Answering your cycling questions

no - need to spend a little more on a front for that.
exposure joystick is one option

No: you want the maxx-D

for a cheaper option, these would ideal for night riding. it's not too brigt in asense you can't see anything, but you will leave something to the imagination. 110 lumens on he front and 75lumens on the rear. reall y good set of lights.

In all honesty - NO, if you read my review I state that they really are not suitable to used as a main light on unlit roads.

What you want in all honesty depends on how deep your pockets are and really what sort of "night time" conditions you plan cycling and for how long - so it is the old length of string answer.

But what I use are: Exposure Enduro MaxX2 (3 led) front light, in combination with a Exposure Joystick Mk4 on the helmet - but that combination is nearly £500 worth of lights!

What ever you do use needs to have in excess of 2hrs duration at 100% with a spot beam length of at least 30' of at least 250lumens for the main light and about 10' spot beam length of at least 100lumens for the secondary or helmet mounted light!

Althought the beam is very bright, it is not enough for mounting bike if you are really riding in the middle of the night, where you have to see far ahead and on the sides...

Not on its own, it does throw out a spot light, but it should really be used in conjunction with a maxx-D front light(3hours burn time on full). Even better yet use a joystick with a maxx-D or strada front light.

These lights are really to allow you to be seen, rather than to see by. So for mountain or road biking: the rear light - absolutely - the front light - no, it will really only do as a "twilight", emergency, or cyclotourist-tunnel light.

You will need something with much more forwards iillumination and this will almost certainly be a higher rating Li-ion rechargable of 500+ lumen. Exposure make a range of them - other excellent brands are Ay-up, Light & Motion, Hope, Niteflux, Niterider etc.

No - the front is not bright enough to see where you're going. This is fine, as it's got plenty of side visibility for use in traffic and any brighter it would blind you as you rode along.

Yes, but the battery size is not a very common one. I got some from Jessops, but they were horrendously expensive (£16 for two). They more often found in cameras, so apart from Exposure's own versions, they can be difficult to come by

yes

Yes

yes you can but the flash only puts out 40 lumens on a standard CR123 due to the lower voltage, its 110 with a 3.7v rechargeable .

Mine came with a set of non rechargeable batteries so yes, presumably. I recommend the charger set though, you'll save a lot of money and the lights are a bit brighter on rechargeables.

Yes, but light output will apparently be less.

yes u can i tend to take a set with me on longer rides for back up.

I think so, They use the small cylindrical Li-Ion CR123A batteries, which from what i can work out are sold seperately as non rechargables for around 7.99 for 2.

couple of hours usually does it

It took me about 4h from scratch.

approx 2hours.

Er....... I haven't really timed the recharge time but with the Exposure charger for the Exposure 700mAh RCR123A Li ion cells provided it is about 3-4hrs for the first primary charge after that it does depend on a heck of a lot of variables!?

How discharged they were??
How old the cells are??
What capacity cells they are (you can get higher capacity ampere/hour RCR123A Li ion cells from other sources)??
What ambient temperature they are charging at??

etc ......... etc!

Not sure - the instructions are a bit limited - seems to be about 3 hours - each charge seems to last for about 4-5 hours on flashing mode.

Mine are taking about 4 hours to fill up.

My Exposure Flare rechargeable batteries recharge in about 3 hours using the Exposure charger sold on evans. I'm pretty sure the Flash uses the same batteries so will be the same.

The plug is for a standard UK outlet so you will need an adaptor for other parts of the world.

the charger comes with the regular UK standard socket,you have to use an adapter to use it in US and Canada,if your worried about the INPUT its: 110-240 volts /50-60 Hz so would work worldwide,hope this answers your query.

It's 110/220V compatible. You'll just need a US adapter of some sort.

you may need a different charger unfortunately.

It comes with a UK plug... Was not a problem to replace it by a Euro plug for me....

Its a UK Plug but exposure do sell the different chargers which will fit plugs across the globe. Evans should be able to special order one for you but you will have to pay for this addtionally charger. or alternatly you can use it with a plug adaptor! but the cable is detachable from the unit so you could by a cable from a electronic store.

we could order the whole set with the usa plug but it will take up to 2 weeks.

Finally my lights arrived, and I am proverbially delighted.
Only the re-charge kit looks different (model SE-H001).
I guess it´s the older version & that´s the distinction between the 10/11 models !
Well, it worked fine the first charging and I hope it stays that way,...

the lighs are exactly the same but they now come with a better charger (the old one was bobbins - I went through 3 of them but Exposure customer service are very good).

Comes with a handy softcase, well worth the extra over the disposable option.

well i have no idea on whats the difference on models 2010/2011 and 2012,but this i can say the review on them are great and should say so my self,with the rechargeable batteries you get 110 lumens on front light and i think 45-50 lumens on the flare(red light), i have been using them for 3 months and i cant fault them,
and YES they do come with the re-charge kit With the softcase,i hope ive answered your questions

im not really sure about the earlier versions but this is 2011 versions, the front light is 110 lumnes and the rearlight is 75 lumens, hope this helps

yes these are the 2011 version, but the recharge kit set is sold out.