Does anyone else have a Magene L508 (or Magicshine, which is identical) radar/tail light?
It's very much like a Garmin Varia and uses the same quarter turn mount BUT, for what I assume are copyright reasons, the mount is offset by 90° relative to the one used by a Varia...
Anyway, I'm trying to find a seatpost mount for it. It was supplied with one but I want to use it on multiple bikes. Ideally, such a mount needs to take the seatpost angle into account to a certain degree otherwise it would just point towards the ground.
There are plenty of solutions for a Varia and I'm just wondering whether anyone knows of a "puck" which can convert a Garmin mount into a Magene/Magicshine compatible (like two back-to-back mounts but with one offset by 90°)
Failing that, any other inventive solutions?
Most it the aftermarket garmin/ wahoo type mounts have four threaded holes under the puck so it’s easy to rotate them by 90 degrees.
Yeah, I tried a couple of after-market mounts - of the ones I tried, only one I was able to offset and it took some botching.
Ideally, what I'm after is something I can semi-permanently mount on the back of the radar (so Magene > Garmin orientation) so I can get any Garmin compatible mount. My bikes have three different seatpost designs/sizes (aero + 30.9 + 31.6...) plus I'd like the flexibility to mount on a saddle bag (normal and backpacking roll-up type) so rather than butchering multiple mounts, I just need to a "converter puck" to the back of the Magene.
I could, theoretically, cut off the existing mount and glue a Garmin mount on the back in it's place but I'm guessing I'm not the only person wanting this so someone, somewhere probably has a 3d printed solution already....
I use saddle rails ones for mounting varia and Garmin on the track bike. These allow 90 degree rotation with ease. About £12 from Amazon. My seatposts are aero integrated, so saddle rail is a good alternative.
GPLama's video on Youtube about the Wahoo radar shows these types of puck to correct the different rotations
GPLama's video on Youtube about the Wahoo radar shows pucks to cope with the different rotations