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Peter White  
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 More options Nov 12 2012, 12:40 pm
From: Peter White <peterjwh...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:40:04 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Nov 12 2012 12:40 pm
Subject: Re: Suggestions on protecting Dynamo light from theft?
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Pitlock has bolts for certain types of fork crown headlight mounts. You
need one to lock the mount to the crown, and another to lock the headlight
to the mount. If you're using the B&M CYO mount with the Edelux, this will
work. If you already have Pitlocks, we can order the bolts from Germany
with your existing Pitlock code.

Another solution, which I don't have yet, but will by the end of the year,
are bolts sold by Busch & Müller that use the TORX system, a T20 wrench,
instead of an allen wrench. That will slow down most thieves, and only cost
$8.00, plus the cost of the TORX wrench. But once they know what the bolt
needs, they can get a T20 wrench and come back for the light, if you're
always leaving the bike in the same place. For that, the Pitlock is ideal.

PJW

On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:27:04 AM UTC-5, Ty Smith wrote:

> Hey Everyone!

> Just got my lighting set-up running perfectly on my Brevet bike, which
> is a Salsa Casseroll. Edelux light up front and B&M Seculite in the
> rear. Absolutely love it, and now want to have this same set up on my
> main commuter, a Bike Friday Tikit, as well as my shopping/Cargo bike,
> which is a converted Specialized mountain bike.

> Though I never leave my folding bike outside, and my rando bike only
> with a group of other rando bikes at a control on a brevet. I do lock
> up my shopping bike. It was my first commuter bike and I have locking
> skewers on everything. But there are no locking skewers for the
> mountain bolts for a dynamo headlight, at least none that I know of.

>  So I am worried that if I put a nice Edelux on the front of that
> bike, it would be easy to steal.

> On of the local bike shops I go to suggested putting silicone caulking
> in the bolt hole once I have secured the light. I can see how that
> would work, but it would be very difficult to adjust that light,
> should I hit a bump and it move, or I need to remove it for service.

> Any suggestions out there?

> Thanks,

> Ty
> --
> http://thecrazyrandonneur.wordpress.com/


 
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