Headlight Mount for Mountain Bike

In the last years, I changed bikes several times, from single speed bike to race bike, passing from touring bikes, mountain bikes, and so on.

I was searching for a perfect all-round bike which could make the bike-work commuting trip, easy, fast, reliable and could allow me to use it also for outdoor tours into the woods.

The best choice fell on a Mountain Bike with all the gadgets mounted for commuting safely in the traffic.

And this means mudguards, a kickstand, a rack, and most importantly, a head- and rear light.

For the lights, I didn't want to use the battery-operated ones and running the risk to ride my bike in the dark when Winter comes and batteries are drained out.. but I wanted to have some lights powered by a dynamo hub.

So I mounted a different set of wheels and I bought a good, powerful set of lights.

The problem was to find a place, possibly in a centered position, to mount the headlight on.

I found that the ideal position would have been just above the fork and not at the handlebar.

The model made in Autodesk Inventor Professional

Once the model was ready in Inventor, I exported as .stl file and imported into the slicer.

Setting some additional settings in the slicer and after few attempts, and a couple of prototypes, I managed to print all the pieces