colorful LED lights for festive night riding?
08-17-22, 03:03 PM
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colorful LED lights for festive night riding?
hi.
can folks please recommend decent quality long lasting (meaning battery time plus integrity of product) not ebay/amazon use-once-and-they-break USB charged string lights or spoke lights to make my bike look festive and be safer at night? i read BRIGHTZ don't last well but i could be wrong. I sure wish Monkey Electric lights were still around.
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can folks please recommend decent quality long lasting (meaning battery time plus integrity of product) not ebay/amazon use-once-and-they-break USB charged string lights or spoke lights to make my bike look festive and be safer at night? i read BRIGHTZ don't last well but i could be wrong. I sure wish Monkey Electric lights were still around.
THANK YOU.
08-17-22, 03:32 PM
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Ya I two monkey lights that still work but after that I have not seen anything on the wheels thats really all that great. I used these they lasted all winter and rain rides then I peel them off when summer comes along so no great loss. but they have always worked well. going to a more permanent solution for a car may work but its going to be bulky and I doubt powered by usb.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
08-17-22, 04:08 PM
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Ya I two monkey lights that still work but after that I have not seen anything on the wheels thats really all that great. I used these they lasted all winter and rain rides then I peel them off when summer comes along so no great loss. but they have always worked well. going to a more permanent solution for a car may work but its going to be bulky and I doubt powered by usb.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
08-17-22, 06:33 PM
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seem to be I used a small usb battery and never had any issues. cut to length with self adhesive. then I would just take them off and toss them as you can't reuse them. the first time I had a heavier bar type for cars but you had a ton of extra wire to deal with. they don't use a lot of power and they can be synced to music too.
08-17-22, 06:36 PM
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seem to be I used a small usb battery and never had any issues. cut to length with self adhesive. then I would just take them off and toss them as you can't reuse them. the first time I had a heavier bar type for cars but you had a ton of extra wire to deal with. they don't use a lot of power and they can be synced to music too.
08-17-22, 07:00 PM
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Spoke reflectors will likely provide more reliable and effective protection than any LED.
08-17-22, 07:23 PM
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Spoke reflectors will likely provide more reliable and effective protection than any LED.
08-18-22, 09:21 AM
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thanks i'm looking for a twinkly multi-color FESTIVE way to light up my bike that will last for years. we have a light festival here yearly and folks deck out their bikes but they all say the lights don't last year after year so hoping for a high quality solution (not soon-to-be-landfill).
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08-18-22, 11:14 AM
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isn't the reason monkeylectric went under because alibaba was flooded by copies?
Persistence of vision seems to have gone out of style though
I don't know if there are any useful hints in this old thread https://www.bikeforums.net/electroni...pokes-etc.html
Hokeyspokes seems to still be around, although they were panned in that thread
https://www.hokeyspokes.com/
website from 1998
Persistence of vision seems to have gone out of style though
I don't know if there are any useful hints in this old thread https://www.bikeforums.net/electroni...pokes-etc.html
Hokeyspokes seems to still be around, although they were panned in that thread
https://www.hokeyspokes.com/
website from 1998
08-18-22, 11:23 AM
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isn't the reason monkeylectric went under because alibaba was flooded by copies?
Persistence of vision seems to have gone out of style though
I don't know if there are any useful hints in this old thread https://www.bikeforums.net/electroni...pokes-etc.html
Hokeyspokes seems to still be around, although they were panned in that thread
Hokey Spokes - Brilliant Bicycle Safety Light System 0
website from 1998
Persistence of vision seems to have gone out of style though
I don't know if there are any useful hints in this old thread https://www.bikeforums.net/electroni...pokes-etc.html
Hokeyspokes seems to still be around, although they were panned in that thread
Hokey Spokes - Brilliant Bicycle Safety Light System 0
website from 1998
08-18-22, 11:42 AM
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I am sorta looking for something along the same lines as the OP. I don't need highbeams bright, nor a million LEDs, but I'd like a thin cabled LED device [roughly 24" in length] where the LED(s) are at one end & the switch/charge port is at the other end & is all rated to IPX7. Essentially a wand like light.
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