Hope vision 1 modification

A most excellent mod, scott not scot, thanks for posting. I'll not be shedding any tears for the Hope bracket - good enough if you never need to take the light off, but pretty hopeless on the QR front.

good tinkering scott. glad it worx for you.

the nonremovable clamp is defo a nogo for me. i hate clutter.
i found that if your hope slides, it's not been pre-tightened enough. it has to be rather tight and hard to hook in, but once the lever clicks in and is flipped down, it is rather solid.

in case of the colour changelings, prepolish prep would ideally include ovencleaner session against the anodize layer. better and faster, but be careful not to have it on for too long (check and scrape wit hyour fingernail till the colour comes off easy).

same for rapainting it. pait wouldn't stick to it. also use proper primer as a basecoat with bite - acid bite. halfords do the ACID #8 primer, that hooks into the alloy and readies the thing for a respray.
i'd go for enamel paint then.

just be hyper accurate to cover the lens with tape, electro or allweather tape is great. as the o-ring in the battery cap end. take it off and cut slices off electro tape then screw it tight. ;)

not that i haven't thought of a hope mod ever since i filed that disturbing nipple down :P

Annoyingly the exposure bracket no longer comes with the bit to attach to the light

From chainreaction website:
NOTE: Triangular 'hotshoe' and bolt no longer included with this bracket so not suitable to upgrade earlier lights any longer

hyper accurate

Arch enemy of Super precise?

nah! ^them are brothers, you see. s.p. is the older one :P

That's right. There is a third but we don't really talk to Slightly Lax much these days...

*pffff

family, eh?!

Is there some way of taking it apart? I think a bit of water has somehow got into the lens bit of mine, it doesn't effect functionality but it has left water marks on the inside of the glass.

If you want a way of removing the anodizing, overtake a lycra clad roadie at speed going up Kentish Town road then realise you've not put it in the bracket properly as your Vision 1 bounces down the road on the tarmac. Mine's got some nasty scratches now, but is surprisingly ok considering. It narrowly avoided getting run over by a car so could have been worse.

Yeah good point, all the little non-alu bits and bobs will get fucked unless you can strip it fully.

Ooh. That is annoying. Better not lose that then.

Annoyingly the exposure bracket no longer comes with the bit to attach to the light

From chainreaction website:
NOTE: Triangular 'hotshoe' and bolt no longer included with this bracket so not suitable to upgrade earlier lights any longer

The clamp on my Vision 1 has cracked.

If I get the Exposure clamp what else do I need for the work-around?

Exposure light mount, the only thing left is to lie to exposure that your mount on the Exposure Race light have cracked and requested a replacement.

That exposure mount looks great, if I still had my vision 1 I'd have done that, I disliked it being on top of the bars.

Need to get a replacement mount for my hope vision 1 today. if i go in to a shop and buy a mount, it won't have the "triangular hotshoe and bolt" so will be unusable?

Any other bodges for the hope?

Need to get a replacement mount for my hope vision 1 today. if i go in to a shop and buy a mount, it won't have the "triangular hotshoe and bolt" so will be unusable?

Any other bodges for the hope?

Just to update on the hot shoe availability. I have been looking for these for a long time and discovered that they're available through winstanleysbikes.co.uk

• exposure cleat &headbolt kit part ref:esp1119 @ £4.99 just need to find the correct bolt now.
  

^haha, just looked back through this thread to discover that it's taken me 3yrs to source this!!!!! #saddo

Five years later, I finally got round to polishing my lamp:

Method:

• Stripped it as far as possible (everything came off except the button)
  
• Ground the black anodisation and wank logo off with a fairly heavy duty abrasive wheel thing
  
• Spent about three hours on it with wet and dry paper (grades: 400 > 800> 1200 > 2000)
  
• Rubbed some Autosol into that motherfucker
  
  

Here's what it looked like post-grinding, pre-sanding:

Lovely work Josh

Thanks James! Although it's satisfying to bring it up to a high polish, I'm looking forward to it dulling down over time. It's not a Harley Davidson after all.

Been wanting to paint mine for ages, this is a better idea. You should send a pic to Hope, to hint that maybe, just maybe, their 'graphics' don't really suit it, nor does black, blue, red, peuce, melon, or cosmic puke coloured ano.

#rep

Top work.

Would you mind doing mine? I have two. I'm sure it only takes five minutes. LOLZ.

The standard colours and logo are shockingly bad. It was eyesore on my poncey bike.

The same is true of mountain bike stuff across the board tho. I was perving over some Specialized full-suss bikes in my new LBS (I live in Chester now, urgh) and they are all covered in the most pointless wacky graphics. I don't get it.

You need the HHSMTB thread in your life.