Light Mounts From Brake Parts

I have been slowly putting my new Velo Orange Randoneur  bike together over the past year.   I have not been in a hurry to get it on the road because I have other good bicycles to ride and as a result I  have not been motivated to get this one going.  About a year ago I saw a picture somewhere on the net where a person had used a piece of a center pull brake to make a mount for a headlight that attached to the front rack on the bicycle.  I liked this idea.  I used one on the new bike using the backing plate from an old Dia Compe centerpull brake.  Recently Bike Tinker had a post about such light mounts.  You can read that post here:

   http://www.biketinker.com/2011/projects/brake-arm-light-mount-extension/ 

Here is a picture of my setup attached to a Velo Orange front rack.  I may move the light over to the left hand side of the rack.

Bday weekend rides

I had a couple of good rides this weekend.  Sat I did a ride with my bike club the Pennyrile area Cyclists.  Five of us went out on a 50 mile ride starting in Madisonville Ky.  We had some light rain for the first half of the ride or so.  Also had some head wind.  I ended up peeling off and heading for home a different way Getting about 64 miles in all.  Sun afternoon Brad, David H. and I rode one of our loops from Nortonville.  We had some light drizzle at times.  I rode my fixed gear bike for the first time in a while.  It was a blast to charge up the hills as hard as I could and then spin down fast on the other side.  We got in about 20 miles on this ride.

Birthday ride.

Today is my birthday so I thought I would celebrate it by going for a ride.  I rode from my house in Nortonville Ky to Princeton Ky .  I met the family there at a pizza resturaunt that we enjoy.  The ride basically followed US 62 the whole way.  Traffic was light today.  And the weather was beautiful.   Blue sky and puffy white clouds.  There are several good sized hills along this route.  And they were enjoyable to ride up and fly down.  The ride was about 30 miles.  My bike of choice for this ride was my Campy Denali.  I ended up having some front derailer shifting issues.  It did not like going into the big ring.  I will have to look at that and see what is going on.

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