Bonus: the Mako light has a flashing mode that the Minewt lacks, allowing a highly noticeable "police car" effect from the front as well, if you are riding somewhere with enough ambient light and you want yourself to be more visible. It even works during daylight hours. To top off this review and make it more quantitative, I took the lights down to the Money Mustache Lighting Laboratory to measure the light output and take a few photos of light output for comparison. Here's what I came up with: Light Name Brightness @Beam Center (Lux reflected from white wall @12 feet) What it Looks Like Typical LED camping headlamp 3 Mako 3.0 Bike Light 29 Minewt on Low Mode 35 Minewt: Medium Mode 68 Minewt: High Mode 136 Pictures were taken with an SLR camera with fixed aperature/shutter settings, so the camera would not automatically adjust to the different light levels to make them all look the same. Overall, we are all pleased with our new lights and they are already in heavy use. The handy thing about these lights is that they all use the same handlebar mounting bracket. So the super-bright light can be fitted to any of our three bikes as night-time errands require. And when all lights are not all needed, Junior 'stash has taken to attaching BOTH of the Mako3.0 lights to his own handlebars and setting them to flash mode, for maxiumum Police Car mode. That's fine with me, since a visible kid is