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Fender mounted TAIL light
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Carl Sundquist wrote: Does anyone make a RED tail light designed to fit onto a rear fender? Yup, they were the only way to go here until recently ;-) They're being displaced *quickly* by rack-mount taillights, because rack-mount has a few benefits: - heavy fender mount lights break the fenders - fender-lights get dirty faster ;-) - the height is better (with all the BIG cars around ;-) - cable routing is easier, mostly - Most fenders are too short, anyway ;-) The only fender mounted light I found was It's sold for less than half the price at DIY-markets here. Though, beware of the contacts where the wires are attached - I had mine corroding so much that after two years there was no light :-( As I said, if you can mount the taillight to the rack, prefer this ;-) but they are a white light with a reflector underneath. I don't want a white light. I am not backing up. ;-) Well, they're using red LED so a clear-glass cover is actually a sign of quality ;-) Try to avoid bulb-rear-lights as they tend to fail quite often... Ciao.. |
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Fender mounted TAIL light
On Nov 24, 4:48*am, Bernhard Agthe wrote:
Hi, Carl Sundquist wrote: Does anyone make a RED tail light designed to fit onto a rear fender? Yup, they were the only way to go here until recently ;-) They're being displaced *quickly* by rack-mount taillights, because rack-mount has a few benefits: - heavy fender mount lights break the fenders - fender-lights get dirty faster ;-) - the height is better (with all the BIG cars around ;-) - cable routing is easier, mostly - Most fenders are too short, anyway ;-) Agreed--the rear rack is the perfect place for an LED tail lamp now that most fenders aren't metal and the LED lamp itself weighs more due to carrying batteries. A visit to any proper Swedish shop will confirm this. ;-) Of course USian lamps are still post-centric, meaning they'll be obscured by the suckling pig on your rack this holiday season. |
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Fender mounted TAIL light
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landotter wrote: Agreed--the rear rack is the perfect place for an LED tail lamp now that most fenders aren't metal and the LED lamp itself weighs more due to carrying batteries. A visit to any proper Swedish shop will confirm this. ;-) Of course USian lamps are still post-centric, meaning they'll be obscured by the suckling pig on your rack this holiday season. Ah, I was not talking about a seat post lamp but about a rear-end-of-rack-lamp ;-) Which will not be obsured by neither the pig on the rack nor by a low trailer ;-) With battery lamps you're likely out of luck anyway as they'Re mostly for "half" bikes that have neither rack nor fender ;-) So the majority mounts to the seat post - but you might be able to mount it to the rack, anyway. Since I'm bad on maintenance once I return (I do most maintenance before setting out) I usually had empty batteries in my lights - so I dumped the battery lights completely and went for a (first spoke- then hub-) dynamo driven lighting system which works great! Never care about low batteries - the light even comes on automatically ;-) Have fun! |
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Fender mounted TAIL light
landotter wrote:
Agreed--the rear rack is the perfect place for an LED tail lamp now that most fenders aren't metal and the LED lamp itself weighs more due to carrying batteries. A visit to any proper Swedish shop will confirm this. ;-) Of course USian lamps are still post-centric, meaning they'll be obscured by the suckling pig on your rack this holiday season. It's annoying how many rear racks don't come with the mounting hardware for a tail light. I've fabricated a bunch of hardware for this purpose, but it's not as good as just having the damn tail light mount welded to the rack. You need a really light light for a fender. Something like the Cateye SD-LD100 which uses two coin cells. Probably some way to mount it to a fender. "http://www.cateye.com/en/product_detail/273" The Blackburn Flea would also probably work, as it has a light Li-Ion rechargeable battery built in. "http://www.blackburndesign.com/lights.html" The problem with a lot of LED tail lights is that they don't have a wide enough viewing angle, due to a lack of side pointing LEDs. The Cateye TL-LD1100 is the best tail light, but it's $35-40. I like the old Blackburn Mars 2.0, which is only about $12, but changing the batteries requires removing the light, and removing 3 screws. |
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Fender mounted TAIL light
On Nov 24, 11:54*am, Bernhard Agthe wrote:
With battery lamps you're likely out of luck anyway as they'Re mostly for "half" bikes that have neither rack nor fender ;-) So the majority mounts to the seat post - but you might be able to mount it to the rack, anyway. I have found that most seat-post attachments don't go down small enough for rear rack tubes. Sometimes you can fatten up the tube with a bit of inner tube rubber, but sometimes you can't. As many seat-post lights are actually belt-clip lights with an added part, I've found you can usually get the belt clip off, drill a hole through it, add a bolt and star washer, and reassemble. Then you have a bolt-on LED and you can put on the back of a rack with a P-clip or with your rack's built-in lamp hole. |
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