Detour: confidence to go that extra mile
It’s time to bring the power of your cars headlight to your bike, free from wires and clumsy mounting.
An incredible industry leading cutoff beam pattern designed by automotive light experts prevents you from blinding oncoming pedestrians, fellow bikers and drivers. Providing you with a higher degree of safety, as well as a more enjoyable riding experience.
Optical Engineering
This is the game changer. Not only did we bring the automotive grade cutoff beam pattern to your handlebars, we took it a step further by precisely controlling how much light leaves the light and hits the ground from the front of your tire all the way up to where you are looking. When you read "it's like riding in daylight" this is why.
Not only are we the only USA-based manufacture of cutoff (also referred to as STVzO) beam pattern bike lights, we also made sure the light has unreal width to light up the ditches and keep the spooky things away.
Rock Solid Mounting
A good light isn’t so good if
it’s bouncing up and down on the bars all the time. That’s why we made a bolt-on clamp mount for Detour so it’s solidly locked to the bar, With a simple shim it adapts from 35mm to 31.8mm handlebars and the beam won’t shake around like lights with rubber strap mounts do.
We adapted an established
camera tripod mount concept then miniaturized it for slick snap-in installation with a ramped-cam that always takes up the slack as it wears, so you never have a rattly interface, and an easy one-handed quick-release process to pop the Detour off post-ride and toss in your pocket.
Simple User Interface
Few people read instruction manuals, even fewer want to, we keep our lights dead simple so that you don’t need an advanced degree to remember some complicated sequence of button presses get to the mode you want.
Detour’s soft-touch overmolded top shell has a single, large button right in the middle that’s easy to feel through a thick winter glove in the dark, with four green indicators to clearly convey mode and battery status without the need for a decoder.
Four simple modes cover the majority of use cases from set-it-and-forget-it long training rides to solid output for that quick commute home – Adaptive / High / Medium / Low – and no SOS or seizure inducing strobes stuck in between.
Several pulse and strobe modes are available from off. Super easy to remember!
Electrifying design
We like to keep our lights simple on the outside for the user, but that doesn’t mean we’re skimping on the guts inside. The constant-current driver maintains rock solid regulation through the Cree XD16 LEDs over the entire voltage range of the genuine Samsung 21700 cell with a unique battery monitoring algorithm to give you accurate feedback without interruption.
Complete with fast QC 3.0 USB-C charging and Pass-Thru capability to boot, we engineer the electronics to maximize efficiency and runtime while minimizing charge times, all without any proprietary connectors that could leave you stranded.
Thermal Engineering
When you pick up this light you might be suprised to not feel any metal. Plastic?! Must be something we used to be cheap isn't it? Far from it.
This material we use is an incredibly cool (ha) engineered resin that is not only very durable, but also conducts heat. This has been a very challenging engineering development project to bring to market, being one of the first to bring this thermally conductive plastic to bike lights.
We made sure that it can handle the intense heat of the LED's through lots of engineering simulation, then prototypes and finally lots of small tweaks to dial things in. The result is a lightweight, durable, and thermally balanced light housing.
Industry-Best Customer Support
Industry-Best Customer Support
3 year warranty + Lifetime customer service support backed by a real person. (yes, that's Tom)
