First Attempt

Well I think I did pretty good for a first attempt. No thread cutting yet, but fit and finish turned out much better than I expected. Now if all the components weren't back ordered I could get some lights built.

I am going to get in trouble for this one I think....

The cancer is spreading


I realized that it is cheaper to do DIY, what is expensive is once you build it then realizing you want to improve something. Then you end up with one of these.

History

Things didn't start out so pretty.
This is the second light I tried and I wanted to go BIG

Well it was a monster, somewhere around 700 lumens, but the battery pack was a killer with AA's. You can check out all the gory details over here
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=334114

So it begins

Funny, I have worked in IT since before there were blogs and this is the first one I have ever contributed to an it isn't even in my field.

This started about a year ago right after I bought my first mountain bike. After making the purchase it became apparent that I would never get to use my bike as the days were getting shorter and there was no shortage of work. So as the days grew shorter the frustration grew longer. One of my friends had an old set of halogens and was always complaining about the run time. I had just picked up a new LED light for my wife for Christmas and it was bright. Serendipity I guess. I searched around and there was a forum over at MTBR.com that was just starting to heat up and thanks to a guy named Achesalot a new madness was born.

For a complete starter here is what got me going
http://bikeled.org/

Thanks Allen

This will be my attempt to document some basic build processes that I use as well as an ongoing testament that DIY is rarely cheaper since you don't stop at 1.