Calling on all you 24-hour racers.  You don't want to miss out on Epic Rides'  "24 hours in the Old Pueblo" race in the Sonoran Desert outside Tuscon, Arizona February 13-14!    
http://www.epicrides.com/events.htm

Light & Motion will be there to support you with a full line of high-performance rental lights, a fully staffed charging station, and good spirits to cheer you on through the night!

24-hour racing is a blast. Make sure you are racing with the brightest and most reliable equipment available. To keep you rolling at night we are offering a specially priced race bundle. You'll get the Seca 700 Race for the handlebars, and the Stella 200L for your helmet - 2 light heads, 2 batteries, and 1 charger! (Save $100).  See our "specials" for details.

If you would like to reserve rental lights for the race please contact us at: hhall@lightandmotion.com.  

See you in the Old Pueblo!

Happy New Year to all of our Light & Motion users!

Just a friendly reminder for those of you that received a great new Light & Motion light from Santa or from that special person in your life. Now is the time to register it. 
Registering it helps store the date of your purchase and allows us to follow the history of your light by keeping needed warranty information available.  Just go the registration tab on this site.

If you received a light for the Holiday and need to download the manual please visit our support page where you can download or print the approapriate manual.  Or, if you just have a few questions about your light we would be happy to answers those just go to "contact us" and shoot us an e-mail.

So, Happy New Year and we hope you will be back in 2010 to see what's new!

Light & Motion Team

Light and Motion receives 2009 WRAP award:

November 17th 2009, Monterey, CA— Light & Motion is pleased to announce it has received the 2009 WRAP – Waste Reduction Awards Program from the State of California.

“We are thrilled to be recognized for our work to reduce our waste, streamline our business and contribute in a meaningful and measurable way to treading a little more lightly each year while improving our products, workplace and community” said Daniel Emerson, CEO for Light & Motion.

The WRAP Award

The WRAP award is a California Statewide program that recognizes businesses who demonstrate annual reductions in their waste stream. The Award requires a rigorous tracking of incoming and outgoing materials, energy, and waste along with documentation of improvements and efficiency gains across all the material and energy streams. More information can be found at http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/WRAP/

About our company:

In 1989, Light & Motion founders developed the first high power portable underwater lighting systems for video in Monterey, California. These dive enthusiasts built a company focused on world-class sport-specific products. Today Light and Motion continues to pioneer best in class video systems and video lighting for enthusiasts.

Light & Motion has been recognized for its leadership in reducing waste and emissions by recycling and utilizing alternative transportation. Light and Motion designs, tests and manufactures a majority of it products right here in California. We encourage consumers to return spent batteries for safe recycling. The company has been recognized by the US Congress, California State Assembly and AMBAG for outstanding and invaluable service to the community, and has received the WRAP and Green business awards for their conservation efforts, as well as receiving the 2008 California Small Business of the Year.

As we power through fall and into winter, my time on the bike has significantly reduced. I used to ride anywhere from 45 to 80 miles a week and this past Saturday was the first time I was on the bike in the last two months. One of the reasons my group of friends don’t ride anymore is that after work it’s simply too dark. There are long stretches on our route that are in complete darkness and that’s never a safe situation.

Light & Motion, a company from picturesque Monterey, CA has been tackling the issue of darkness by providing illumination solutions for cyclists and underwater videographers. I am really digging their Seca line of high performance lights. The number on each of their models refers to lumens rating, or simply how much light is put out the front. The Seca 700 Race outputs a staggering 700 lumens from its five LED’s. In comparison, a Mag 3D puts out a measly 76 lumens. It has has three brightness levels, as well as a fast-switching race mode, and is able to shine on high for an impressive 3.5 hours before needing a charge. It uses a 6-cell Li-ion battery pack that fills in just 2.5 hours making it perfect for long commutes and a favorite among 24-hour racers. The kit comes complete with full mounting accessories for your handlebar and helmet.

In use, I found that I rarely needed to go past the medium mode. The beam pattern is very wide, giving me light at nearly a 180 degree sweep. The beam shape is odd, not concentric like you might be used to from a flashlight. There is little artifacting, thanks to the parabolic reflector design. The whole body acts as a heatsink, with fins serving both design and practical purposes. I noticed inductor whine at the high level, but that was only in a perfectly quiet room, standing still. Mounted on a moving bike, I am certain the rider would not notice.

If you are looking for a high-output, rechargeable light system for your bike, and you’re willing to make an investment ($549 MSRP), I would recommend the Seca 700. And, if you need something to just jot down to the market and you are going to be mostly be riding under streetlamps, the company has wide range of products to help you there as well.

http://joshspear.com/item/seca-700-race/

The 24-hour racing season is upon us. Make sure that you’re riding the brightest and most reliable equipment available! To start the season off right, Light & Motion is offering two specially priced race bundles. Find your local dealer by clicking here, or make your purchase through our new online store! Your order will be fulfilled by a local dealer!

