Comments on: LED tires, smart bikes, and a competition

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:49:11 +0000

This is how iBike (a company that makes cheap power meters) uses and waterproofs an iPhone or iPod Touch for use in measuring speed, distance, wattage, etc.:

http://www.ibikesports.com/ibikedash/index.html

It’s a bit expensive at $850 (not including iPhone or iPod Touch) but arguably pretty reasonable compared to other power meters.

It’ll be interesting to see what additional features Apple would add with their Smart Bike.

By: rider

rider — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:06:11 +0000

I do not agree to Greenobike, because ThinBike a far better looking and mature bike then the Dahon. That’s just a semi folding bike. I like to compare it to the beixo slim. http://www.beixo.eu/en/slim This bike from Holland is on the market for a few years and has the same folding possibilities. Should be on every bike.

By: chachachad

chachachad — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:37:10 +0000

yep there are companies that have tooled and tested stems that do that. If painting a bike white to show a concept is new then fine but that isn’t new and the reason you don’t see that in mass production is because of liability risk associated with end users actually clamping a QR stem in a manner that it won’t kill them. Ghost bike is right!

By: 自転車に乗るインセンティブ « cotoba

自転車に乗るインセンティブ « cotoba — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:20:18 +0000

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By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:21:19 +0000

Before Cyglo spend all those money on R&D and paying for the molds, there must have been someone there that asked:

“Why don’t we put those lights on the wheel instead? …but that would mean I would be out of a job if we do that…..”

By: nicolas

nicolas — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:49:06 +0000

Why is there a ghost bike in that dude’s apartment?

By: greenobike

greenobike — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:53:24 +0000

ThinBike is the same as an old Dahon design. Good idea, but like a lot of bike designs, it’s been done before, and in mass production in this case. http://www.dahon.com/bikes/2009/wobbegong