Alex is also a regular on the BikeRadar YouTube channel and BikeRadar podcast. Alex is also a dedicated eMTB rider, and still dabbles in racing of a sort, doing his best to top the Strava leaderboard on the steepest, gnarliest and twistiest trails the Tweed Valley has to offer – just for fun, of course. He’s one of BikeRadar’s lead testers and knows how to push bikes and products to the limit, searching out the equipment that represents the best value for money. Since working for MBUK, Alex’s focus has moved to bike tech. Alex then moved back to the UK and put his vast knowledge of mountain biking to good use by landing a job working for MBUK magazine as features editor. Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. While there’s plenty of power up to the peripheral cut-off points, the transition from light to dark here is quite sudden.Īlex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. Introduce tight switchbacks, however, and the beam’s spread limits speed and confidence. The light is thrown down the trail well and it makes confidently hitting higher speeds easy because you can spot lines well ahead of getting to them. Cash Clock Time is Money So get it right - with our new Cash Clock Interval Timer Make your own routines, and save them Metronome Keep the beat with our easy to use Metronome Stay On Top App Download a Stopwatch and Countdown timer that stays on top of all open windows. It’s powerful enough for most black-graded trail centre trails even when used without a secondary light. The Countdown 1600 provides an impressive amount of power in its Blitz mode, feeling much brighter than its claimed 1,600-lumen output. The clamp’s relatively narrow width (11mm) keeps plenty of space free on the bar for other accessories.

The sprung pin provides enough force to keep the light in place and makes it quick and easy to remove. The interface between the light and the mount is good. Equally, if more of the mounting hardware was made from metal, and the bolt head’s tabs were bigger, more tension could be fed into the clamp to help maintain stability. If the rail-to-clamp interface had slots or teeth, this would be less of an issue. Thanks to the clamp head’s plastic design and small lever tabs, tuning in enough tension to stop the mounting rail from twisting or moving is tricky. The mount’s design relies on the clamping bolt’s tension to simultaneously tighten the handlebar clamp and the light’s mounting rails together. The rubberised shims tune fit for different diameters, and the tool-free clamp speeds up installation and removal times. Ian Linton / Our MediaĪttaching the Countdown 1600 mountain bike light to a handlebar is easy.

The mount is compatible with 31.8mm and 35mm bars.

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