Anyone got one of those lights advertised on the right banner with 2200 lumens from faster by design, I got one, crazy bright and I think really good VFM – only issue I have is the handlebars mount is a bit rubbish. Basically it is an chunky o ring and the underneath of the lamp is hard plastic so doesn’t grip very well on the metal of handlebars and the lamp ends up pointing down on bumpy stuff.

Anyone made / bodged a handlebar mount that keeps it in place? Pics would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

Bit of old inner tube wrapped around bar?
Works for my (admittedly smaller) DX light.

Ajantom – I tired a bit of inner tube and it still swivelled.

There are no obvious way sof attaching it with zip ties either. suppose i could try and drill some holes in teh bottom for zip ties.

the problem is the lamp is quite heavy with the weight up high so it really has to be attached tightly.

Anyone else got any bright ideas?

adds not there at the moment, any chance of a link to the light?

I hung the lamp upside down. That worked on the road bike.
For the mtb, get a Hope bracket from CRC for £7.

There a big old lump of metal aren’t they, my m8 bought the one with the clamp on my advice & it’s solid. You could try asking Neninja if he could supply one, otherwise I’d suggest trying the hope mount I mention at the bottom of this thread (I doubt the Halford one would be sturdy enough).

Though as per above, ppl suggest bar tape will help improve the grip …

Neninja’s light’s link

Play – good idea with the upside down mounting, will try that – but also the hoep bracket – this one? [/url]
if yes – how do you attach the lamp to the bracket?

Zukemonster

Hi
The O-ring is fine on the road but not really up to the job off road which is why I now offer a solid QR mount option.

I can supply a solid mount or you can use the Hope mount which works really well. I have a Hope mount on my own light (fitted before I offered the option of the solid mount).

The light mount I can supply is this one –
http://www.magiclight.co.uk/handlebarmount.html

Neninja -how did you attach it to the hope mount?

Marionheck,

That’s the right bracket. Peel back the rubber on the existing mount and you’ll see a allen screw. Take that out, use the screw to fit it to the Hope mount. The Hope mount lines up really well with the light if you put it in the obvious position. The problem with that is the weight is off center, so it can still tilt fwd if you hit something big. If you put the light on the bracket the other way round there is still plenty of contact area and the light sits nice and centrally. It all makes sense when you get the bracket and take the old one off. It’s not as complicated as i’m making it sound.

Play – cheers that is great stuff. will get it sorted.

Thread Hijack – Danny, any more news on the new light?

Yes, it should be available from the end of March (it’s getting a few minor changes before going into full production – it should have about 15-20% extra output compared to the sample with changes to U2 emitters and new optics).

Genuine 1400 lumens from 2 x XM-L U2 emitters, light head 80g and very compact.

I just use a Hope mount on mine, had no issues with it rotating forwards or backwards, even with a cople of crashes and a bit of jumping thrown in.

Forgot to email you about the bar mount you sent with mine Danny, I think it’s for non-oversize bars as I cant do it up on my OS EA70 bars when the light is near the stem

Cheers for the update, look forward to seeing it

Steve – your light should have come with a mount like the one on the link I posted above which fit regular and over-size bars. I’ve been supplying the Magiclight mount since 4th Jan for all orders with the optional ‘solid mount’.

I included a different mount loose in the box free with earlier orders as it only fits smaller bars but you should have received the newer mount. Apologies if you received the wrong one.

No worries, I had a spare Hope one anyway.

On another note the lights are awesome, at least 3 hours on full power too – which is nice.

They’ve turned night riding into almost day time riding on descents, with plenty of light all around for nice & fast riding – considerably better than my mates Hope R4’s 😆

Genuine 1400 lumens from 2 x XM-L U2 emitters, light head 80g and very compact.

What’s all this then? Sounds interesting and I’m in the market for some lights…

Neninja?

+1 for the hope bracket….but I’ve modified it to use the supplied heavy mount clip. Unfortunately the supplied heavy mount gives zero adjustability once fixed on the bar, and so I have used the light side part of the “heavy mount” as intended, but took the slide on part of the other side of the mount off and mounted that on the hope part….just a matter of drilling out the top of the hope mount to match the raised rounded projection on the underside of the slide clip (see pictures below AFTER adapting)…..also took off some of the thickness of the round part for a snugger fit into the top of the hope bracket. Found a approx 11mm screw to match the original longer one and now have a very secure adjustable mount with the option to rotate forwards and backwards once hope clip opened, pivot side to side and to clip the light on/off.

Hope that’s helpful…….

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Battery pack fits snugly under stem….oh yeah, and it’s a stunningly good light as well!