Sunday 19 August 2007

Bicycle commuter market (re)emerges

A number of products have appeared that specifically aim at the commuter cyclist and seem to mark the strong re-emergence of the bicycle-commuter market.

First and foremost amongst these products are USB-charged LED bike lights. Surely for your city worker to plug into his desktop computer when he sits down at his desk in the morning!


The B-Smart USB light. Nice in theory, but in my experience those quick-release mounts really don't clasp handlebars tight enough for the kind of jolts endured when cycling London's pock-marked roads.


On the subject of lights, Reelight is a retake of the dynamo concept, but one that relys on a nifty relatively easy to system involving neodium magnets attached to the spokes of the wheels.

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