Planet Bike Grateful Red Tail Light - Illuminate Your Ride for Added Safety

Cph: Struggled to find a good tail light for my rack mount. This one is perfect and high quality. Buying one more for my other bike today.

United States on Jul 28, 2023

John P. Custy: Planet Bike lights are the best cycling lights made. This replaced a light that was over ten years old, used 5-6 X a week May-Oct, 1,500+ miles, and stored outside. I have tried other brands and will only purchase Planet Bike accessories as theirs are the most durable and highest quality.

United States on Jul 22, 2023

Big Acin: Great light. The three modes are excellent for different road conditions.

United States on Jul 18, 2023

Joshua: Really happy with this unit. Good features. Really bright. Several mounting options. Quality build. Slightly on the larger size but still reasonable. Love that the batteries are replaceable. USB charging is for suckers.

Australia on Jun 04, 2023

Fuji touringFuji touring: Super bright battery operated rear back light. It comes with everything including the two types of attachments and the batteries. I attached it to my rear rack (fuji touring) and it fits perfectly! It's small but bright and it has built in reflectors which is good for road safety in general. I think its also the law in some provinces to have reflectors so thats a plus!

There are three modes of lighting (solid, fast blinking,slow blink). I mostly use the slow blinking as the fast blinking is too much!

The only down side is I can't screw it on to the bike rack which is good if you never leave your bike unattended. I suppose it makes it easier when you replace the batteries but I'd prefer not needing to think about it when I park.

Canada on Apr 21, 2023

Seth JohnsonSeth Johnson: I've used this light on my nightly rides for a couple years now. It's as bright as you could possibly need. Flashing mode sips juice from the batteries. I use lithium rechargeable AAA batteries and have only had to recharge them a couple of times over the course of 2+ years. I prefer AAA powered bike lights because rechargeable light systems only reveal they need to be recharged when you're about to depart on a ride or while you're riding. In both scenarios, you're without a light when you need one. With a AAA-based light, you just insert another pair of batteries and you're ready to go.

This Planet Bike light would get 5 stars from me except for a slight design flaw. Notice the picture here only features the back half of the unit. The rest of this unit (lens, circuit board, reflector shield, and batteries) released themselves on their own recognizance last night when I rode over some railroad tracks, I believe. I circled back later and couldn't find any of the debris trail. Anyway, if you look at this picture, you'll see that the on/off button is on the back of the case such that pressing on it exerts forward pressure towards the lens. I suspect that when I pressed this...

United States on Apr 03, 2023

Christian blanchard: Installation sur un velo,boucoup de choix de projection éclair beaucoup

Canada on Aug 21, 2022

D Mac: Sure, I partly bought this light because of its witty name, "Grateful Red" but I also bought it because it was big with a large reflective surface and had an adapter for my rack which is hard to find. It is a large, bright, and nice looking light. Well worth the money. Hopefully the batteries last & I remember to turn it off.

Canada on Sep 15, 2021

Frank Conway: I bought this light for two reasons: The brightness of the light is unparalleled and I wanted to install it on my TOPEAK bike rack.

The three modes (always on, blinking quickly and a slow fading strobe) are all brighter than you would think and the blinking mode really makes you highly visible on the road.

The mount for the rack fit perfectly and was installed within a few minutes. There was also an extra mount for the seat post to use when the rack isn't on the bike.

Highly recommended.

Canada on Nov 16, 2020

rags: Despite being a pretty dowdy looking red light, this tail light is bright as hell. Almost concerningly bright, in that I'm worried I'm distracting--rather than alerting,,motorists while riding in traffic. I actually mounted this in a way that slightly angles the light down so I'm not flat out blinding people behind me!

Far as mounting, I had no problem mounting this on the back of a common Topeak Explorer rack with the included mounts--this was much appreciated, as many bike lights are difficult to mount when racks are present. This was a big selling point for the light.

Far as modes, you get solid or a couple flashing modes. This light has one button and you have to cycle through the modes every time you want to turn it off from strobe flashing (always the setting I use for riding in traffic). This is a mild annoyance. The button itself is mounted on the rear of the light, which could be a problem for some types of bulky rack installs, but on my standard Topeak rack it isn't a problem and I can still hit the button just fine with gloves on in the winter.

I've put this through pouring rain several times and not had a problem, however note that when you pull...

United States on Sep 15, 2019