Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
The L&M lights perform well, but build quality is poor from my experience, and the mount sucks donkey balls.
The problem with the brackets is now pretty much market wide with all rear tail lights. You see LED's last forever, light manufactures know this, and if they made durable mounts then they would never sell enough tail lights to stay in business, so they make schity brackets that will either break or come lose losing your light so they can sell you a new one every couple of years instead of once every 25 years. I have a two old tail lights, one is a 25 year old Vistalite and the other is a 11 or 12 year old LED Cateye, both of those brackets could easily take a pounding of off road rough riding and not care in the least bit which is why those brackets still work today, but todays crappy brackets are either little rubber bands or zip ties (welded) to the light, both of which are odd sized so finding replacements at Home Depot or some such place would be impossible, so when they break you'll need a new light. OR, the battery is self contained and either impossible to replace when it no longer holds a charge or expensive to replace thus screaming for a new light to be bought every 2 to 5 years.