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Now it’s getting to the lights on for commuting time, has anyone got one of these? I’m attracted by the idea of keeping the cockpit tidy by being able to fix it under the Garmin, plus I like the none-dazzle design. The publicity makes much of its virtues as a daytime running light (which I like) but not much about its performance at night. If anyone has one they use at night would appreciate hearing about it, thanks!
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And here’s a pic with the
And here’s a pic with the Universal Varia mount (note the angle difference).
Thanks for showing/posting
Thanks for showing/posting this mark1a – helped make my decision, and overall this is a great setup. One thing I’ll note for folks with this, is that Garmin makes a couple of different “out front” mounts. The one I believe shown here (and my preference) is what they call the “Flush Out-Front Mount” – where the mount arm comes out at sort of the midpoint of the clamp. This puts the computer and your light parallel. They have two other mounts, the “Universal Out-front Mount (Varia)” and the “Extended Out-front Bike Mount). Both of those have the arm at the top of the clamp (meaning your computer/light will be higher in relation to the clamp/your bars). The only difference in those two (that I can tell) is that the Varia has this angled mount on the bottom for the Varia (and I’m not sure there is a bottom mount for the “Extended Out-front Bike mount – can’t tell from the single picture that’s only from the top). See my writeup on all this and more photos here.
All of this is to say that I’d factor in two things when choosing the mount:
1) Do you want the computer and light to be at the same angle? I think that works probably for a lot of folks where you want the light pointed straight forward, and are ok with your computer being “flat” as well. But, if you want to angle your computer up, then you may want the Universal Out-front Mount (Varia), so that the computer can be angled up, but the light still more forward (or slightly down – I don’t think you can change the angle).
2) Do you want the computer higher up, and thus use one of the non-Flush mount, or lower down, which the Flush mount does.
Personally I’m favoring the Flush mount, as I like the computer close to flat, and that works best angle wise with the light (it’s possible the Extended would do this, if someone can confirm that it has the underside mount). Anyway, overall, just beware that there are 3 of these (not to mention K-Edge and others make plenty of others too):
Flush mount: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/571684
Universal (Varia): https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/521668
Extended: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/136771
Edited 7-April-2023 to add link to blog and pictures of my setup.
And now the GOPro mount with
And now the GoPro mount with Garmin adapter:
Just to illustrate the “under
Just to illustrate the “under mount” mounting:
Using the Varia mount:
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