Author Topic: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges  (Read 42407 times)

mmmmartin

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #25 on: 19 December, 2014, 03:09:20 pm »
A very good bodge indeed. In that photograph there is an intriguing bag on the front of the bike, similar to an idea I had recently. Can you tell us a little more about it please?
Besides, it wouldn't be audacious if success were guaranteed.

Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #26 on: 22 December, 2014, 01:45:32 pm »
A very good bodge indeed. In that photograph there is an intriguing bag on the front of the bike, similar to an idea I had recently. Can you tell us a little more about it please?

That's a self inflate mattress, bivvi bag, and bag liner rolled up in a stuff sack and tied to the aero bars with a couple of webbing straps. Never used in anger, that was my backup plan if I didn't make it round The Flatlands in one go.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #27 on: 14 February, 2015, 11:45:55 am »
Fitting the B&M Toplight to a Carradice Bagman:



I first tried this bracket bodge, using a cut up bidon as a make-shift p-clip.



But it kept shifting round to point at the ground - thankfully wilkyboy had a solution for me.



Which have fitted beautifully and are holding the rear light securely.



I wrote up a light review and my experience here:
Initial experience
New light fitting

mmmmartin

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #28 on: 15 February, 2015, 01:47:06 pm »
Is there an easily-copied bodge that puts the rear light underneath the rear rack? The idea is that if the rear light was underneath the rear rack it would be protected from the bumps and scrapes of touring life. I have the rear rack plate fitted and the light is on that, but it often I'd knocked and bashed because it sticks out behind the rack. If it sat in the area underneath the rack and recessed by an inch or two it would be protected. I'm in Patagonia at the moment and about to get a series of local buses 1,000k north to the capital and fly back. The answer is to take the light off, obvs. But I reckon there is a simple bodge that would put they might in a protected area.
Ideas?
Besides, it wouldn't be audacious if success were guaranteed.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #29 on: 15 February, 2015, 01:55:05 pm »
Good racks overhang the light bracket to provide this protection, so perhaps instead of re-positioning the light, the solution is to augment the rack.  The simplest approach that springs to mind is a bit of L-section with appropriate holes fitted between the light and the mounting plate.

mmmmartin

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #30 on: 16 February, 2015, 12:28:59 am »
Interesting idea. Thanks.
I have a Thorn rear rack. Not sure how I'd extend that.
Besides, it wouldn't be audacious if success were guaranteed.

Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #31 on: 08 March, 2015, 09:24:56 am »
Here's a better photo of my Bagman 2 light bracket:


Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #32 on: 08 March, 2015, 10:46:01 pm »
Fitting the B&M Toplight to a Carradice Bagman:



I first tried this bracket bodge, using a cut up bidon as a make-shift p-clip.



But it kept shifting round to point at the ground - thankfully wilkyboy had a solution for me.



Which have fitted beautifully and are holding the rear light securely.



I wrote up a light review and my experience here:
Initial experience
New light fitting

Anyone know where such lurvely P-clips might be obtained?


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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #34 on: 08 March, 2015, 11:02:55 pm »
Ooh, I've got a chain tube that would probably benefit from one of those...   :thumbsup:

Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #35 on: 08 March, 2015, 11:19:22 pm »
What sort of size do you need - I can bring one over tomorrow if the ones I've got are suitable?

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #36 on: 08 March, 2015, 11:43:44 pm »
12mm off the top of my head, presumably all yours are smaller.

Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #37 on: 09 March, 2015, 08:26:32 am »
My receipts don't tell me what size I bought. They're about a cm diameter in their natural, relaxed state, so probably smaller than what you're after, but with a lot of scope for bending - I'll chuck 'em in my pannier just in case they're informative...


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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #39 on: 09 March, 2015, 08:46:55 pm »
That is a lot more affordable than the RS components pack of 50.

I was gifted some by a generous member of this forum. I wonder whether it would be worth getting a forum load of them and sharing them out.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #40 on: 19 November, 2015, 02:08:45 pm »
Is there an easily-copied bodge that puts the rear light underneath the rear rack?...

I have a bodge for racks with a solid top plate. It creates a short post underneath the rack to which you can attach any rear light using the seatpost bracket.







Ingredients:
a plastic spool of sewing thread. Black, ideally.
a bolt, 15mm longer than the spool and narrow enough to go through its centre
a nylock nut to fit the bolt
a washer

Equipment:
a drill 
a drill bit slightly wider than the bolt
spanner to fit nylock nut
marker pen

Method:
1. Unwind the thread from the spool and discard it. You just need the plastic spool.
2. Mark a point on the centre of your rack top, about 4cm from the rear edge. Drill a hole at this point.
3. Slot the bolt through this hole and fasten the empty spool to the underside of the rack using the nylock nut and washer.
4. Attach your rear light to the spool using the seatpost bracket.

With this bodge, the rack acts as a cage for the light and protects it from being knocked by luggage.

I used a roofing bolt which is good because it has a domed head. If you're beady eyed, you'll have noticed it's a square nut in the photos, not a nylock one. That's all I had when I put this together. To be replaced.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #41 on: 19 November, 2015, 06:58:22 pm »
My first thought on seeing that was that it was one of those rubbery doughnut Mini exhaust mounts as used for æons as seat mounts on Windcheetahs.
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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #42 on: 19 November, 2015, 08:06:34 pm »
i had the same thought but i used them as trailer hitches  :)
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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #43 on: 20 November, 2015, 01:28:38 am »
I have a bodge for racks with a solid top plate. It creates a short post underneath the rack to which you can attach any rear light using the seatpost bracket.

That needs to be tilted back. It's the reflector that needs to be vertical, not the seam between the red lamp body and the black mount section.
As it is, the light is aimed at the ground 6 feet behind the bike, and it will appear much dimmer to approaching motorists than it ought.
(a common error with the TL-AU100)

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #44 on: 20 November, 2015, 11:31:24 am »
You're right, Andrew. It needs fettling.

Paul

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #45 on: 20 November, 2015, 12:48:13 pm »
I have a bodge for racks with a solid top plate. It creates a short post underneath the rack to which you can attach any rear light using the seatpost bracket.

That needs to be tilted back.

Or just fit a smaller front wheel?

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #46 on: 20 November, 2015, 03:34:54 pm »
I always wanted a Chopper.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #47 on: 20 November, 2015, 04:35:14 pm »
Nowt wrong with small front wheels...

(Does that light come with a mudguard-mounting option?  I don't see why else it would be designed that way...)

Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #48 on: 21 November, 2015, 12:08:38 pm »
It's got a tab and a screw hole, which are spaced to allow you to fix it in place of the reflector fitted to some mudguards (at least, some of the SKS ones I've used).

It's really a bit chunky and heavy for that location though, given that it's cantilevering off a couple of relatively thin and flexible stays: IME it leads to the mudguard cracking earlier than expected.

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Re: Rear Light Brackets and Bodges
« Reply #49 on: 23 November, 2015, 10:00:36 pm »
Here's a better photo of my Bagman 2 light bracket:



More brackets than bike frame !!!
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