Race Bundle:

24-hour racers and night-riding enthusiasts agree—the optimal setup for riding or racing at night is a two-light combination. We polled our sponsored pro’s to find out which combination they like the best. The reply was virtually universal; Seca 700 Race on the handlebars with a Stella 200 on the helmet. So we packaged it. Here's the skinny:

• Seca 700 Race Light System
• Stella 200 LED Light Head
• 3-cell Li-ion Cub Battery

Normally the retail pricing on this combo would be $799.97, but through April 30th, 2009 you can get this bundle for only $699.97. A savings of $100!

You may have heard about our all-new line of LED lights for 2008. But did you know that they’re 100% new? No product was left untouched. Seca is new from the ground-up, Stella has received two new models, a face-lift and a brighter LED emitter, and Vega has a new price point and a freshly redesigned shape.

In addition to an all-new product line, we’ve overhauled our website to make sure that visitors get the information that they’re looking for as quickly as possible. That means fewer clicks, less scrolling and multiple pictures of each light system right there on a single page.

Light & Motion also wants to be your information resource for education on portable, recreational lighting. We’ve added a Knowledge section, designed to make battery chemistries, lumens and beam patterns easier to understand. Our goal is to educate our customers about lighting and to convey the joy of riding at night. It’s through this education that you’ll see the advantages that Light & Motion has in the marketplace.

Most importantly, we’ve improved our Contact Form, and will continue to work on developing the website to allow our customers to interact with us. We want to hear your feedback; opening up a dialogue so that we can continue to grow and improve as a company.

We thank you for your time and for your support.

After thousands of hours of engineering and several hundred more hour testing on the trails, Light & Motion’s Seca was introduced to the public at the Interbike trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008.

When the bike light design team sat down during the latter part of last year, our agenda was to develop a light that would follow the ARC at the top of our product line. With that goal, came a lot of responsibility. After all, the ARC had been perched atop the recreational lighting market for several years, and was durable, reliable and really stinkin’ bright. Anything that followed had to surpass these characteristics—and that was a tall order.

It was obvious to Light & Motion that LED’s were the wave of the future. We had started working on LED lighting back in 2004 with our commuter light, Vega. In 2007 we raised the bar by introducing the Stella, our compact single LED system— a go-anywhere, do-anything light system. We explored multiple directions for Seca, opting to go with a multi-LED head using a parabolic reflector and port design. This gave us the power that we wanted, the ability to shape the beam pattern precisely for cycling, and it used a reliable heat-sink design to give our customers the dependability that they are used to from a Light & Motion system.

For 2008, Seca is available in three different models:

Seca 700 Ultra, 700 lumens of light output with the 9-cell Li-ion battery pack, monster 5.0-hour run-times on High, tool-free handlebar/helmet mounts and a quick 3.5 hour recharge time.

Seca 700 Race, 700 lumens of light output with a 6-cell Li-ion battery pack, 3.5-hour run-times on High, tool-free handlebar/helmet mounts and a fast 2.5-hour recharge time (this is our 24-hour racing weapon!).

Seca 400, providing 400 lumens of light and a flyweight 3-cell Li-ion battery, 2.5-hour run-time on High, tool-free handlebar/helmet mounts and an unbelievably speedy 1.75-hour recharge time. To top it all off, the entire package weighs just 380g! (0.84 lb)

Complete specs are links to reviews are available on our website at www.bikelightingsystem.com.

One of the most common questions we’ve received since launching Seca is, “Can Seca be retrofitted to work with the Multi-Chem charger and battery from my ARC?” We’re happy to say that the answer is a resounding, “Yes!” It is possible to retrofit the Seca to your current system. Not only do you get a bump in run time, but you get all of the reliability and the increased power that the new Seca LED systems offer.

With that in mind, we wanted to offer something special to our current Light & Motion ARC customers to thank you for your business.

Announcing the ARC to Seca Upgrade Offer!

For Light & Motion customers who have purchased an ARC in the past and already have a 6- or 9-cell Li-ion or 9-cell NiMH battery; you can now upgrade your system to a new Seca light head!

Pricing:

Upgrade to a Seca 400 light head for $199.99, or
Upgrade to a Seca 700 light head for $269.99

Remember, you must currently own a Light & Motion 6-cell Li-ion, 9-cell Li-ion, or 9-cell NiMH battery to qualify. This special upgrade offer is available through any Light & Motion dealer. Find the dealer nearest to you by clicking here.

When we talk about Light & Motion as a green company, we mean it. Over the past few years, local and state governments have recognized us for our commitment to reducing waste and putting sustainability at the forefront of our business model...