Bicycle Wheel Display System

Dan D · 10-12-13, 08:47 PM

I am loving this. Too bad, that I can't afford it for my brand,"Dan Delicious D". Would be looking good on my 1984 Raleigh bicycle. Anyway,great idea for promotion:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...display-system

TorpX · 10-13-13, 12:21 AM

I don't ride anymore, and I'm more interested in practical features, but if it gets more people outside to ride, it's not a bad thing.

Skybird · 10-13-13, 04:34 AM

I don't see a chance that this would be legally allowed on over-regulated German streets. Quite a lot of good ideas regarding lights on bicycles are banned in Germany, and remain to be banned. Early this year a small mini-reform of the laws regulating bicycle lights has been messed up as well. They wanted to - finally! - allow battery-powered lights as the only light source for non-racing-bikes (in Germany, every bike from 11 kg on must have a frame-installed - non-removable - light system with a dynamo), but somebody wrecked the wording, and due to a small linguistic detail, battery-lights still are formally banned for non-racing bikes now, with politicians refusing to correct the mistake. Thankfully, police controls use some healthy reason on that detail and do not complain about battery lights. But blinking lights of any kind, and picture lights like this one - that is something different. Telling by repeated experience. German traffic cops HATE blinking lights on bicycles.

Even the brightness for lights was regulated and kept at pre-WWII-standards until recently. Not that the police cared in practical controls, but that was how the laws were: your light had to be dim. Formally, the brighter lights of the recent LED-years and stuff used in other countries, was - in parts still is - banned in Germany.

Using bright high quality normal-design LED lights myself, plus a battery backlight on the backside of my my coat's collar. That way you become earlier visible to traffic in your rear sector when the rest of the bike - and so its lights - still is covered from parking cars for example.

Lights to the side or running lights in the wheels are getting the police's unwanted attention.

Jimbuna · 10-13-13, 05:34 AM

I thought it looked pretty cool but will it be affordable?

Platapus · 10-13-13, 07:18 AM

I think it will be exactly as useful and as popular as those marquee signs you can put in the rear window of your car and display messages.

Sailor Steve · 10-13-13, 07:19 AM

Still, it's pretty cool.

Buddahaid · 10-13-13, 10:37 AM

$900.00 per wheel cool but I suppose one could sell advertising space, hook up some speakers, and annoy the world.

TorpX · 10-13-13, 09:48 PM

Yeah, I don't think I'd be interested in any lights that cost more than the bike itself.

10-12-13, 08:47 PM	#1
Dan D Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: 9th Flotilla Posts: 839 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Bicycle Wheel Display System I am loving this. Too bad, that I can't afford it for my brand,"Dan Delicious D". Would be looking good on my 1984 Raleigh bicycle. Anyway,great idea for promotion: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...display-system __________________

10-13-13, 04:34 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,626 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I don't see a chance that this would be legally allowed on over-regulated German streets. Quite a lot of good ideas regarding lights on bicycles are banned in Germany, and remain to be banned. Early this year a small mini-reform of the laws regulating bicycle lights has been messed up as well. They wanted to - finally! - allow battery-powered lights as the only light source for non-racing-bikes (in Germany, every bike from 11 kg on must have a frame-installed - non-removable - light system with a dynamo), but somebody wrecked the wording, and due to a small linguistic detail, battery-lights still are formally banned for non-racing bikes now, with politicians refusing to correct the mistake. Thankfully, police controls use some healthy reason on that detail and do not complain about battery lights. But blinking lights of any kind, and picture lights like this one - that is something different. Telling by repeated experience. German traffic cops HATE blinking lights on bicycles. Even the brightness for lights was regulated and kept at pre-WWII-standards until recently. Not that the police cared in practical controls, but that was how the laws were: your light had to be dim. Formally, the brighter lights of the recent LED-years and stuff used in other countries, was - in parts still is - banned in Germany. Using bright high quality normal-design LED lights myself, plus a battery backlight on the backside of my my coat's collar. That way you become earlier visible to traffic in your rear sector when the rest of the bike - and so its lights - still is covered from parking cars for example. Lights to the side or running lights in the wheels are getting the police's unwanted attention. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

10-13-13, 05:34 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,539 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I thought it looked pretty cool but will it be affordable? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-13-13, 07:18 AM	#5
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,365 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I think it will be exactly as useful and as popular as those marquee signs you can put in the rear window of your car and display messages. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

10-13-13, 07:19 AM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Still, it's pretty cool. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

10-13-13, 12:21 AM	#2
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I don't ride anymore, and I'm more interested in practical features, but if it gets more people outside to ride, it's not a bad thing.

10-13-13, 10:37 AM	#7
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,320 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	$900.00 per wheel cool but I suppose one could sell advertising space, hook up some speakers, and annoy the world. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

10-13-13, 09:48 PM	#8
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	Yeah, I don't think I'd be interested in any lights that cost more than the bike itself.