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Problem with lights

  • 12-01-2013 6:30pm
    #1
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭


    Right, I just got a new bike, went to throw the light on for a spin down the shops, problem is, the front light mount won't fit because the handlebars are oversized and the bike has suicide breaks, so basically, the only place the flights could fit without blocking the suicide breaks, is too fat for the light mount.

    Anyone know of a work around?


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  • #2
    colm_gti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭colm_gti


    This an option?


  • #3
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Looks like it could be perfect, was thinking there's has to be some way to mount it on the stem alright!


  • #4
    ford2600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    Why not use an o ring mount? Have it on mtb for midweek madness, simple versatile and stable. I have two different size o rings have fitted to five different bikes
    Seaneh wrote: »
    Right, I just got a new bike, went to throw the light on for a spin down the shops, problem is, the front light mount won't fit because the handlebars are oversized and the bike has suicide breaks, so basically, the only place the flights could fit without blocking the suicide breaks, is too fat for the light mount.

    Anyone know of a work around?


  • #5
    Dexif
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Dexif


    What about fitting the bracket upside down so light is under the bars?


  • #6
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    ford2600 wrote: »
    Why not use an o ring mount? Have it on mtb for midweek madness, simple versatile and stable. I have two different size o rings have fitted to five different bikes

    a whatnow?


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  • #7
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Dexif wrote: »
    What about fitting the bracket upside down so light is under the bars?


    the mount would still be blocking the breaks...


  • #8
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    I actually found a fix this evening.
    I was sitting with the mount looking at me across the room, walked over, picked it up and turned it over a few times and noticed a screw on the top, un did the screw and took the face plate off (the bit the light clicks onto) and wouldn't ya know it, there was a rwo of 3 notches inside which allow you to make the band bigger or smaller to suit different bar widths, it was set in the middle notch, I moved it into the biggest one closest the front which made it the crucial few ml bigger so it now fist on the bars, right between the suicide levers and stem perfectly.

    And yes, I know, I should have checked it before!


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