CompleteStreets

Thanks for the info. I just uploaded to imgur.com. I'm pasting the "BBCodes" under the "Huge Thumbnail" size, for anyone interested. As I mentioned, I plan to modify the design of my mount by adding a "bar end" to prevent thieves from hitting the light off with horizontal force.

gauvins

Just wanted to suggest helmet lights. I rarely bike without my helmet and have taken to the habit of carrying it with me when I stop for a coffee or for shopping.

After having handlebar mounted lights and rearview mirror stolen, I've replaced them with helmet mounted equivalents.

01 CAt Man Do

When I read this ( above ) the second time it had me thinking...Anyone that would do something like this had to have some kind of mental disorder. I could understand someone who might choose to steal a light because THEY actually wanted to use it. Not that I think that's a particularly good thing but on the other hand someone who would steal over 5000 blinkies, throw them in a box and stockpile them, had to have an "Anti-blinkie/Anti-flashing light" mental fixation and had no wish for anyone to use a blinking light. 10 to one it was someone with a police record. Someone who is either bipolar or has OCD, know they have a mental disorder, have the medication to treat it but refuse to take it because it takes away their joy. Ah, the joy of stealing a good blinkie! For the mentally deranged it likely is their personal version of crack.

01 CAt Man Do

I just noticed that your front fender is a silvery light color and quite wide. With the lamp mounted where it is I would think you would get a lot of reflective glare off the fender with the lamp mounted so close. . If it were me I'd be tempted to paint the fenders black. With the lamp so close to the fender you would also get a very large shadow from the front tire. The shadow I could get used to but the reflective glare off the fender I would have to do something because that would drive me crazy.

Don't believe I've ever seen a lamp like that before. I was going to say it sure is ugly but it ain't as ugly as that mounting solution.

noglider 

Good point. I fixed it, but that illustrated the problem with my suggestion. Darn, why does google have to make things so hard? They think they're experts at user interfaces, but they're wrong.

canklecat

Hmm... I've used Google Drive and Photos a lot to post photos to BF since they discontinued local photo hosting and direct uploads. Let's try again and see if anything has changed since the last time...


Image hosted on Google Drive

Seems to show up okay, at least for me. Anyone else having trouble viewing this attached image? Should show an old French Wonder light.

noglider 

It doesn't show because you haven't given the world permission to download it. Try a browser where you are not logged into google, and you will see what we are seeing.

CompleteStreets

I'd avoid Google Drive. One weird thing that's happened when I've tried Google Drive for uploading to bikeforums is that the photos will upload properly, allowing myself and others to see the photos within the body of the post ... but only for half an hour or so. After that short amount of time the link disappears. Imgur.com seems to work much better. It has a little bit of learning curve for sizing the photos to your preference, but it's pretty user friendly.

CompleteStreets

Yeah, there is a bit of an annoying glare from the fender. Thanks for the suggestion to paint the fender black. I may do that at some point. The ugly setup is now hidden as I've added a ziplock bag over the light and mount. Yeah, yeah, I know that makes it look even more janky, but I don't care at this point. All I want is a low-cost waterproof light that won't get stolen. Hopefully I've found the answer.

canklecat

Ah, I see what happened with my photo attached via Google Drive. I use two different PCs, each logged into different Google accounts. The account I normally use from the laptop has public permissions. The account I use from the desktop doesn't.

WheresWaldo

I have used Google Drive, Microsoft's OneDrive, Dropbox and others to host pictures. It is doable but if you need to click through more than a few screens to make it work, it isn't worth my time. I can upload a photo to imgur.com and click on the image and get a link faster than I can do the same with a preexisting image on any of those services. And I don't need to use the forum dialog since the IMG tags are already there.

With all due respect to @noglider and @canklecat, you tried to show how easy it was to use Google drive and you actually proved my point for me. Both of your initial responses failed to actually show an image. Please do not take this statement as anything other than an observation and personal opinion.

Now back to the topic at hand. I am also interested in a headlight that will be harder to remove, my thought is moving toward replacing thumb screws with Torx screws, since not to many people carry around Torx drivers.

noglider 

No argument from me. You're absolutely right. Google could make this easier, but they don't. Maybe I'll give imgur a try. Or maybe I'll give flickr a second try. That was the first time in a long while I made that mistake with google. All of the images I post here are in my google photos. But your point is still valid.

fietsbob

some bike designers are now building in lights.

canklecat

I still find Google photos easy because of the link between Google photos on my hard drive and my Google cloud account. All of my photo uploads since Bike Forums discontinued local hosting have been via Google. This was the first problem I'd experienced, just because I was using a different account on which I'd forgotten to change permissions.

I understand the preferences for other file hosts. I've used Imgur, Flickr, Photobucket, Mediafire, and many, many other photo and file hosts. But I don't care for the hassles of setting up new passworded accounts every time the old one changes policies or goes defunct. And Photobucket is horrible due to the ridiculous amount of scripts running in the background.

If Imgur were as seamless between my local hard drive and their cloud, I'd use it. But in this case the problem with my Google upload was user error, nothing inherent to Google.

However since Google discontinued support for Picasa it's not as appealing as it used to be. That was their most seamless conduit between the locally hosted photos and cloud storage. Unfortunately Google too has a history of suddenly discontinuing products that users like.

WheresWaldo

Believe me when I tell you @canklecat that I use OneDrive for the same reason as you use Drive, integration with my local file system. Well that plus the free 130 GB of storage (my Google drive is only 17GB). But that doesn't change the fact that it is just not easy to link forum photos from either site. Also note that even though many people are on this forum the vast majority have limited computer skills and need easy solutions to linking photos. I presented a simple solution, you and @noglider presented harder ones, simple as that. No need to complicate matters by explanations of why it failed.

I also have active accounts on Dropbox and Box.com

And I hate Google for dumping good products just because they seem to be tired of them!

@fietsbob, Got an example of integrated lights. I had a Schwinn Vestige for a short while, you know, the Bamboo bike with the lights in the frame, it lit up but didn't have an integrated headlight.

jade408

You can try these:

Fortified Bicycle

CompleteStreets

Wow, I'm really impressed with the Fortified Bicycle lights. The Aviator headlight and the Afterburner taillight (300 lumens and 60 lumens, respectively) can now be purchased as a combo for only $79 with free shipping from their website. They even guarantee that the lights won't get stolen or broken or ruined by water. If they do, Fortified will replace them. Great option. Even after hours of researching lights, I hadn't discovered these on my own.

jade408

Such a great price!

I didn't realize they had bikes now too! They launched from a Kickstarter!

BikeLite

The headlights unlikely to get stolen are those you take with you when off the bike?