carfreefamily

Hello Everyone,

As I continue to work on my Raleigh - I'm taking that AG hub apart tomorrow - I am looking forward to installing lights. The bracket that attaches to the headset seems common enough, but the two-piece bracket that attaches to that one and to the headlght seems completely absent from the web. There's one instance of both brackets together on Ebay, in France, for twenty dollars, but the shipping is thirty dollars. In the long run, fifty isn't all that much, but that's almost 50% of the price of the bike.

I know there's other brackets that would work just fine as well, and I'm not out to do a full restoration, and I'm buying Busch and Muller LED lights, but I would like to make it close to "right."

Is there some secret shop that has piles of those two-piece bracket, or is this going to be a Quixotic search?

USAZorro

Trying to visualize the part you're describing. Can you post an image or a link?

carfreefamily

I am still under the 10 post limit required for posting photographs. There is a 2011 thread "705546-headlight-mounting-options-vintage-raleigh-sports.html" that has a photo of one partway down through the thread. I'm going to follow-up on the Bikesmith recommendation, and I have emailed Yellow Jersey. It seems to me that they should be plentiful, given the number of Raleighs made, but they all seem to be hiding.

carfreefamily

I decided to order the one that was in France. It would be good to know, however, for anyone else searching these forums, where else the brackets may be found. Yellow Jersey told me that they no longer have a source.

nlerner

The ones I've had have all come from old Raleigh 3-speeds that were fitted with them originally!

USAZorro

I suspect that, as they attached to the lamps, most got pitched along with the lamp when it perished. It would be awesome if someone produced a modern replacement for those old lamps, but fitted with LEDs and better lenses. They could offer that attachment with them, but as with many other accessories, there have been significant improvements made to attachments as well.

mixteup

A discussion of this very subject, here :

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...gh-sports.html

Cute Boy Horse

I actually found a new source for this kind of bracket by accident, those 12V tyre dynamo sets on ebay. Comes with a nice chrome lamp housing with high and low beam bulbs. Unfortunately the included dynamo is trash. A complete set of everything was I think £14, maybe five months ago.