Front light bracket for Racktime TopIt front rack

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Motivationstock, the Aventon Level.2 front light mounts to the stemthe handlebar area gets cluttered quicklyI first tried moving it to the suspension fork arch, but it would get blocked by front panniersthen I tried simply extending it below the stemhowever, this would still be blocked whenever I have my pogies installedI moved the mount backwards on the stem with my old extension bar, but it would simply pitch forward under its own weight, & it still would get blocked by my pogiesI disregarded this solution for a while, thinking that I wanted to keep the ability to dismount the front rack when I didn't need itbut in practice, I never dismounted the front rack for months, so it might as well be considered a permanent fixture of the bike nowthis position isn't occluded by luggage on the front or sides of the pannier & is independent of my pogiesthis position may get soaked by rain & road debris from the tire, so I simply hot glue/potted a strain relief area around where the wires enter the case of the lightCommercial productsheet metal constructionnote the actual light mount itself projects only a small amountthis is problematic since your light, like mine, may have near 0 range to adjust nod angleRev 1I underestimated how much range I would needout of laziness, I didn't print R2 & instead made up the difference with printed M5 spacers & a longer screw to avoid interfering the light with the bracketwithout the spacers, the light points barely in front of the bikeRev 2the front rack naturally pitches about 45 deg downward from horizontal, so we need to counteract thisASM to verify pitch angle adjustment range before interference with a mockup of the Aventon front light – it can nearly balance out to levelHardware required for R1 & R2qty 3 M5 locknut8 mm across flats, 5 mm tallqty 2 M5 x 10-14 mm CBORE or button headto attach bracket to rackqty 1 M5 x 20-40 mmto attach light to bracketPrintingneither of R1, R2 require supports