Here's the deal. My great LBS owner got sent a 140L rear light by mistake by Dinotte. I expressed interest in it and so I went tonight to check it out.......I have a rear leaning seatpost and thus the dinotte points a few degrees down..........and when I took my bike for a spin I kept hitting the light with my huge muscular thighs..........

Anyone else have these two problems with the light?

My LBS owner and his mechanic suggested putting a vertical "phantom seatpost" behind the operational one and mounting the Dinotte on that.........or to put a seatpost on my rear rack and mount in on that.

https://www.terracycle.com/Merchant2/...ory_Code=Acmts

see: almost at the bottom of the page

What bike are you talking about?

https://sheldonbrown.com/harris/lighting/mounts.html

other options; maybe this fork mount would work on a seatstay???

Most complain of the mounting.
I found the opposite. It can be tilted any way you want it.

Thanks for the creative ideas

I don't think I have seen 10 wheels setup before. I am still trying to figure it out.
Anyhow, I cut a small piece of pvc pipe and zip tied it to the rear of my rack. It mounts just like their headlight does. The battery is thrown in a pannier. However, I may alter that somehow.

If you have a rack, it's easy, peasy. Just double-wrap the O-ring around a rack leg.


When I move it temporarily to this bike, I mount it on the outside of the leg.



Ordinarily, it lives on the Portland, where I mount it on the inside of the rack leg so it doesn't interfere with the panniers. It also clears the fender, although it's tough to tell from this angle.



In both cases, I velcro the battery pack to a rack cross-member, shown here on the Portland.

Seatpost mounting are for wussy!

So........it seems that there are many ways to get the 140L mounted well.........
My final question is about the waterproofness of the battery pack and the housing for the light?
(It took me months and months to choose my new commuter bike-so I am just a teensy bit OCD :-))

The Dinotte is Water Proof for rain riding. Just don't put it in a bucket of water.

Thanks. Thought so, just wanted to be sure.........

Wow you are up early..........

I usually save my riding in a bucket of water for the weekends during daylight hours.........(I know bad attempt at humor)............

I just got my 140L last night. It comes with a mounting piece that allows you to point the light any way you want. That's it on the right.

If you didn't get one and should have, call them up, they'll probably set you up for free. If the light is older and wasn't supposed to come with one, they'll sell you one for $14:
https://store.dinottelighting.com/sha...unt2=963599801

I took about a 2" length of 3/4" electrical conduit (plastic tubing) and taped it to my rack with electrical tape on the horizontal cross section at the top to the rack. The Dinotte light mounts to this piece of tubing and I have complete freedom on how to point it up/down.

I love my Dinotte lights. The products and the company are first rate.

All seatposts are "rear leaning"; I've never seen a bike with a seattube that angled forward. So if you mount it directly to the seatpost, of course it will point down. Dinotte provides a seatpost mount for the light so that it can be angled as you wish. See the photo in ItsJustMe's post; it's the thing to the right of the battery holder.