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My experience of the above is that it's alright. My Cree torch does bounce slightly in the mount though, what with road vibrations and the rubber band stretching so I'm going to pad it slightly with something. The mount seems like it's designed for quite slender torches (about 1cm dia) but it holds mine (~2cm) just fine.
Also, I have one of those 3-mode (dim, fast flash, bright) torches and as Dammit (I think?) found using the AAA carrier, bumps in the road are enough to make it change mode which sucks. It always switches to flashing which must be really annoying for oncoming traffic.
I tried it with a pair of CR123A (lithium) batteries though and it was much better, right up until they cut out after half an hour - now I need to dig out the charger and hope that they were almost empty at the time. Also, the torch gets quite warm with the lithium batteries which, given their reputation, worries me a bit.
Hopefully it wasn't a thermal cutout in the batteries which made the torch switch off.
I'm tempted to get a 18650 battery and charger anyway.
That seller ships from HK. It takes about a week and you have to sign for the package which means a trip to the delivery office if you're not home.