{"id":613,"date":"2008-09-22T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/22\/remounting-the-busch-and-muller-lumotec-iq-fly-plus\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T01:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T01:43:00","slug":"remounting-the-busch-and-muller-lumotec-iq-fly-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/22\/remounting-the-busch-and-muller-lumotec-iq-fly-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Remounting the Busch and Muller Lumotec IQ Fly Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5j5ng0MI\/AAAAAAAAA_U\/wMZLUKOF_8A\/s1600-h\/100_2416.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5j5ng0MI\/AAAAAAAAA_U\/wMZLUKOF_8A\/s400\/100_2416.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248656810904178882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As I posted last week I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/robonza.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/review-busch-and-muller-lumotec-iq-fly.html\">Busch and Muller Lumotec IQ Fly Plus<\/a> which is super bright. However the mount that came with it wouldn&#8217;t work with my setup, which is cantis. I tried just using a longer bolt with some chainring spacers but it did not work very well, it did not hold the fender very securely.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped by the local shop to get a headlight mount, but no such luck.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to fabricate one out of a rear rack strut:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5jm3-ksI\/AAAAAAAAA_M\/RLMSQLmzQUQ\/s1600-h\/100_2423.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5jm3-ksI\/AAAAAAAAA_M\/RLMSQLmzQUQ\/s400\/100_2423.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248656805872964290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Only problem with that mount was it pushed the fender down to low and  would hitting the tire.<\/p>\n<p>While I was looking at it, I decided to drill a hole in the fender and mount it directly to that. The light is not very heavy and I couldn&#8217;t think of a reason not to try it.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5kQEc-XI\/AAAAAAAAA_c\/eIbA5MQNl9A\/s1600-h\/100_2414.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SNb5kQEc-XI\/AAAAAAAAA_c\/eIbA5MQNl9A\/s400\/100_2414.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248656816931142002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While I was at it, I switched the Tiagra STI lever out for a bar con. I have to say the bar con is the best deal going in bike shifters. For $59 you get two levers, 2 cables, 2 sets of housing, down tube cable stops, and cable ends. Plus they last forever. One step closer the remaking the old <a href=\"http:\/\/i62.photobucket.com\/albums\/h85\/boulderjoe\/bikes\/bianchi.jpg\">commuter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted last week I got a Busch and Muller Lumotec IQ Fly Plus which is super bright. However the mount that came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}