No I have white LEDs at the front & red LEDs at the back (to be seen or noticed)
Now I'm trying to imagine what your bike looks like. Switching other lights off to make your yellow side indicators more noticeable, is an excellent precaution. I'll have to find more room on the handlebar for another switch, if I want indicators. I miss indicators... they came in very handy years ago, when I had a motorcycle.
) was Araldited to the mount...
I will of course attempt to bribe my way out using Coca-Cola, and if that didn't work, the red running light is easily unclipped and I could gaffa tape over the reflectors, or tear them off dramatically on the roadside while being tasered.
What about suoerglue and baking soda? A couple of years back I got a suoerglue kit from a local tool shop, filler powder and bottle of glue, worked a treat, gap filling and strong. It ran out, was told when I went for more, the makers had closed down, they had bought the last of the stock, now sold out. In the last few months I've seen several YouTube videos pop up in the news feed about using Sodium bicarbonate as the filler, seems to work a treat, can be built up in layers.Now I'm trying to imagine what your bike looks like. Switching other lights off to make your yellow side indicators more noticeable, is an excellent precaution. I'll have to find more room on the handlebar for another switch, if I want indicators. I miss indicators... they came in very handy years ago, when I had a motorcycle.
Well, the Araldite has set. While trying to angle the flasher mount using very tight zipties, the Araldite holding the reflector to the mirror back broke - the mirror back is quite soft, Araldite works better with hard close fitting surfaces which don't change shape too much under force, such happens when struggling trying to tighten zipties to adjust the orientatio of a flashing light mount, to an impossible angle. Still, it was easier to fettle the mount on with the reflector off the bike.
Araldite didn't have much surface area to stick - the mount is only 8mm wide, so is the reflector edge, and at 90 degrees rotation, that's a tiny and wholly inadequate square area... so I increased the surface area using some old bits I found at the bottom of a drawer: a thick rubber washer from something, was Arandited inside a nylon tube end from an old chair, table or who knows what from long long ago... Then filed down to form an angle so the light is pointed at traffic viewing from behind the bike, and steel washer (might not be stainless
It aint pretty!
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..and Frankenstein's plastic (for the reflector's edge) was Araldited to that - I have no clamps for that angle, pressed together using a very tightly tightened tiny ziptie looped through one o fthe holes, and left to gravity and time to set.
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...and finally my right hand side red constant running light is firmly Araldited on - I increased the 8mm edge of the reflector using Araldited together ziptie bits stacked up because, every extra bit of surface area helps Araldite.
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It feels pretty sturdy, but for extra security, there is invisible nylon thread also holding it on, in case the Araldite breaks. Which it may well might! Who am I kidding? It's gonna break!
This'll do for now, I'll see what the rozzers make of it - "The darn thing is pointed backwards! Look, it's not even flashing! It isn't visible from the front occifer!" Is what I'll tell them.
Than you, that's very interesting indeed, and I'm sure superglue with baking soda will be useful.
Cool! I hadn't heard of that either, looks very useful. I have oodles of broken plastic objects I could repair...
I have pencils and bicarbonate of soda, and when I've bought cheapo Poundland superglue... I'm going to see how strong a joint I can make between two 0.8mm thick aluminium sheets at right angles. If strong enough, I could make a solid fully waterproof hi-viz lightweight aluminium rain cover, to velcro over my rear rack battery and mount, instead of the two "Waterproof" rucksack covers I'm using presently.
Something is working - out of the hundreds of cars which passed by during my 50 minute rush hour journey home, only 10 passed uncomfortably close, which is a massive difference to usual. I was allowed a LOT more room than I am accustomed to, by vehicles of all types. Drivers did a lot of skulking around behind me, looking for space to overtake. Trouble is, I haven't done anything incrementally, so don't know what worked best: Flashing and horrifying to behold 1800LM red rear light, end-bar mirrror red reflectors facing backwards, or right end-bar mirror backwards facing red constant LED running light?
Your trailer is a much more sensible colour than mine, which is deepest inky unhelpful at night black - I would have used it (now covered with reflective stickers) last night to haul home even more pumpkins before the frost destroys them, but that trailer in rush hour traffic is a driver's ire magnet, therefore foolishly I suffered agony instead, heaving around an extremely heavy rucksack by bike. I had planned a late night or early morning trailer haul, but the temperatures are too damned low. Until I man up a bit...
The front and back top bars are just pipe insulting tube, with red gaffer tape around it. Put on to cushion the chrome work on my 5ft giraffe unicycle when I was transporting it. Can't you put some reflective tape on the trailer frame.
I've recently stuck oodles of (2M) red reflective on the back, (3M) orange on the sides and small green reflective patches at the corners. The trailer lights I will probably add later via a 12v converter from the ebike battery - two or three, haven't decided which yet. It's quite rare that I tow trailers by night, but around harvest time that can't be avoided.
Every time I buy a new phone, it's double or some multiple of the megapixels of the previous - on one hand, you don't want to set lower resolution photos for the camera app, in case you get that million dollar snap of the government unzipping their human suits to reveal their true lizard forms... but you don't want humongous photos eating up your phone memory and data plan either. And emailing might not be possible in a cellphone signal blackspot, but of course screen resolution keeps growing too
This tape does appear to have good adhesion on flat surfaces, but it's not terribly bendy tape, so I struggled getting it to stick around tubes. Secured with zipties, in case hot weather melts the glue... but what I really need to do sometime, is dissolve the tape adhesive with oil and use stronger and more permanent glue.
