Light mount

 Is your handlebar too crowded?

Due to the new Italian vehicle code bicycles are now required to have lights front and rear, on all the time. We bought some cheap rechargeable ones that strap on with rubber bands.

Bur Zio Lorenzo already had a computer mount on one side of the stem and a bell on the other. Don't laugh, you need a bell on our island where there are no sidewalks but hordes of tourists waddling along the narrow streets looking at smart-phones or gawking at shop windows instead of where they are walking! 

But where to put it on the already crowded handlebar? Zio kept banging into the thing when it was strapped onto the bar outboard from the computer mount.

Here's what he came-up with. A piece of old handlebar (you could use a piece of PVC pipe of the same diameter) cut off, plugged with a standard bar plug at the bottom and covered with a bit of old inner tube at the top.

A hole drilled through the side lets you strap the thing onto the bottom of your stem with a zip-tie. If your stem's not flat on the underside, you can shape the tube with a file, making a concave surface so the tube is stable. Then just strap-on the light with it turned so you can easily reach the power button. It's easily removed for recharging.

Out back things were easy as our seat packs have a loop sewn onto the back just for this purpose.