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Cateye Viz450 rear light review

The CatEye Viz450 rear light isn’t new for 2023, but it turns in impressive performance, even against the latest competition.

Easy operation from four modes leaves nothing redundant, and the ability to mount it horizontally is useful if you don’t have much seatpost real estate to spare.

The ‘HyperFlash’ mode is the standout setting. While I think it’s striking and disruptive enough to potentially be a distraction to drivers at night, it’s very effective in use during winter’s dim daylight hours.

Cateye Viz450 rear light details and specifications

The battery is recharged via the micro-USB charge port on the bottom of the light (in vertical position). Ashley Quinlan / Our Media

The Cateye Viz450 rear light has been, on paper, one of the most powerful rear bike lights on the market for a couple of years.

Although it’s outstripped on paper by the Ravemen TR500 among our 2023 test group, it’s worth noting from the outset that the Viz450 only puts out 450 lumens for a briefly repeating strobe.

This is part of the so-called ‘HyperFlash’ mode, which is the star of the show here, activating all five of its LEDs (which live behind three focus and two pyramidal lenses…

Cateye Inou GPS camera – First look

Cateye's new 'Inou' gadget is a bit of a conundrum. It's supplied with a handlebar mount and is GPS enabled so you might expect it to be a high-tech cycle computer, along the lines of the Garmin Edge 800. But it has no screen, so you can't view routes, current speed or other information as you ride.

It also has a camera capable of taking both stills and video footage, and it comes with a strap so you can mount it to your helmet. But there's no viewfinder and while the image quality is certainly good enough for road riding and YouTube viewing, it's not up there with the market leaders.

The idea behind the Inou is that you film and take photos as you ride – the camera can be set to take pictures at intervals, for example once a minute – to produce a photographic record of your journey. When you arrive home, you plug the device into your PC or Mac, navigate to the Inou website (www.inouatlas.com – but it's not live yet) and are able to view the exact route you've just ridden, in Google Maps.

Cateye inou: cateye inou - James Costley-White/BikeRadar

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