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Generic Bike Light Mount

 Bike light mount.

These go by several different names and run about $2 - $5 depending where you get them. 

I got some of these several years back from China ....probably Aliexpress or whatever. 

These work great for mounting small LED Flashlights which i have been running for years as well. I upgraded to a rechargeable ANKER Bolder light. its bigger and heavier than my others but its really nice and a lot brighter. I found that this mount works well. I had to make a small shim out of a milk carton and found that you must run the mount backwards and under the bars to get the center gravity of the light so that it wont tilt down on you as you hit bumps. IT works really well and that setup is still cheaper than any bike specific light. Also...the flahlight can still be used as a flashlight. 


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