Here are the detailed instructions on how to do this whole process. Copy it, print it out, write it down:

  1. Bend the light bracket so it’s flat (as flat as you can get it).
  2. Remove the handlebar bracket off the headlight.
  3. Grab your plug (whether you’re using the Rideal one, or you purchased the one I did, cut it to expose the positive and negative wires.
  4. Using the 12-14 gauge slot, strip off the black coating to expose the positive and negative wires.
  5. Strip the 24 gauge (small positive and negative) wires on the plug and do the same thing to the ones on the headlight.
  6. Grab one bigger heat shrink (slightly bigger than the black cable) and 2 small pieces of heat shrink (slightly bigger than the 2 thinner cables).
  7. Slide the bigger heat shrink over the entire bundle of cables.
  8. Cut the thin pieces of heat shrink into 2 1″ pieces.
  9. Slide the smaller pieces of heat shrink over the small positive and negative wires.
  10. Curl the stripped cable ends (the metal pieces) and make hooks on all 4 cables.
  11. Take the positive wires from the headlight and the plug and hook them together, then twisting them, so they remain attached to each other.
  12. Warm up your soldering iron, grab your solder, and solder the positive wires together and the negative wires together.
  13. Slide the small pieces of heat shrink over the soldered wires.
  14. Heat the heat shrink up and form it over the soldered joints.
  15. Slide the bigger heat shrink over the bundle of cables.
  16. Heat the bigger heat shrink and form it over the bundle.
  17. As an extra precaution, cover the heat shrink in electrical tape.
  18. Plug the in the cable, power on the bike, and test the light.
  19. Mount the bracket from the light to the bracket on your bike or basket/rack.
  20. Zip tie the cables on the underneath of the basket.

Tool List

  • Headlight – https://amzn.to/3DTCehd
  • Soldering iron – https://amzn.to/3n4eRvB
  • Cheaper soldering iron – https://amzn.to/3yN9mDJ
  • Solder (get the thicker solder, you’ll like it better)- https://amzn.to/3h6QKZb
  • 2 Pin Male to Male cable – https://amzn.to/2WRxisg
  • Heat shrink wrap – https://amzn.to/3zRJM1y
  • Lighter/hair dryer/heat gun – https://amzn.to/3n6FxMb
  • Electrical tape – https://amzn.to/3jPkRGB
  • Wire strippers – https://amzn.to/3BJpPdZ
  • Small wire strippers (or you can use scissors, just be careful) – https://amzn.to/2WSLx0u
  • Knife – https://amzn.to/3zQ6GGz
  • Zip Ties – https://amzn.to/3BHvjGb