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08-08-10, 01:37 PM
Here's mine. After wasting $12 for a TwoFish Cycleblock only to find out it's a cheaply made collection of .50 cents worth of materials that didn't fit my flashlight, I decided to try something on my own. And the velcro straps cause the flashlight to bounce around a lot when you ride anyway. :twitchy:
Basically, I sacrificed an old incandescent Schwinn 4AA Bike light to mount the flashlight to. This incandescent light had a lousy on/off switch that never cleanly turned the light exactly on or off. The one good thing about it was that it had a pretty solid handlebar mount that snaps the unit firmly into place and the light was easy to remove.
So I opened up the Schwinn light, removed the light bulb lens assembly, removed the batteries, ripped out the wires, and then used a pair of pliers to bend and twist out all the plastic stuff inside the bottom half of the light. Basically, I gutted out the bottom half of the light so that I was left with a hollow plastic shell that could still attach to the handlebars and be easily removed.
Now I can permanently attach the flashlight to it with a metal clamp. The metal clamp affixes the flashlight very tightly to the plastic bottom. The whole thing took about 10 minutes and it works perfectly with no bouncing while riding. :thumb: :D The flashlight snaps firmly in place and is easy to remove so it won't get stolen.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6653/ghettoflashlightholder1.jpg
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7976/ghettoflashlightholder3.jpg
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4936/ghettoflashlightholder2.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5038/ghettoflashlightholder4.jpg
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5613/ghettoflashlightholder6.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5232/ghettoflashlightholder8.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6342/ghettoflashlightholder7.jpg
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Basically, I sacrificed an old incandescent Schwinn 4AA Bike light to mount the flashlight to. This incandescent light had a lousy on/off switch that never cleanly turned the light exactly on or off. The one good thing about it was that it had a pretty solid handlebar mount that snaps the unit firmly into place and the light was easy to remove.
So I opened up the Schwinn light, removed the light bulb lens assembly, removed the batteries, ripped out the wires, and then used a pair of pliers to bend and twist out all the plastic stuff inside the bottom half of the light. Basically, I gutted out the bottom half of the light so that I was left with a hollow plastic shell that could still attach to the handlebars and be easily removed.
Now I can permanently attach the flashlight to it with a metal clamp. The metal clamp affixes the flashlight very tightly to the plastic bottom. The whole thing took about 10 minutes and it works perfectly with no bouncing while riding. :thumb: :D The flashlight snaps firmly in place and is easy to remove so it won't get stolen.
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6653/ghettoflashlightholder1.jpg
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7976/ghettoflashlightholder3.jpg
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4936/ghettoflashlightholder2.jpg
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5038/ghettoflashlightholder4.jpg
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5613/ghettoflashlightholder6.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5232/ghettoflashlightholder8.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6342/ghettoflashlightholder7.jpg
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