Bromptons at Night - Self-Levelling Headlights?

[rower40]

At last I've fitted a light bright enough that I can see where it's pointing.  (B&M IQ Cyo).

As I pedal, the suspension bounces up and down, causing the light to waver from the "melt-the-tarmac" low to "worry the aircraft" high (*).  Can anyone suggest a way to make the light point in a consistent direction?

(*) I have been known to exaggerate a bit.  But a bright light that can illuminate stuff at 100 yds will produce a beam that bounces up and down a fair few feet with only a small change in angle.

Should I just point it at the ground, so that it varies between "illuminate the road at 20 yds" to "illuminate the road at 50 yds"?

[andygates]

You've mounted it on the brake bolt?

[orienteer]

Stiffer suspension rubber (there's a new option)? Or stiffen the existing one with a jubilee clip round it.

[Kim]

Sounds like an excellent excuse for a Heath Robinson gyroscope arrangement... 

[rower40]

You've mounted it on the brake bolt?

Yup.  With a bit of a home-made bracket.  I would take a photo, but it's dark and my camera is a bit poor.

[Bledlow]

My lights go on the handlebars. They stay pointing pretty much where I put them. A Dinotte or Light & Motion Stella is bright enough, I find - or something weaker but flashing (a Knog, or the old Cateye I have a bracket on the bars for) to be seen by in town.

[andygates]

That's where I was heading: lights on the bars are more stable, due to annoying properties of long vs short pendulum arms and the like. 

A bit of a faff with dynamo lamps, what with sussing the fold. 

[rogerzilla]

Short of fitting a HID headlamp from a car with the mandatory auto self-levelling feature*, you'll just have to stiffen the suspension.  I don't notice any misalignment, but I have two jubilee clips on my suspension block, and they're screwed down really tight.


*which never works because the sodding things still dazzle.