There seems to be a bit of confusion here about my end result. We have all seen idiotic lash-ups like the guy who duct tapes a regular flashlite to his handle bars. The result looks amaturish, a bit desperate, and is almost totally inefficient. I use purpose-made bike hardware for all my attachments. Everything is black or silver and it looks like it is all part of the same rig. The lights are easily turned on or off or adjusted while on the fly. If want, I can remove the lites in seconds and stick them into one pants pocket. They are very securely attached and don't flicker or cut on & off. And if you can't easily see where you're going with nearly 2 dozen leds, your nite vision is probably not GOOD ENUFF to ride at nite anyway.



The main grocery store where I shop, employs the poster boy for the homemade junk that "stands out like a terd in the punchbowl". He rides a cruiser bike with an enormous basket and panniers. Taped, tied, glued and bolted to his rig is a bewildering assortment of red, amber, and white flashlites, lanterns, flashers and strobes; including a pair of flourescent tube lanterns! I'm dying to see this rig at nite. It must look like a traveling carnival wagon. By contrast, I often stop at the local library on week-ends on my road bike where there is always a fair collection of bikes at the rack. Often I exchange pleasentries with other bikers who are coming or going. Never has one of them questioned my lite set-up. I can only assume that it is because they don't realize it's "homemade". It just looks right.

Besides, I had FUN "engineering" this to look professional.