this,
you even get a cable extender, the two extra straps that were in the box apparently are for the helmet, but that head unit is too heavy
I would never put that on my helmet if it was me.
What are the downsides of a light like this? Well number 1 would be...
this is a 2 lb battery so it got to.. you know, account for it.
It was pretty safe and secure on my bike but I don't know if you go super rowdy or crazy it might flop around a little bit.
The App, some of the translation is kind of weird, it's not that intuitive,
And the price - this is a pretty pricey unit, it's over $500, but Magicshine always has some sort of discount, so here we go.
So what do you guys think? Do you use a big mama light like this for your night rides?
Do you go for the small, I don't know, 600-800-1500 lumen ones?
Would you go for something like this? Would you be interested in a discount code? I have one in the description of the video
make sure you take advantage of that,
let me know what you think about the light, about the riding, let me know if you have any questions
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don't forget to like it and until next time I'll see you guys on the trails
why not during a night ride.
See you folks, cheers!