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[email protected]>, Clifford Griffiths
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>With the equinox now passed my thoughts are turning to lights for my commuting bike.
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>Has anyone come across an effective way of fixing an led light to a rear rack. Many commuting bikes
>have racks and it would seem the most obvious place to fit them.
>
Buy a sensible rack that comes with a mounting plate across the back drilled for the mounting holes
common on European lamps ?
for fitting to the rear of a rack lamps such as the Hella RL980B, the B*M Toplight, or the AXA
optica really are the best as they fit neatly across the rack, usually include a good
reflector as well.
My Tubus Cargo rack has such a plate and mounting is simple, excellent rack to.
<http://www.gearshift.co.uk/acatalog/Rear_Racks.html>
Other alternatives:
The classic bent 'Meccano strip' as used to be supplied for fitting the old Every Ready lamps
You can by neater manufactured versions of the above, such as one by B&M, thyis is a good
replacement for the fitted rear plate. and ECGE made a neat little aluminium bracket that clamped to
the rear of a rack to take a lamp that bolts one like traditional rear bulbed dynamo lamps, it's
still available, now made by ARC I think.
You can see these on the SJSC site at:
<http://www.sjscycles.com/store/vIndex.htm>
SJSC also do a mounting bracket for LEDS like the Vistalite 5 LED, it's made for their own racks but
with a 'Meccano strip' could be used for other lights.
My AXA Optica came with a bracket to be fitted with 2 'P' clips to the rear of the rack to replace
the mounting plate
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Chris French, Leeds