It doesn't help that bike lights can get comically expensive. I actually remember someone trying to sell me a $200 bike light in some shop on University Ave in

It doesn't help that bike lights can get comically expensive. I actually remember someone trying to sell me a $200 bike light in some shop on University Ave in Palo Alto a number of years ago (and then looking me like I was some kind of pond scum when I was horrified by the price). Can't really blame people for not being willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a glorified flashlight. (In my case, I was in grad school at the time. The bike itself had only cost $400!)