Product Description

The Planet Bike BRT-5 Taillight features a reflector integrated into the lens and Scotchlite reflective side strips.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33220 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Planet Bike
• Model: 3018-1
• Released on: 2008-03-11

Features

• Soft-touch flash/constant/off switch
• Includes batteries, and seatpost and seatstay mounts
• Features a reflector integrated into the lens and Scotchlite reflective side strips
• Brighter LED's
• Over 100 hours run time

Customer Reviews

Awesome little light.
I installed a bike rack that had a mount and standard reflector, but since my neighborhood jaunts take through traffic at times, I wanted something a little more visible to cars.

This blinky has 5 bright LEDs, two lighting options (blink or steady), and an option to clip it to clothing or bags, mount it to your seatpost or attach it to a reflector mount on your rack. Both mounts are included in the package, along with batteries. At least one of these mounts, the Planet Bike Rear Rack Taillight Mount 3108, sells separately as well.

The bracket mounted to the rack easily, and the light clip snaps into a groove. I did take the precaution of hanging the light so that it must be slid up to remove it after bending back the catch, rather than slid down.

Its obscenely bright, but that's what I wanted, and doesn't hang too low in the rear bracket, but fits perfectly under the rear of my Bontrager trunk rack. When I start commuting, I think I'll get a second to mount on the seat post, and then unclip the light and attach it to the trunk-bag when it's on the rack.

Planet Bike taillight rack mount
Pretty good--it's nice to find a rack-mountable taillight these days. Nevertheless, this one has some issues. First, the mount places the light relatively low--sort of needs to, because that centers it vertically on the rack--but one result is that the tab that you press to release the light sticks down quite a ways. If your rack is mounted close to the tire, or if you have fenders, you may find that the tab touches the tire or fender, which can be a problem--mine just barely clears the fender. Also, the light seems heavy for the mount. On the plus side, you can interchange nearly all of the PB taillights, so this mount will nicely hold a SuperFlash as well as the light with which it ships.

Many Mounting Options!
I purchased this as an additional tail light for my commuting. I like the fact that it comes with a number of different mounting options. From seatpost, to seatstay, to rack to backpack. Plus like all other Planet Bike taillights, it easily fits into existing mounts for other PB taillights. So if you're upgrading from a 1 to a 3 or 5 blinky, you don't have to redo the mounting brackets. It does mount a bit low on a rack, but no lower than a seatpost mount. I've decided to mount this one higher, so it's cliped to my backpack for now. to fill in the middle ground between the helmet light and seatpost/seatstay lights. Super bright and good life on the batteries. I think I might eventually replace my 3 Blinkies with the 5.