How use a flashlight for a bicycle headlight

Step 4: Improvements/Variations

Use velcro straps to hold the flashlight instead of rubber bands if you're going to be riding in the dark a lot. Velcro straps won't break after repeated exposure to your sweaty head.

Use sticky velcro tape and put one piece on the helmet and its mate on the flashlight. Then you can just stick it on and go.

Or you could just keep a few extra rubber bands around...

You can do the same thing to hold the light on the handlebar stem of your bike if you don't want it on your head. It is probably better for racing-type bikes because of the crappy position in which you have to hold your head to see where you are going.

I ride a recumbent so the top of the helmet is fine for me.

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Neat. I did something similar with two small lights & epoxy. One light on each side, and they merged into a much wider beam and extra bright in the center. Regular epoxy didn't work so well, but the silicon is still on after three years & a lot of rain.