Commuting - NON-quick release lights?

Has anyone experimented with NON-quick release lights. Every rear blinker and front LED light is touted as being quick release. I’ve considered various configurations of zip ties and super glue, etc. Any ideas?? I hate having to strip my bike before I leave it locked up.

I’m in the process of turning my old mountain bike into my new beater bike for short trips to the store, etc. I’m working on making the bike generally unattractive to thieves. I’m thinking about putting hose clamps on the quick release levers, painting over the “specialized” logos, and maybe doing an ultra-cheap SS conversion (just taking the shift levers off (rear is broken) and picking a gear I like with the derailleur limit screws).

Thanks,
Adam

You can get rear LED lamps that bolt onto a bracket welded at the rear of the luggage rack. This is neat, simple and thief-resistant. My front lamp is a dynamo model, bolted to the fork crown. On one bike this is powered by a generator, on another I wired it up to a battery in a waterbottle.
In high crime areas I switched from QR axles to solid axles with a large track nut. You could also use locking skewers.

Check out this thread on what happened to my no quick release lights.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=144154

I don't light the hard mounts for my blinkies because when I hit an unexpected bump the sudden impact will jar the mounting, not neccesarily off, but the alignment. So I use the belt clip on soft mounts like the loops on my packpack or saddle bag or velcro strip. Then the impact will only jiggle the blinkies and they settle back into position, espesially when used in pairs. Also it's easy to remove, because it's on things I'm taking with me anyway.

Friday night in the rain I hit something and lost my front light. Now my view is that any quick release mount light with the weight of internal batteries should just be avoided. The mounts just can't handle a sudden shock reliably. Anyway, I've got less than two weeks till the time change and have got to come up with a front lighting solution. I'm leaning toward a helmut mount only because I think it will absorb sudden shocks better.

Brackets get weak and losen after say 500 or so miles.

Sometimes, you can just add a zip tie or secondary bracket to hold them on. I do this to prevent theft and it's an added precaution so if the bracket breaks, you don't loose the whole light.

Check out this thread on what happened to my no quick release lights.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=144154

Thanks for the link, pretty grim. I am thinkig also, that even if the lights are physically impossible to remove it may still give creeps a reason to investigate, which I don't want either.
Adam

I had a Sanyo Dyanpower system on the touring/commuting bike with the front light mounted on the left fork. I'm not sure if I got my 500 miles in or not, but the clamp loosened, slid down the tapered fork (duh!) and the light found its way into the spokes where it's cheap plastic exploded and luckily didn't get stuck and prompt an endo. Be careful where you mount your light!!

Thanks for the link, pretty grim. I am thinkig also, that even if the lights are physically impossible to remove it may still give creeps a reason to investigate, which I don't want either.
Adam
Sounds like you're coming around to same conclusion I reached. Taking the lights on and off can be a pain, and I keep thinking somebody's going to want to search my pockets in a store. But still I think it's the only way to be sure.

I do think locking skewers is an excellent idea. I like the paintjob idea, too. For some time, I've been majorly tempted to krylon mine into flat black stealthiliciousness. (That's a real word, right? ;))

But then I'd have to join these guys (http://mountainbikemilitia.com/), wouldn't I?

I keep thinking somebody's going to want to search my pockets in a store.

Tough. They may want to, but they have no right to.