Originally Posted by
dougmc
I'm not buying a new fork, just looking to use what I've got.
Turns out that the stem I'm looking for really doesn't exist or is really hard to find, so I'm going to leave that idea alone for now. The HED unit looks interesting, but I'd have to order it online (the local shops don't carry it) and I'm not sure it's quite what I want either. (I'd like to hold it in my hands before I buy it.)
I went ahead and reconfigured my Bar-Xtender, and I think this works better than what I had before. Rather than hang it off the stem downwards, I'm doing it off the middle of the bar through the hole in the face of the stem. This gets the lights mostly out of the way of the cables and improves on that aspect of things.
It's not quite what I was after, but it's pretty good.
Cool!
Regarding that HED unit: Some things are kinda dependent on your personal set. The lolipop set up the way I use it is placed just above the headset and works best if your stem is neutral or oriented for an upwards rather than a downwards attitude. The HED can then be used to mount a bar a distance of 4.5 inches (center to center) in front of the stearing tube. A slot is cut in the bar and a bolt and shaped washer (front fork brake or/ fender washer) used to attach the bar. There are 8 threaded holes (5x0.mm in the HED so if you were only mounting a single light - you could do so firectly for some models. Extremely rigid. Something to think about if you need a winter project.