mounting auxiliary lights

[Chris Krok]

> From: Zachariah Mully > Subject: Re: Driving Lights For KLR > > J- > Must not be too many trees in TX? The problem that I have with > the handguard mounts is that the lights are toast after one close call > with a tree, or perhaps one good off road fall. Then again I've only seen > pics, so knowing BigCee stuffs, they are probably very well made. Not so > sure about the lights themselves, though.

I've had some pretty good crashes with the lights on (one big enough to bend the bars), and they remain unscathed. The lights are mounted inboard of the hash marks on the wind deflectors, and that seems to be enough. I once went down in deep sand, and the light pivoted back on its mount. On the other hand, a hard object like a tree might be a little less gentle. We have a few trees around here, but I usually ride around them. I'm sure there are plenty of crash situations that would damage them, but you could say that about nearly any other part of the bike, too. Krokko/Big Cee -- Dr. J. Christopher Krok John Lucas Adaptive Wind Tunnel Caltech MS 205-45, Pasadena, CA 91125

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

At 2:47 AM +0000 7/30/08, Chris R wrote:

>I was also wondering if there is an easy way to mount them >to the forks just above the boots?

On my Tengai, I mounted L-brackets to the lower triple clamp and then mounted the lights to the L-Brackets. Mark

[Carlos Rigdon]

Anyone have a good way to mount driving light to a set of PD nerf bars no Welding on the bars ! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Greg May]

Hi Carlos, I've used Nutserts for years on electrical panels, they're simple to install, cheap and plently strong for what you need. I assume that you are are in the US so I included below a link to a kit from Harbour Freight, here in Canada the cheapest place I've seen the kits was at Princess Auto. You can buy the nutserts themselves when you need replacements from the above mentioned or at most major fastener retails. Basically they are installed the same as a rivit but rather then leaving a rivit behind fastening two pieces of metal fastened together the piece left behing is threaded to accept a bolt...hope this helps and have a great day......Greg

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