The Radbot 1000 has 2 inches of reflector and a 1watt led with an annoyingly irregular flash pattern. It's what I went to when I got tired of my Superflashes' switches getting wet and failing, lenses falling off, et cetera.

Oh yeah, the Radbot too. How's battery life been on yours? Mine had problems on a couple aspects.

On my mountain commuter, I have a square red DOT Class II reflective tape that measures about 6 x 6 inches. Quite the serious reflector On my road commuter, I just applied it down the rear fender, so it's more like 1 x 15 inches.

I have generator lights on my commuter, with a supplemental battery blinkie in back.

My front is mounted on my front rack, from one of the M5 mounting holes on the underside of the platform. I use an R&M Mount to drop it below the level of my front bag.

My rear wired light is mounted directly to my stainless steel fender. It's a B&M Seculite, with an almost 180-degree visible red LED, and a large red reflector.
My battery blinky is a PDW something-or-other (I forget the model) mounted on my traffic side seatstay.

I did something similiar. My local bike shop has several pieces of cut off tubing from forks that were installing. Some even had the star washer inside. So, I drilled a tiny hole in the rack and screwed the head tubing to it. A plastic chair leg cap finishes it off nicely.

I re-purposed a strut from a rear rack to create my own DIY rack mount for the Planet Bike Superflash



I just drilled a pair of holes in the deck of the rack, bent the strut into a "U" shape w/a flat bottom, cut off the extra material, and bolted the strut to the bottom to the rack.

I prefer to use self-locking nuts to prevent them from backing off over time.

The lens of all my rear lights is molded in such a way that it is also a reflector,
when the light is off..

Though if you folks who remove your battery lights,
then having a permanently fitted reflector, might be necessary,
for when you misplace the removed battery light .

My regular computer died, so I don't have a photo handy at the moment...

I have a rack with a piece of metal bent down from the back of it, which is where a rear reflector is mounted. There is one screw and one plastic nub holding it on. I loosened the screw in order to swivel the reflector down (so now only the screw holds it in place). Then I took my rear seatpost light and fastened the round part around the flat piece of metal. It can't fall off because the reflector is bigger than the round hole meant for the seatpost.

The only problem with that is then the light is floppy. I have a plastic crate bungeed to my rack, so I simply reworked the bungee to loop under the light to hold it flush up against the bottom of the crate. The power button is pointed down of course, to make it easy to turn the light on/off.


When I make my panniers and remove the crate, I'll have to think of something else, of course. Maybe then my seatpost will be available.

Same here. They're old Cateye LD500 lights that are dim by PB superflash standards, but are clearly labeled as CPSC-approved reflectors, and that's all my state requires in back.

OP, what kind of taillight do you have? Or are you buying a new one?

I've got a Radbot 1000, PB Superflash and Dinotte 140 taillights. The Radbot and Superflash both included extra mounts that will attach to seat stays and/or racks. The Dinotte is designed to fit seatposts, period, which is an unfortunate design flaw for an otherwise incredible light. However, I managed to mount the Dinotte to my bike by attaching a small section of PVC pipe that is about the same diameter as a seatpost. I glued an end-cap into the PVC pipe, drilled a hole in it, and then mounted it to my frame with a screw.

I'm not sure of the brand, its a set that came with flash front and rear that is made to hook on bars/tubes. I just hooked it on the back of my rear rack bag on the loop, works fine and hasn't fallen off yet. If and when i lose it, I'll buy one that will mount directly to my rack..

I mounted my PB Blinky 7 on the rear of my rack, using PB's $5 bracket. I put a couple of stainless washers in place as spacers to cler the rear fender a bit.