Cateye AMPP 800 front light review

Town and country commuters on fixed budgets will find a lot to like in the Cateye AMPP 800 front light.

CatEye AMPP 800 front light
(Image credit: CatEye)
Reasons to buy
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    Light hue

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    Beam pattern

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    Mode operating system

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    Battery warning indicator

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    Side visibility

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    Price

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Reasons to avoid
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    Not CatEye Sync compatible

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    Weight

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    Not as bright as similarly classified lights

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Cateye’s latest AMPP range of lights has upped the build quality and power of its existing range considerably. The Cateye AMPP 800 front light offers, unsurprisingly,  up to 800 lumens of visibility in a fairly streamlined package.

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.