Rack mount for CatEye LD1100 -- how secure?
04-16-10 | 10:51 AM
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Rack mount for CatEye LD1100 -- how secure?
Title pretty much says it all. How secure is the rack mount adapter for a CatEye LD1100? I want to mount one to a Tubus Cosmo, but don't want the light to go bouncing down the road if I hit a pot hole.
04-19-10 | 02:33 PM
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The mount is reasonable secure, although I put a ziptie around the PBSF. They tend to separate easily and fly off, leaving you with the now useless back part of the the light.
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04-23-10 | 01:14 PM
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Cateye does offer a rack mount for the 1100 that fits the Tubus rack or other European racks with 50mm C to C taillight mounting holes. For sale on their web site. It seems secure to me. I have seen someone lose the end cap battery cover from the 1100 taillight though.
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04-24-10 | 07:17 PM
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I've got the rack adapter on my bike and it's connected with zip ties. I haven't had any problem with it coming off even with having one zip tie break after a wreck. I check them now before I ride and keep a couple spare ties on the bike, but I doubt I'll need 'em unless I wreck again. I've had the mount over a year and I'm very happy with it.
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04-24-10 | 11:15 PM
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It does a very nice job. I usually have one bank of lights on solid and the other on the freaked out blink cycle (the non-linear one, my coworkers say its freaked out!). It's a good supplement to my superflash. I'm considering a radbot since that seems to be the new standard blinkie
04-26-10 | 06:06 PM
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So true, thanks to a NYC pothole, I now have one of those 'useless back parts' of which you speak!!! I should have used a ziptie. I bought a Radbot to replace my PBSF Stealth. If only I had known....
04-26-10 | 06:40 PM
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It's totally secure, in my experience. I have the LD1100 mounted to the back of a rack (not a Tubus Cosmo, but I don't think that matters) with the Cateye rack/reflector adapter.
Adapter -> rack = solid, obviously. It's held on with screws, after all.
Light -> adapter = solid.
Because my rack slightly overhangs the crossbar the adapter mounts to (a problem you don't have), I had to mount the adapter upside down, as it's impossible to slide the light into it otherwise. Even in this least-secure-of-all-possible arrangements, no problem.
Adapter -> rack = solid, obviously. It's held on with screws, after all.
Light -> adapter = solid.
Because my rack slightly overhangs the crossbar the adapter mounts to (a problem you don't have), I had to mount the adapter upside down, as it's impossible to slide the light into it otherwise. Even in this least-secure-of-all-possible arrangements, no problem.
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