LED tail lights have really come down in price so there is really no excuse to not have one on a bike or trike for night riding. The photo on the right is a photo looking down on the cargo rack so the mounting arrangement can be seen.
As for the headlight, since there are no front handlebars, there is no really good way of mounting a traditional handlebar mounted light to the front. So, I decided to take a headlamp and modify it to be a bike light. The headlamp is a model that can be tilted. That way, the lamp can be secured by a bunch of rubber bands then tilted forward. The lamp has a "flash mode" which is quite bright. It's so bright that when I pulled up to a store, the clerk at first thought I was riding a snowmobile!
Mounting the speedometer was rather problematic. The cord between the speedometer and the pickup sensor did not allow for enough length to have the sensor in the rear and also have the readout in front. The solution came was to pick up a u-bolt at the local hardware store. This would allow the readout box to be mounted to the front crank tube. Since the wire was too short to reach the back wheel area, the sensor needed to be mounted somewhere around the front-wheel area.
Just as with the other items, there was no ready-made way to mount the pickup sensor. However, I had an idea. To accomplish mounting the sensor to the front wheel, an "L" bracket from the local hardware store was purchased along with a couple of 8-32 machine screws with washers and Nylock nuts (so the screws don't vibrate lose). The nice looking plastic clamp around the right control stick was the unused clamp left over from the rear tail light installed earlier.
LED tail lights have really come down in price so there is really no excuse to not have one on a bike or trike for night riding. The photo on the right is a photo looking down on the cargo rack so the mounting arrangement can be seen.
As for the headlight, since there are no front handlebars, there is no really good way of mounting a traditional handlebar mounted light to the front. So, I decided to take a headlamp and modify it to be a bike light. The headlamp is a model that can be tilted. That way, the lamp can be secured by a bunch of rubber bands then tilted forward. The lamp has a "flash mode" which is quite bright. It's so bright that when I pulled up to a store, the clerk at first thought I was riding a snowmobile!
Mounting the speedometer was rather problematic. The cord between the speedometer and the pickup sensor did not allow for enough length to have the sensor in the rear and also have the readout in front. The solution came was to pick up a u-bolt at the local hardware store. This would allow the readout box to be mounted to the front crank tube. Since the wire was too short to reach the back wheel area, the sensor needed to be mounted somewhere around the front-wheel area.
Just as with the other items, there was no ready-made way to mount the pickup sensor. However, I had an idea. To accomplish mounting the sensor to the front wheel, an "L" bracket from the local hardware store was purchased along with a couple of 8-32 machine screws with washers and Nylock nuts (so the screws don't vibrate lose). The nice looking plastic clamp around the right control stick was the unused clamp left over from the rear tail light installed earlier.
