Hope lights & stem

fireheed
fireheed Posts: 55
edited December 2007 in MTB buying advice
What is the smallest stem you can run with one of the hope vision lights. I've read or heard somewhere that 80mm is the smallest without haveing to rotate the battery.
Also can you run oversize bars or do you need normal size?
Can anyone shed some light on this?

Cheers
Mike

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  • fireheed
    fireheed Posts: 55
    Bump.

    Someone must know something?
  • Brighty
    Brighty Posts: 119
    Dunno about the stem length thing, but the universal mount version (ie not the stem face plate mount version) comes with an adaptor making it fit either fat or thin bars.

    Brighty
  • steelo
    steelo Posts: 542
    You can use oversive bars as the clamp for the light comes with filler pads to suit the smaller 'regular' size bars. For oversize you just remove the extra pads.

    Stem length isn't really an issue (with regards mounting the velcro strap battery) as you can always strap the battery to the frame instead. Some people in my XC group use a battery extension lead and put the battery in their pocket. Dangerous if you fall off if you ask me, but hey-ho it's their choice!
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  • fireheed
    fireheed Posts: 55
    Sorry should have made it clear it's the stem mounted version i'd be going for. :oops:
    Cheers for the replies tho.
  • Brighty
    Brighty Posts: 119
    In that case you need to buy the right set for your bars, they do std and os, 2 different kits. The mounting is a part of a new stem face plate. You need to have a hope stem for it to fit to though, or i think they sell mounts for a couple of other manufactures separately, thomson and fsa i believe, any other stem will be incompatible. Also if your stem is less than 80mm you'll need to buy a 90deg mount as an extra too, as it's not as simple as strapping it on the other way round like it is with the universal mount. Also, I believe, unless you want an ugly looking face plate when you remove the lights, you'd have to swap face plates every time too.

    I'd say it would be much simpler to buy the universal mount which gives you a bar and a helmet mount, no stem incompatibility and plenty of battery mount options. Tis what i did.

    Brighty
  • Splasher
    Splasher Posts: 1,528
    Brighty wrote:
    Also, I believe, unless you want an ugly looking face plate when you remove the lights, you'd have to swap face plates every time too.

    I think the idea is that you leave the faceplate and light on throughout the winter (removing the battery for charging) and in the spring you swap the faceplate back.
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  • SRI
    SRI Posts: 125
    I have the bar mount and I'd recommend it over the stem mount.

    1. You can use it like the stem mount version; the battery pack is the same as the stem mount, hence it can still be velcro strapped under the stem (this is where I put it). Indeed there are two wires in the pack, one very short so there is no excess wire flapping around when mounting the battery under the stem.
    2. You can use the bar mount on either normal or oversize bars for no extra cost since the adapter comes with the lights.
    3. You get a helmet mount included so you can see whether you prefer to ride with the light on the bars or your head.
    4. If you also ride in the day and don't want something else on the bike to break when you crash or something else to clean then you can take the light quickly off.

    One possible bad thing about the light, but I've not found a problem is that it doesn't have any lateral movement, only vertical. This means if you have risers you have to position the light right next to the stem, helpfully the braket is offset such that you can position the light directly in the middle of the bars, above the stem.

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