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Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £134.99 on Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 review we’re going to look at why it scores 8.9/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 192 products in the Lights category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

9.5

Price

8.8

Reviews

8.4

Overall

8.9

 

Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 reviews

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Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 Specification

Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 specs

Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016
Feature 1

Up to 800 lumen light output

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Automatically adjusts to ambient light conditions

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Compatible with Edge cycling computers

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

5 different light modes

Other Lights found with this feature: 10

Feature 5

Weighs 130g

Other Lights found with this feature: 4

Feature 6

Dimensions: 96.6 x 33.5 x 29.7mm

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 7

Up to 8 hours of battery life

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 8

CREE LED

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 9

270-degrees of side visibility

Other Lights found with this feature: 1

Feature 10

Waterproof

Other Lights found with this feature: 20

Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Lights found with this spec: 1

Price

£134.99

Number of Reviews

3

Review Score

3.7 / 5

Average score in category: 4.2

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  • Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail. A super powerful 800 lumen smart headlight that is compatible with your edge computer for automatic lighting that adjusts to your surroundings Smart Compatibility. You can pair the Varia Smart Headlight to your Edge cycling computer to gain the best in automatic lighting technology. Once paired your Varia light will automatically adjust its beam dependent on your speed and ride profile. For example when you are travelling at high speeds the Vario will provide more light than when you are travelling at slower speeds. The light also instinctively adjusts to ambient light conditions Side Visibility. When cycling in built up urban areas or using busier, multi-laned roads it‚Äôs often important not just to stay visible from the front and back but also to stay seen from multiple different angles. The Vario therefore has a specially designed beam that produces up to 270-degrees of visibility ensuring that you stay seen Light Modes. The Vario comes with five different light modes which you can easily toggle between and choose between dependent on your current lighting environment and your battery life. The modes include:Mode One (High) ‚Äì 800 lumen output and 1.5 hour battery lifeMode Two (Medium) ‚Äì 400 lumen output and 3 hours battery lifeMode Three (Low) ‚Äì 200 lumen output and 6 hours battery lifeMode Four (Night Flash) ‚Äì 100 to 300 lumen output and 6 hours battery lifeMode Five (Day Flash) ‚Äì More than 700 lumen output and 25 hours battery lifeIn the Box. Varia UT800 Smart HeadlightCharging cableHelmetManualFeatures. Up to 800 lumen light outputAutomatically adjusts to ambient light conditionsCompatible with Edge cycling computers5 different light modesWeighs 130gDimensions: 96.6 x 33.5 x 29 7mmUp to 8 hours of battery lifeCREE LED270-degrees of side visibilityWaterproofBuy Garmin Lights from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World‚Äôs Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 753759168889
  • 010-01674-00

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Lights.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 192 different products in the Lights category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 88 products from Garmin (although only 5 of the 88 are in the Lights category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Lights. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Garmin. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Lights. There are 192 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 192, the average price is £72.08. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £1.99 and most expensive was £490.99.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Garmin. The average price was £232.29 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £8.99 up to £764.99 with Garmin products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Garmin products that appear specifically in the Lights category. So you can see that the price of Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 at £134.99 is great value considering the average price of Garmin Lights is £192.59 and the price varies from £134.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £134.99 which represents a £15.00 or 10% saving against RRP. If you think Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Lights too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 3 reviews scoring it 3.7 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Garmin. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Lights category is 4.2 and the average score of products from Garmin is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Garmin in the Lights category the average review score is 4.5.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 such a high overall score of 8.9 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 3 reviews for Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 which score it 3.7, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Garmin Varia UT800 Smart Headlight Trail 2016 or in fact any of the other Lights, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.