Thanks for tuning in this is The Sweet
Cyclist and today we're going to be
reviewing the Fabric Lumaray V2 front
light. Here we have Fabric's latest
Lumaray V2 front light. It's really
unique product from Fabric that
sandwiches between your Garmin mount and
the computer to provide daytime light.
Packing-wise it's really well done. As
with other Fabric products you have
really high contrast lettering on here and
the light itself is prominently
displayed. You can actually interact
with it and look at the LED design.
You have all the specs on here as well, so
everything you need to know about the
light is printed on here with
illustrations of how it actually mounts.
Let me go ahead and take it out of the
box and we'll go over some of the specs.
This is a $36 light and it is what I would
call a be-seen light which is what it says on
the packaging. It has up to 60 lumens
of visibility compared to the
30 lumens from the previous version. It
has a compatibility with both Garmin and
Wahoo computers although
with some Wahoo computers you need
an additional adapter from Wahoo to fit
the computer. They do recommend you still
use the tether and definitely don't use
incompatible devices even though they
might fit to avoid having it potentially
fall off. It has four different output modes
and up to 7 hours of runtime which
is pretty decent for most people's
riding. It is micro USB rechargeable as well.
Inside the box we have the basic
packaging, a little cardboard container
here and if I pop that open we should
find our USB cable.
We have the user manual, the
USB cable. This is a really nice USB
cable, just like the Lumasense
which we've also reviewed here it has
a woven design and is fairly short.
You have the light itself, a really unique form
factor and wraparound LED design. You
have the Wahoo adapter. Now let's take a
look at the weight of the Fabric
Lumaray V2. The whole unit comes
in at 44 grams. Now lets take a closer look
at the fit and finish of the Lumaray
V2 front light. It's a pretty unique
product from Fabric that offers a
daytime light solution without a bulk of
an additional light. Designed to sandwich
between a normal Garmin mount and then
provide a Garmin mount for a computer on
top. Now out of the box they do provide the
Wahoo adapter, you can see there's two
allen keys here you can take that out
and then you have these nice orientation
indicators here on the top and bottom.
These three little divots ensures you
place it correctly so you can swap it
out for Wahoo. Note you would need an
additional adapter for some Wahoo
computers so be aware of that as that a
additional adapter will push the
computer a little bit higher to
accommodate different designs. The entire
body of the Fabric light is plastic so
pretty light with the integrated
rechargeable USB light. On top you have
Fabric logo, so you can even run this by
itself. You have this
really nice cob LED design that wraps
all the way around. Now if I hold the
power button on for three seconds you'll
see when it's on you get really nice
side visibility even from high angles.
The marketing says 270 degree side
visibility which is really great. Now at
60 lumens this is fairly bright but not
bright enough to ride with obviously it
is definitely a 'be seen'
light versus 'to see' light.
So definitely ride with the additional
light if you're riding in the dark. On
the bottom you'll find the Garmin mount,
all plastic with some hidden screws and the
Fabric logo again. On the other side you
the USB port so you can actually charge
this while it's still on the bike so
that's still accessible. It is a
standard USB port here, it's not USB
Type-C unfortunately so you still
need a standard micro USB charging cable.
Overall it feels really nicely built and
the power button is really easy to
toggle and pretty grippy. There
are four different modes, it's a
three-second hold which feels a little
bit long and there's no mode memory
which is unfortunate. Single click to
cycle through and the long hold to turn
off. You can see when I turn it on
again, no mode memory means it all it
turn on to the flash mode. You can also
see the low battery status indicator
here there's no more granular battery
status but you can see once you're less
than 20 percent it will show a little
backlight here to indicate you need to
charge it. This is easy to miss though as
you really have to see it from a side
angle. Now let's take a look at the Lumaray
with a standard out front mount.
Here I have the Magicshine TTA mount
but you can use obviously any mount.
I'll mount it on here, you can hear
really nice click and feels really secure.
It has a really nice profile
here, it's fairly thin so
depending on what kind of computer have you
can you barely know it is there. Here
I have a older Garmin computer, if I
attach that you can see the Garmin
computer here it's a little bit thicker
than actual light. From the top view you
can't barely notice the
Fabric light itself. It has a nice form
factor that really blends in from the side
profile. You can see, nice and thin and
it add the extra visibility without
additional light. It also lets you do
multitasking with your own front mount.
Traditionally you have the top/bottom
top where you could put a
computer and a light. Now you can have a
daytime light computer, GoPro or another
light so it makes it really convenient to
keep your handlebars clear and
stack everything onto your own front
mount.
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Now let's take a look at the light
output from the Lumaray. What I really
liked about this is the wraparound LED
design and as you can see here in the
high steady mode it has really
good side visibility and more than
bright enough to be seen. Now there are
four different modes, there's high with
60 lumens and up to two hours of runtime.
There is also a low steady mode for seven
and a half hours of runtime as well as
two different flash modes. You have
disrupt which is an irregular flash for seven
hours and then a normal flash which is
just on/off for another seven hours
of runtime. Now let's go over the pros
and cons for the Lumaray V2. What I really
like about the light is the sleek
mounting design. It's really clever way
to add light as it sandwiches between
your Garmin mount and your computer. Also
the wraparound LED design really has
great side visibility, it's on up to 270
degrees. Also the fact that you get
daytime visibility without bulk, you
don't have to run an additional light or
find another mounting point. What
I don't like about the light is the lack
of mode memory, it always turns on with
flash mode regardless of which mode you
turn it off on. That can be annoying
if you don't want to use that mode each
time. You also need an additional adapter
for Wahoo Bolt and Roam computers which
runs another $15 so you do have to
account for that. Also it lacks a clear
battery status checker as with most USB
rechargeable lights, it only has a low
battery status warning which is really
easy to miss so especially with the
lower runtimes of the Lumaray you do
have to stay on top of charging it.
Taking everything to account I would
give the light an 8.6 out of
ten. I think it's a really innovative be
seen light that lets you multitask your
out-in-front mount even more than a
double-sided mount so you can get up to
three different gadgets on one mount.
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