The problem: Brompton front light bracket is breaking (AGAIN!) where the vibrations work harden the metal and it cracks. The light fitting is also stupendously low, so a replacement bracket and a higher fitting are in order
The solution: Front dynamo light now mounted on the bars and everything still works 😀
Here’s what I did.
Cut down replacement light bracket and drilled a hole in it.
Undid the allen bolt securing the bars and put light bracket in between the ‘squashy’ bits of the stem. Also put in a tap washer I’d cut down and made the hole bigger so that the bolt could still compress the ‘squashy stem bits’ and hold the light bracket securely. Had to bend the bracket back quite a bit so that the light would foul when the Brompton is folded
Next filed som bits of plastic off the light itself so I could move it to the right angle and lengthened the wires to the front hub dynamo. The cables to the rear light were long enough as they were. Cable tied the cables down the stem and left a bit of the loop by the hinge for the fold.
Wired everything up and tested – it all still worked – yay!
I used to have the same BM light. Of course it doesn’t fit under the front bag. So I took a grinder and ground off all of the reflector on the top and sides until it looked like an upturned ‘U’, fitted fine with a beast of a bracket after that. Not sure I have a photo any more.
I also mounted a Nordlicht dynamo on the front fork, in the days before narrow SON hubs.