Originally Posted by
dougmc
If I do, that'll be my third light. I've tried that, and I've found I don't like the additional weight on the helmet, and I tend to blind people when I look at them. Might be OK if I pick a small flashlight, however.
Every bike in the household has at least one of the $2 flashlight mounts on it, so I just put a flashlight on whatever bike I'm riding, and have several more ready for the rest of the family too if they want to ride. Works well.
Computing! Actually, one is a standard cyclocomputer and one is a GPS. I don't always have the GPS with me, but I still like to keep track of how far each bike has been ridden, and so a (cheap) cyclocomputer on each bike does that nicely, and even if I forgot the GPS at home.
Right now, while I'm intrigued by Burton's HED water bottle mount (would just need to make a way to mount a bar on the end of it), I think I'll just go with a standard stem. Looks like I can use a stem with a 30 mm stem height -- that's exactly how much space I have, and while that's on the short side, they do exist. Just need to find a long one and I'm set.
Without going to a second stem you can still go to a second bar simply by using the accessory bar in the second link and replacing the CF mounting bar with a second handlebar which you can cut to your own taste.
The HED unit normally mounts above the existing stem for a bottle cage, but mounted below the stem, is nice to mount a light(s) on a road bike. As long as you have no bar bag that is.
Neither solution requires a fork with an uncut steering tube.