Thanks for all the input. For now, I have a left side nitto light mount on the way. When the local bike co-op opens back up I'm going to sift through the parts bin and try the centerpull brake arm hack. Maybe the light can get far enough forward to clear the basket/tire and I can play around with mounting left or right side.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:39 PM Peter White <peterjwh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's only been a very few years that we've had sufficiently bright > emitters to allow a wide beam to be projected that was bright enough to be > useable. Back when Singer and Herse were building bikes the beams had to be > very narrow to be at all useful. So there was no meaningful shadow, on > either side. Mounting the light on the left made perfect sense. > > These days, mounting the light on either side creates a huge and obnoxious > shadow. If at all possible, mount the headlight on center. Why waste > photons illuminating your tire? > > PJW > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:19 AM 'Eric Norris' via RBW Owners Bunch < > rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> The great French constructeurs (Singer, Herse, etc.) mounted the light on >> the left side of the small front rack or on the front fender. Never on the >> righthand side. Trust the experts. >> >> --Eric Norris >> campyonly...@me.com >> www.campyonly.com >> campyonlyguy.blogspot.com >> >> On Apr 20, 2020, at 7:57 AM, ted <ted.ke...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> When faced with this situation I’ve gone with mounting on the left side. >> This lights up more pavement since one rides on the right side of the lane. >> However mounting on the right would give shadow free illumination of the >> road edge, so you might prefer that. >> This is why I’m so disappointed they stoped putting the plate with a >> mounting whole on the front center of the marks and mini front racks. >> Personally, I really really want my front light dead center. Not having the >> tire centered in the beam drives me crazy. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/725bdd34-806a-4b27-8b78-1ac1ee7f7ecc%40googlegroups.com >> . >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/C5D44A40-2A9A-42D3-9E0E-79A447C4969A%40me.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/C5D44A40-2A9A-42D3-9E0E-79A447C4969A%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Peter White > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/_VC9ESgLTfM/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BD%3DXm84fzqzB%3DAqKtPe75%2BF4NbQfAAfnsU1YvaWx783n8VFyQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BD%3DXm84fzqzB%3DAqKtPe75%2BF4NbQfAAfnsU1YvaWx783n8VFyQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAA34uFbOoEfDEU3KXi%2BiO2djFppvZ2zwieNHXTHp8%3DYv7jv-cg%40mail.gmail.com.
