Lights, lights, lights

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PATRICK MOORE

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Sep 1, 2011, 5:29:06 PM9/1/11
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Messing around today with various dynamo bits and pieces.

1. Home made front rack light bracket, laboriously carved from 20X5 mm
aluminum stock. (OK, OK, it's crude, I know, but it's *mine.* The
badly exposed photo makes it look rougher than it is.)
2 & 3. Epic Trike all-in-one bottle 'n' LED lamp (with blinking
standlight) AND with remote on/off control. Too bad it's all plastic.
4. NOS Sanyo Dynapower bb dyno, thanks to Dave Porter who also ground
off the unneeded bottle dyno braze ons on the 1958 Herse.

I have a Cyo on order thanks to a fellow lister that will go well with
the Sanyo.

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RIV #3 LIGHT STRUT.jpg
TRIKE LED LAMP CUM BOTTLE WITH REMOTE 1.jpg
TRIKE LED LAMP CUM BOTTLE WITH REMOTE 2.jpg
SANYO

PATRICK MOORE

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Sep 1, 2011, 5:30:42 PM9/1/11
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SANYO

Ely Rodriguez

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Sep 2, 2011, 1:08:08 AM9/2/11
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Is that just a regular road bike with a rack mounted to it with P-clamps?
I really like that.
Any wobbling? or criticism?
I really want to try that with my steel road bike, putting a small/medium rando bar bag in the front.
Maybe mounting a light as well.
I've made a front light mount like that as well, just not as carved. Really pretty, I like the lines.

PATRICK MOORE

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Sep 2, 2011, 9:55:54 AM9/2/11
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It's a 2003 custom road bike built for 559 or 571 wheels (currently
559X31). It handles fine with less than 10 lb in front (it will carry
25 easily in the back). The front rack is a VO Randonneur rack, the
rear a custom. The light strut needs some polishing and smoothing --
it's hard aluminum! The new bag will go on this rack. Fenders (flat
Civias) coming. The bike, sans bags, pump and bottles with with lights
and racks weighs 21 1/2 lb.

I've got another very similar Riv that is unburdened with racks or
anything else except a single bottle cage.

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PATRICK MOORE

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Sep 2, 2011, 9:56:41 AM9/2/11
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And no wobbling: I had a VO ss strut that wobbled considerably, which
is why I took a shot at my own.

Scott G.

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Sep 2, 2011, 5:15:30 PM9/2/11
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Patrick, I included the Cyo official mount for the fork crown
and the VO mount that fits on the rack eyelet.

Whilst on light mountology, anyone mount a Supernova E3
to Nitto m12 ?, did you the multimount or some other widget.

Scott

Thomas Lynn Skean

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Sep 2, 2011, 6:19:48 PM9/2/11
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Hi!

Do you know of a good place on the web to order smallish quantities of the kind of aluminum stock you used for your light?

Yours,
Thomas Lynn Skean

PATRICK MOORE

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Sep 2, 2011, 6:27:07 PM9/2/11
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No; I bought a 6' length at True Value. I could have used 1 cm wide
stock instead; I bought the 2 cm stuff for another project.

IIRC, the 2 cm stock was about $8 to $10 for 6'.

Tell ya what: send me your address and I'll send you 6".

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EricP

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Sep 2, 2011, 9:28:48 PM9/2/11
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Another idea would be to lop down a worn out chainring. Mounting bolt
holes are pre-drilled. A friend did that to mount a light to the
small Nitto front rack that Rivendell sells. I like it enough, may
have to blatantly copy the idea.

On Sep 2, 5:27 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No; I bought a 6' length at True Value. I could have used 1 cm wide
> stock instead; I bought the 2 cm stuff for another project.
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> IIRC, the 2 cm stock was about $8 to $10 for 6'.
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> Tell ya what: send me your address and I'll send you 6".
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Thomas Lynn Skean
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> > Do you know of a good place on the web to order smallish quantities of the kind of aluminum stock you used for your light?
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> > Yours,
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