colorful LED lights for festive night riding?
08-17-22, 03:03 PM
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colorful LED lights for festive night riding?
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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.
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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 Spoke LEDs using persistence of vision (Monkeylectrik, hokeyspokes, etc)
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 Spoke LEDs using persistence of vision (Monkeylectrik, hokeyspokes, etc)
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 Spoke LEDs using persistence of vision (Monkeylectrik, hokeyspokes, etc)
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 Spoke LEDs using persistence of vision (Monkeylectrik, hokeyspokes, etc)
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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