Every scooter owned by ScootHead staff members is equipped with headlights. There are many brands and models to chooose from, but we've unanimously gone with CatEye's HL-500II headlight . This fact that the HL-500II lights use AA batteries is particularly attractive to me because I keep a bunch of NiMH rechargeable batteries on hand that I can use in them. Once again, on my Xootr Street I'm running two HL-500II headlights, with one pointed more downward to illuminate the ground immediately in front of me, and one facing straight on to illuminate the street ahead, and to make it easy for automobiles to see me. If you can afford two, I would highly recommend going this route.
Headlights provide only half of the lighting required for nighttime scooting.
It is also important to illuminate your backside. I have also chosen CatEye for this application. Of the many tallights CatEye makes, I chose the TL-LD500 . This means that if your batteries die, the TL-LD500 will be as effective a reflector as the ones you find on the backs of bicycles. It runs on two AAA batteries, and will run for 100 hours in its blinking mode, and 50 hours in its constant-on mode.