I have this particular light on both my Stratus and my Windcheetah. I mounted them both using metal
"tee straps" with pre-drilled holes (a flat piece of metal in the shape of the letter "T" available
in various sizes) I purchased at the local hardware store. The center, pre-drilled hole at the
junction forming the tee can be aligned with the retaining screw on the back of the light, and the
"wings" of the top of the tee then extend sideways across the back of the light.
For my first attempt three years ago at making a bracket for the one mounted on the Stratus' rear
rack, I first painted the tee strap black to match the black rear rack. Then I peeled off the
magnets from the light's plastic back plate. After centering the "center" pre-drilled hole (the one
at the junction forming the tee) over the light's retaining screw, I drilled two holes in the
light's plastic back plate that matched up with two of the tee strap's pre-drilled holes in the
"wings." I then used very short screws with lock nuts to mount the back plate to the tee strap. This
left the light's retaining screw accessible through the tee strap's center pre-drilled hole, and
also left the tail of the tee hanging down from the back plate, with two pre-drilled holes available
on this tail. After snapping the back plate onto the light and securing it with the retaining screw,
I then mounted the light with a screw, lock washer, and lock nut using a pre-drilled hole in the
tee's tail and a pre-existing mounting hole in the rack.
For the Windcheetah, I left the magnets in place on the light's plastic back plate. Then, while I
was at the hardware store picking up a tee strap, I also took along the light's retaining screw
and purchased a matching-thread screw that was longer. This time I drilled no holes in the light's
plastic backplate, and I left the magnets in place. I just centered the tee strap's top center
pre-drilled hole over the retaining screw hole, then using the longer screw I had purchased along
with a couple of flat washers and a lock washer, I attached the tee strap to the light. The metal
tee strap's "wings" are attracted to the magnets, which further holds the light secure to the tee
strap. I then bent the tee strap's tail 90 degrees to make it conform to an existing mounting
point near the rear derailleur and secured it in place. After a few rides on less-than-smooth
roads, however, I found that the light, even though magnetically attached to the tee strap's
wings, tended to rotate around the retaining screw mounting point. I fixed this with a tiny drop
of Gorilla Glue in the tee strap's wing's pre-drilled holes that were located over the magnets.
Voila ! No more rotation!
In each mounting situation I've described above, the batteries are changed by removing the light's
retaining screw and separating the body of the light from the plastic back plate (which remains
attached to the tee strap bracket still attached to the bike).
(FWIW, I have subjected both lights to a tremendous amount of vibration and jarring caused by rough
roads and have never experienced either one shutting off by itself. Guess I've been lucky.)
Hope this helps!
David Norman, OK '99 RANS Stratus XL '03 Windcheetah #697
"Dave Clary" <
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> I appreciate all the good ideas, folks. I'll try to work on it this
weekend and
> see what I can come up with!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, Tx EZ-1SC Pilot (Texas P-38 Squadron Retired) Home:
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