Our loud whistle works pretty well to get the attention of most drivers, but not everyone has a whistle that will shatter glass. And for those people, Loud Bicycle horn may be just the thing.
Sound: is like a typical car horn, both in volume and pitch
Honk: for up to 30 seconds at a time (but please be respectful)
Batteries: are rechargeable Li-ion batteries that will last 1-2 months
Button: snaps on to either handlebar and honking does not interfere
with braking.
Weather resistant: works in rain, sleet and snow
Its makers are currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. They’re hoping to get $43,000 and with 31 days to go they’ve already raised $14k. If you’d like to help them out, click here.
What bike goes 80 MPH and can go 200 miles on a single charge and can be pedaled like the “bicycle” it is after the battery dies? It’s the Handebrink X-5, according to a story in Wired.
The 120-pound bike has a dual suspension monocoque chassis build out of aircraft-grade aluminum tubing. The suspension has 177 mm of travel to keep the ride smooth, while Avid hydraulic front brakes and rear Brembo four-piston brakes bring it to a stop. Hanebrink says, “Optional adjustable offset triple clamp forks allow the rider to adjust for corner entry reaction from very quick to very stable, or anywhere in between.”. . . When the juice runs out, use a coin to turn the fasteners and pop out the pedals from behind the fairings to go on human power.
The only problem? The thing costs $16,940, however, if you’d like to buy us one for Christmas we’ll take it.
After deciding that traveling by car pretty much beats flying with bikes each and every time, we discovered Spinlister.comDoLiquid.com and started to rethink our travel plans.
Liquid, based in San Francisco, California, is an online “marketplace that lets you find the best bikes to rent online, whether from individuals or existing bike rental shops.” It also lets anyone with a bike rent it out. Not a bad idea really.
Now, rather than spending $400 on a bike bag and paying $150 each way to fly bikes around, we may just check in with Liquid and rent one when we get there. However, we doubt we’ll be renting David Tsee’s Scattante r570 Road Bike for $110 a day, although $170 for the week doesn’t sound too bad.
Check it out. The more people who sign up, the better it will be for everyone who travels and rides.
[Editors’ Note: Two days after we posted this Spinlister changed their name to Liquid. We’ve made corrections to update this post.]
Last night (October 16, 2012, during the Presidential debates), in San Francisco, California, GoPro Founder and CEO Nicolas Woodman unveiled the GoPro Hero3.
Each new edition retains the iconic look of the previous award winning HD HERO cameras but comes in at about half the size of its predecessors and has built-in Wi-Fi technology. At the top end of the new product line up, the HD HERO3 Black Edition is one of the most powerful camera systems available, delivering astounding 4K and 2.7K video resolutions all in the size of a small box of matches, making it easier to share your world. The White, Silver and Black editions are available for pre-order at GoPro.com and are shipping to specialty retailers around the world for MSRP $199.99, $299.99 and $399.99 respectively.
Yes, just like the iPhone 5, everyone who uses and loves the GoPro is going to have to upgrade, dammit. Can’t have an old camera riding around on your new helmet can you?
Israeli “mass-production” engineer Izhar Gafni, 50, has designed a new bike that is made out of cardboard. Gafni believes it has the “potential to change transportation habits in the world’s most congested cities,” according to a story on Haaretz.
“I was always fascinated by applying unconventional technologies to materials and I did this on several occasions. But this was the culmination of a few things that came together. I worked for four years to cancel out the corrugated cardboard’s weak structural points,” Gafni said. . . “Making a cardboard box is easy and it can be very strong and durable, but to make a bicycle was extremely difficult and I had to find the right way to fold the cardboard in several different directions. It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failure until I got it right,” he said.
Guess the biggest question we have is this: is it stiffer, lighter, and cheaper than carbon?
Velocomp has reportedly updated its iBike products for the iPhone 5 according to a post on electronista.
Two new products have been announced — the iBike Dash CC 5 cycling computer and iBike Phone Booth 5 bike case and mount. Both products are designed specifically for the new iPhone 5. The Dash CC 5 computer features Bluetooth 4.0 bike sensor technology to track speed and cycling cadence, while the Phone Booth 5 case allows secure mounting of an iPhone 5 on either handlebars or the bike stem.
Thanks to the size (and accessory plug) changes with iPhone 5 many who depend on their iPhone for gathering cycling data were left searching for other options. Thanks to iBike it looks a solution may arrive soon. Sadly, the new iPhone products are only available for pre-order at this time. They say they’ll ship by December, but who knows how long it will really take.
The phone has been out for a little over a week, but the case selection has been even weaker. That’s all changed now that Incipio is on the case. They’ve just announced six new iPhone 5 cases that will keep the your light, little, digital candy bar safe from your reckless life.
The new iPhone 5 cases include the best-selling feather®, CODE™ and NGP®, as well as the innovative DualPro™ SHINE , feather® SHINE and FAXION™. . . “We have been working diligently to provide consumers with an array of iPhone 5 case solutions and couldn’t be happier to announce these new additions,” said Andy Fathollahi, Chief Executive Officer of Incipio. “We will continue to unveil new cases as our design and production teams are always pushing the envelope on innovation.”
We’d been running their cases exclusively on our iPhone 4 and they were bulletproof, even surviving a road drop from the back pocket of our jersey. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
Want to make some of those cool “tracking through the trees with a shallow depth of field” freeriding edits? This newly announced Canon 6D may be the affordable way to make it happen, according to a post on Gizmag.com.
On the video side of things, the EOS 6D builds on the capabilities of the EOS 5D-series and offers full manual control over exposure and audio levels while recording video. Video options include 1080p at 30, 24 and 25 fps along with 720p at 60, 50, 30 and 25 fps. Continuous recording time is the usual 29 minutes and 59 seconds, and there’s 4GB automatic file partitioning.
The camera also featured built in Wi-Fi, GPS, and works with iPhone and Android app remotes. What more could you ask for in a camera that will sell for only $2,100. The 6D goes on sale in December. Save your pennies.
We spent most of our time on the floor of the Sands Expo center at Interbike half-heartedly searching the aisles for an ANT+ monitor. Not a bicycle computer, not a GPS unit, not a dedicated nav system; just a dumb monitor that can read all our ANT+ data and display it back to us from a small unit on our bars.
We rock the iPhone for our cycling data capture. We’ve got to carry the phone anyway, and if we’re going to carry it, we might as well use it as our computer. But we’re not interested in mounting the iPhone on our bars for several reasons. One, it requires putting the phone in a new case every time we go on a ride, two, we’re not sure the iPhone will stay on the bars while we’re mountain biking, and three, the iPhone is just to big to be mounted up on the bars anyway. We’re already neck deep into Abvio’s Cyclemeter and really aren’t interested in jumping ship to a Garmin 500 for all kinds of reasons. We simply want a way to see the numbers without having to get the phone out of our back pocket. It seems like this would be a pretty popular item if it were made correctly and priced right.
