My front light was stolen off my bike last night, while we were inside a pub. Very annoying. But I'd only left it on the bike because it's a faff to remove and replace it, and the rubber band had already split so I didn't want to exacerbate things. The thief just ripped the light off, and the fitting will be damaged so I really don't know why they bothered. I suppose it's useable as a torch now. But I want a replacement which can be easily clipped on and off, like bike lights used to. So many stupid rubber band fittings now; I've had one fall off and smash because the band snapped. I've seen loads of broken lights in the road because bands have snapped. Are there any good lights now that clip on and off easily?
Moon lights do & normally come with a decent array of fittings.
The Ravemen light I have also does, but not sure if they all use the same clamp.
Cateye do as well I think.
My ravemen has a clip. I have a garmin varia for the rear which is a garmin 90 degree twist mount.
Sometimes what's perceived as theft is simply mindless vandalism.
Don't want to spend too much, around £30 or so. It's only for commuting. 400 lumens seems to be enough, that was the one stolen. Problem is that many of the lower priced lights come with stupid rubber band fittings. Perhaps because the manufacturers know they will break and the lights lost or damaged, so they can sell more lights.
Sometimes what’s perceived as theft is simply mindless vandalism.
It was probably more a case of the fact that it wasn't nailed down. People will steal anything they can.
https://www.merlincycles.com/moon-meteor-rechargeable-front-bike-light-157551.html
https://www.merlincycles.com/cateye-ampp-400-usb-rechargeable-front-light-163405.html
https://www.merlincycles.com/magicshine-allty-400-front-bike-light-298958.html
https://www.merlincycles.com/cateye-ampp-500-usb-rechargeable-front-light-163411.html
https://www.merlincycles.com/ravemen-lr500s-usb-rechargeable-front-light-153370.html
https://www.merlincycles.com/moon-rigel-lite-rechargeable-front-light-239501.html
Fill yet boots. Plenty of options out there
Cateye volt 300
Clips on and off easily
Spare mounts available, if you have several bikes
Rechargeable
Battery unscrews, and spares are available
https://www.cateye.com/intl/products/headlights/HL-EL460RC/
Knog Blinder Pro 600 is £35 at Biketart and clips into its mount.
https://www.biketart.com/products/knog-blinder-pro-600-front-light
Not rubber bands but not a full mount either. Works perfectly well for me and is easy enough to take off and stop it getting nicked.
Planet-x have loads for buttons too.
£30 Cateye one from Halfords on my commuter. Slides off one handed in an intstant when I stop somewhere (have had one nicked). I also prefer using AA rechargeable batteries
Changed all my rubber band mounts to GoPro bolt ones. I’ve stem mounts for a couple of bikes which bolt on in front of the stem and an actual stem plate with an integrated GoPro mount on another (Burgtech) so the GoPro fittings become bolted to the bikes directly. I think the GoPro fittings on the lights themselves were meant for Lezyne lights, but seem to work with MTBBatteries and magic shine stuff.
Avoid Lezyne. All rubber bands that don't work very well to boot
Thanks for the replies. I thought the CatEye ones all had rubber band fittings but apparently not.
Hope, and Exposure.
Hope uses a 1/4 turn string loaded bayonet into a bracket that's bolted on.
Exposure uses a dovetail shaped slider / groove with a spring loaded pin to lock in place.
So both lights solid on the bike, easy to remove when you want to.
Batteries on Hope are velcro strapped on. Exposure are self contained in the light.
I'm assuming it's a light to see where you're going, not just a 'marker' light.
(For marker lights you can't go wrong with Exposure Trace / TraceR. Yes the brackets are rubber bungee based. But you just unclip the light from the C shaped bracket. And the lights themselves are lovely bits of engineering. Ohhh and British made too.