Lights for Nitto racks

[Anne Paulson]

Probably some of you have those Nitto racks Rivendell sells. Great
racks. Front and rear both have a flat plate, with a hole facing
forward/backward, for (I assume) mounting a light.

Can anyone name a front light (dyno-powered or battery-powered) or a
rear battery-powered light that I could buy that comes with hardware
suitable for mounting on a flat plate like the Nitto has? I'm
mechanically challenged and can't figure out how to mount a light on
one of those racks. Except an IQ Cyo, which I think will soon grace my
touring bike. But that leaves rear lights or blinkies for my bike and
my son's beautiful apple green Rambouillet.

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[Jay in Tel Aviv]

The rack mounted tail lights that Peter White sells would fit if the
spacing is either 50 or 80 mm. Tel Aviv has a bike sharing program and
those are the lights mounted to their racks. Seem to work pretty good.

http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/b&m.asp

Scroll down the page to, you guessed it, "rack mounted tail lights".

Jay

[EricP]

Planet bike makes a bracket to mount on racks.  Put a bolt through one of the middle holes, and tighten it down with a nylock nut and washer on the inside of the rack.  It's this part - http://ecom1.planetbike.com/3108.html  Pretty sure most lights from Planet bike come with that bracket.  Otherwise your LBS might have one around to sell.  It will also fit lights from Portland Design Works and probably a number of other makers.

 

Was also able to mount a Supernova E3 tail light to the Nitto on my Sam Hillborne by just using one bolt and having the light offset. 

 

Otherwise it gets to be more of a hassle to get a light mounted on the rack.  Although it can be done.

 

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

[Jay in Tel Aviv]

So the Nitto racks have 1 hole, not ?
Wierd.
I this the page I linked has an adaptor for that too.

Jay

On Mar 17, 2:41 pm, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote:
> Planet bike makes a bracket to mount on racks.  Put a bolt through one of
> the middle holes, and tighten it down with a nylock nut and washer on the

> inside of the rack.  It's this part -http://ecom1.planetbike.com/3108.html

[Lisa]

Hi Anne,

I have the Nitto Big front rack with a flat plate as you describe.  I use the plate to mount a reflector -- I don't like having a light that far forward.

My headlight is a Planet Bike Blaze 2W, designed to clamp on a handlebar.  To mount my light on the rack, I use a Velo Orange small-diameter band clamp and a Nitto Lamp holder (link below) to create a place to clamp the handlebar mount.  This puts the light on the side of my rack in a good place that doesn't interfere with low-mount panniers, an Ortlieb handlebar bag, or even a Wald basket on the rack platform.

Photo of my bike with the light mounted on the rack (look in front, just below the basket):

http://tinyurl.com/7q2lt3q

Nitto Lamp holder link:

http://tinyurl.com/72z7qca

Lisa

[Peter Morgano]

Hmm I prefer the Gino Mount to the nitto one,  it is a little fatter and mounts through the mount rather than from the back like the nitto version.  Got mine on Amazon for 15 bucks.  The front part of my rack is occupied by the platrack. 

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[PATRICK MOORE]

A warning: I've had two rear blinkies mounted on one of those adaptors
fling themselves off the mount, hit the ground and explode after the
rear tire hit admittedly egregiously large (6" wide, 3" deep)
expansion cracks at 15+ mph. It seems that the moment or leverage of
the very rearward location makes that adaptor rather insecure.

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[jimD]

word (1) - Duct Tape

word (2) - Zip Ties

Perfect fastener enhancers for Fine Rivendell Bikes!

;>)
-JimD

[William]

Edelux mounted to the front:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/6981340279/in/photostream

I got the mount when I got the Edelux from Peter White. 

I run my bright rear blinkies on the seatstays.  But I also have a knog on the seattube, a blinky on my helmet and enough reflective clothing to handle the rest of project conspicuity. 

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[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Supernova E3 bracket that comes with the light from Peter White mounts solidly and securely with no fiddling at at.

On my Atlantis, from the front quarter:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37542512@N04/4815790104/in/set-72157624427413755

And head on:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37542512@N04/4815790868/in/set-72157624427413755/

And side view:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37542512@N04/4815789426/in/set-72157624427413755

Great light, excellent beam, mount has been tight through two tours.

For the rear, Peter White sells adaptor brackets to go from the Nitto racks single hole to the double screw mount that many tail lights have. There's a pic of it here (used on a Supernova dynamo taillight, but would work on any two hole light):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37542512@N04/4815790436/in/set-72157624427413755/

Should have dremeled off the excess on each end of the adaptor, but wanted to go ride....

Tom

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[Jim]

I got my planet bike bracket for my rear blinked from amazon.  Its been solid for me...and I've been pounding the crap out of it on my daily commute.

 

Jim in Boulder

[Ryan Ray]

I just purchased an origin 8 light mount for my Nitto M-12 and it was the wrong size. I had to drill a larger hole in it and add threads.

http://www.origin-8.com/?page_id=91&short_code=Eyelet+Stub+Light+Mount&cl1=LIGHTS+%26+REFLECTORS

I just used the handlebar mount that came with my Princeton Tec Eos and it works great.

- Ryan

[Minh]

Anne,

Not that complicated if you talked to Peter White he'd make sure you get the correct combination, but pretty much any light now will have some kind of fork-crown mount either with it or for a few bucks more.  Any of the fork-crown mounts will work with the nitto on the front.  alternatively if you can mount it on the side (and your nitto rack has a boss on the side) you could use an offset side mount like the one from boulder bicycles or you could use the Gino mount and then use any light that's meant for handlebar mounting.  

So first decide if front mount is what you want, then search for a light and see if the fork-crown mount will work for you.  I really like the one William showed, because it doesn't raise it as much, i might have to go with that if i ever upgrade from my perfectly-fine-but-not-as-pretty light to an edelux.

examples of mounts here http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/light-mounts.asp 

[Christian]

Anne

I've not read all the replies so you might have gotten the answer you wanted.  But here's my IQ Cyo mounted on my Nitto Mini--purchased from Rivendell.  Not sure what you meant when you said except for IQ Cyo so here goes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwmcmillen/6867520015/in/photostream

Christian

On Friday, March 16, 2012 11:11:54 PM UTC-4, Anne Paulson wrote:

[judy richmond]

I use a Planet Bike mounted on that rack. One reasons I like it is
because it has one of the best reflectors of any blinky type light I
have found.
http://www.rei.com/product/776955/planet-bike-rack-blinky-5-rear-light.

[PATRICK MOORE]

FWIW, I test-mounted two blinkies at the rear of my new Fargo rack
and, sho' 'nuff, one bounce off after fewer than 5 miles. The other
one remained -- so far.

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[Andrew]

Anne,

I used one of those dreamy shiny stainless steel clamps with the rubber inserts, maybe they're designed to mount racks to forks or seat stays, but I used one around an LED flashlight, and secured it to my WALD basket with a single bolt and nut and a washer. I bet you could do the very same thing, securing to one of the side flanges that are pre-threaded. It works GREAT and is easy to turn on or off. I use a small single-battery (CR123) light from FourSevens.

I think the clamps are called "P" clamps at the dreaded velo-orange, but RBW sells 'em, and includes them with rack kits. Here you go, they call them NItto Band Clamps:

http://www.rivbike.com/product-p/rh3.htm

- Andrew, B-erkeley

[Minh]

FYI, you can get similar but not as pretty as the nitto clamps at home depot or plumbing supply places for a buck or two.