Utility Cycling - Old vintage raleigh headlight
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Poke around on ebay, and was curious someone could point me in the direction of an old headlight.
Looking for a source of an old raleigh headlight, something that came off an old raleigh sports.
Thanks!
Brett
roughrider504
11-26-07, 07:26 PM
A normal "bullet" headlight would look just right on a laid back Raleigh.
http://www.bicycledesigner.com/defaulthome.asp?Main=/datasheet.asp%3FPartNumber%3D520003
Doug5150
11-27-07, 12:26 AM
A normal "bullet" headlight would look just right on a laid back Raleigh.
http://www.bicycledesigner.com/defaulthome.asp?Main=/datasheet.asp%3FPartNumber%3D520003
These kinds of lights look nice on the outside, but are really rather pathetic as far as the light they put out goes. The bulb is an ANCIENT screw-in type, and the bulb-retention spring also holds the bulb in the reflector, so you can't easily switch it to a modern flashlight bulb or a LED conversion.
A number of places sell the same light from Electra that already has a LED in it, I don't know what LED type or how bright it is, they never say. Descriptions that I saw said the Electra LED lights use two AA batteries, but the regular-bulb one I bought uses two C's.
The killer mod would be to get one of the $30 CREE flashlights from Lowe's and get that hooked up inside the regular-bulb version.
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There's also these, which have the right look and don't use up batteries:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/TUNGLIN.JPG
http://www.yellowjersey.org/lolite.html