Full length guards with rear light?

thiscocks

Hi,

I am building a steel touring bike and intend to put full length mudguards on. There are plenty of full length (SKS ect..) ones around but none with a rear light built in... Does anyone know where you can find some with the light?

Thanks,
Tim

schlepcycling

I removed the rear reflector from my SKS guards and fitted a light in it's place...works a treat.

thiscocks

Which light did you use, and how did you fix it? The only rear mudguard ones I can find are dynamo powered ones which I'd rather not get into..

Cheers

iga

I had the same dilema last year. Ended up getting one of these. Not cheap or retina searing power, but the best, perhaps the only one, I could find as I wanted a reflector built in as well.

http://www.jos-international.fr/index.p ... od=13&nb=2

I should point out that it has worked faultlessly all winter and still on its orignal batteries, mounted on full length SKS

andrew_s

That Jos light is the only battery mudguard light that I've seen (sometimes listed under the Spanninga brand name).
If you try using a regular small LED, like the Smart Superflash, it will end up pointing in the air unless you can rig up a wedge between it and the mudguard. If a light points up, it's pretty ineffective at anything other than close range.

thiscocks

Great that looks like the job. There is a more expensive one with 'Automatic' function.. not sure what this means?

Cheers,
Tim

amaferanga

I have a bracket that fixes where the reflector was on an SKS mudguard that I can mount just about any battery light to. It also fixes to racks. I've used it with a Smart 1W and Cateye lights and the lights can be set at the right angle (not pointing up). The bracket came with a bike I had built up, so I'm not sure where you get them from, but I suspect a few minutes with Google will find something similar.