Anyone make a hood for your headlight?

[anomad]

The discussion over on missed connections got me thinking again about making a hood for my headlight. A “cap” on the top of the light wouldn’t limit its illumination of the trail but would ease eye strain for fellow path users a great deal. Exactly the same way many of us put our hand over the top the light. I have a little strip of duct tape on the top of one of my lights, that is as far as I have taken the idea.

Something a little less than a full blackout style military light, but that’s what gave me the idea.

[img]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzAwWDMwMA==/z/lt4AAOSwQItUB57q/$_35.JPG?set_id=2[/img]

Here’s another one but its a huge image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/M38_Blackout_Driving_Light.jpg

Or maybe the bicycle light manufacturers could just recognize the need to make their products a little more thoughtful? Like headlights with a clear cut off on top of the beam.

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@hozn 154266 wrote:

Sounds like I should consider an Exposure next time they have their sale. (I have their Trace/r be-seen f/r set which has held up longer than any other similar lights I have owned.)

Or just get the Spec Flux…

Whatever you get be sure to post up your custom hood!

Or just wait a few weeks and start picking up lights for dirt cheap since daylight is growing at almost 2 minutes a day here at this latitude.

[hozn]

Sorry to engage the tangent No, the whole point is to get a light that doesn’t need a custom hood. (Actually the problem I personally have with shaped beam lights is that I would still cover it for incoming traffic to model that behavior, so it wouldn’t actually make riding any less attentive. I already own a Supernova light that is both beautiful and has a nice shaped beam, but I use a nightrider day-to-day.)

[anomad]

You could make one out of a transparent material for the shaped beam light. Kind of a statement, to say while its unnecessary I still can, but I’m also motivated enough to still cover it all with my hand.

@hozn 154269 wrote:

Sorry to engage the tangent No, the whole point is to get a light that doesn’t need a custom hood. (Actually the problem I personally have with shaped beam lights is that I would still cover it for incoming traffic to model that behavior, so it wouldn’t actually make riding any less attentive. I already own a Supernova light that is both beautiful and has a nice shaped beam, but I use a nightrider day-to-day.)

[hozn]

@anomad 154281 wrote:

You could make one out of a transparent material for the shaped beam light. Kind of a statement, to say while its unnecessary I still can, but I’m also motivated enough to still cover it all with my hand.

I could also get a fake hood scoop for my Volvo.

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