Attaching Lezyne Micro to a Barfly direct??

londoncommuter

pppp

fenix

Looks like you could run a zip tie down under the centre of the Barfly ? Then with that loop you can put the silicon strap through ? Maybe you'll need something to take up the slack ? Its a bit messy, Whats taking up space on the bars ?

londoncommuter

Fenix wrote:

Whats taking up space on the bars ?

Nothing, I'm just being a tart and don't want to scruffy them up with something as offensive as a light!

I got the Barfly Direct to avoid having 5mm of Barfly attachment. I think I need some sort of therapy for this. What makes it worse is this is for a winter bike.....

fenix

Just whack the light on the bars then - maybe a wrap of insulation tape around to protect from any scuffs.

Having the light out in front on a twangy thing isnt a great plan I reckon.

Its dark most of the time anyway....

pilot_pete

Sugru? Put a big blob on the underside of the mount and push the body of the light into it. Trim/ clean all the excess that has 'squidged' out off and leave to set.

You have a couple of choices - you could adhere the light directly with the Sugru to the mount (to do this you will probably need to leave the mount/ bike upside down to allow the Sugru to set with gravity helping to keep the light in place).

The alternative would be to stick some tape such as helicopter tape or even sellotape along the length of the light body where it will be stuck. Mount it into the Sugru and allow to set as previously, but this time you could then remove the tape from the light body and carefully from the Sugru (or just trim it off with a sharp knife).

What this will in effect have done is made you a rubber mount for the light to butt up against. A small cable tie around the light and the bar fly would secure the light in position, but you could remove it by cutting the tie when required.

I did this with my Di2 'A' Junction box to mount it under my stem. If you are not familiar with it, they come with a thick rubber strap (which is ugly!) to strap the box to the underside of the stem. The box comes with a little plastic mount curved to fit up against the stem and the box clicks into the mount a bit like a bike light. I simply used Sugru to stick the mount to the stem underside (leaving it upside down whilst it set).

What this does is give a rubber mount between the two items being stuck. The Sugru sets like rubber but also adheres to the two parts thus bonding them.

You could easily pull the light off the Sugru even once it has set and the remnants would clean off easily enough, so it is permanent, but removable if that makes sense! I would however fit a small cable tie once it had set to ensure the weight of the light and bumps in the road did not cause the bond to fail. I am not saying it would - my junction box is very light so not an issue, but I don't know the shear loads that your light could exert and you wouldn't want to find out as your light bounces off down the road!

PP

londoncommuter

Thanks for that, I'd not come across Sugru before. The idea of custom making something is cool. The light needs regular charging so would need to come off all the time so the "Sugru mount" is a better idea.

Just trawling around the net though I've also come across the wonderful (and totally unknown to me) world of 3D printing. Looks brilliant with people churning out whatever custom bits they want. Like this:

http://stlfinder.com/model/lezyne-micro ... et/4207191

Anyone fancy designing and building me one.......

pilot_pete

The light could stay attached if you used a USB female to male lead. All you would have to do is remove the cap, attach the cable and attach the other end to the USB power outlet...

The key would be ensuring it was mounted leaving enough room to remove/ replace the cap in situ and buying a long enough lead.

The weakness of you 3D printed design would be how it attaches to the bar fly. Looking at the pictures I would assume it would need a screw to the central bar of the bar fly? Bearing in mind how tight those mounts grip the light body and the force required to fit/ remove them I suspect the bar fly would break.

I think you need to incorporate the light mount and the barfly into one 3D printed item so that the mount is solidly attached to the bar fly part if you see what I mean?

PP

bbrap

Could you use a plastic pipe clip (the sort that you screw to a wall to hold copper pipe), Drill a hole through the centre of the barfly mount and attach pipe clip underneath with a small nut and bolt (use a nylock nut). Then just snap the micro into the clip. If you wanted you could butcher the micro holder to the same effect.

fenix

http://formcard.com/

This might be of use too.

londoncommuter

I've just ordered a rear micro mount as that doesn't have the curve going the "wrong" way so I'll have the clip effectively. Tricky to attach it is tricky as I think PP is probably right that the Barfly will probably not be strong enough.