Old 10-13-09 | 03:19 PM
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PaulRivers
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Originally Posted by sauerwald
I have two bikes with fork mounts for the headlights (both Dynamo powered lights), both mounts work well.

Bike one has a Planet Bike Blaze headlight which is mounted to a Paul 'Gino' mount (http://www.paulcomp.com/ginolightmount.html). In the picture on the site, he shows it mounted down by the wheel axle, in my case, it is mounted to a braze-on which is about half way up the fork. This ought to work fine for any bike with a braze-on on the fork.

Bike two has a Supernova E3 161-S headlight (also a shaped beam), which i mounted to a braze on half way up the fork with a long bolt, and a spacer that I custom cut from a piece of aluminium tubing. I used lock washers on either side of the spacer, and it seems to work fine. FWIW, I use home-made spacers from aluminium tubing for a lot of stuff, you buy a piece of the tubing, and can then cut it with a tubing cutter to whatever length you need.

Mark

Thanks for the info!

I don't have braze-ons on the fork, but having only 1 dynamo light I don't think I would like mounting it below the wheel and dealing with the wheel shadow. Or anyone not seeing the light because they were at just the wrong angle where the wheel was between them and the light when they looked.

Thanks, though.
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