Brilliant LED light wands, $2

Will try, but fail with my digicam, to get a decent nighttime picture.

HERE is a low res short video of the light cycled through its seven modes.
The colors just don't come out, sorry.

Mysteriously, in constant-on mode, when the wand is swung around in a circle
the eye sees a stationary pattern of rainbow bars, per the video.
This effect remains regardless of revolutionary speed.

A single wand, hung about your neck, laying on your back
offers better visibility to others at your rear, imo, than the usual dinky
red LED bike lights.

I can't much-see red light because I'm color blind to red;
so are five percent or so of the drivers overtaking you at night.

This light is good at night.
Two bucks at USA Walgreen's Drug Stores.

(note the required dabs of rubbery PerfectGlue)

One is good. Two is amazing. Four is liable to make the nightly news.

Not "gay" looking at all!
I thought you might like to try this yourselves.

Wheels aside, it makes a great safety beacon for bikers and walkers, etc.

weight: 1 3/8 oz or 39 gm.

Proposed: For a rear see-me light,


I would take a bit of old wooden yardstick, make a friction-jointed spar of it
to pole the wand on its tether, about a foot or more behind the bike seat.

The wand will wave about, adding to its eye-catching power.

Why the hinge?

Because then, when worried about some vehicle shoving me off the side of the road, why...

I'd reach back and -pivot- the yardarm (lol) to a perpendicular
suggesting they give a wide birth.

Am quite worried about getting snockered by some giant P.U. truck's outboard side mirror...

The yardarm with this light wand waving wildly in the breeze
will put drivers on notice quite brilliantly.

good

Not "gay" looking at all!

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uhhhmmm....8" strap-on ribbed glo-stick...moderately gay looking and definitely gay sounding I'd say....not that there's anything wrong with either of course

xyster said:

Not "gay" looking at all!

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uhhhmmm....moderately gay looking I'd say....not that there's anything wrong with that of course

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Hah, do you recall seeing the old V thread about HokeySpokes? And we all agreed they look pretty "gay".
But we were only seeing images, not the real thing.

Well, I'm a gay guy. I don't like gay-looking crap on my bike.
I wouldn't say it if it were not true: The flaming colored bike wheel
does not look gay. It looks amazing, scintillating. The girls all go,
"oooh, i want yoooo" and so do ten percent of the guys.

You can make various patterns; all are abstract, most are shifting,
and none spell out
HokeyGaySpokes ,
ha ha, like Mr. Hoke's product does.


summary:

not gay! :lol: s'not! I'll deck the next person who disagrees.


These things are real macho








(reid punches himself)

Well, I'm a gay guy.

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Well, be careful extra with those things then, k?
:lol:

Oh man, you've got both the big jerk SUV-type mentalities, and the rolling homophobes to look out for. Oh wait....same thing...sorry. :lol:

Well, either way, if I was gay (which my girlfriend would be most put-out about) for my safety I'd yank...errr...remove ... those gay looking glo-sticks. But I grew up in hickville, USA, maybe things are better in Florida.

I'd make such a lousy politician...

It is a matter of survival, really.
Jokes aside, I assure you, no-one will see your lit-up bike wheel and say
"gee that looks faggy". Because it doesn't; no more than fireworks in the sky. Really.

I am always struck when I watch Knoxie's video. Aside from a few giant lorries, the other vehicles are nearly all tiny cars.

HERE in Miami, and most places in the USA, SUVs account for about one in three vehicles. Small cars are one in three, full sized regular cars, the other third.

That's a crude guesstimate, but it's not far off from fact.
Giant trucks are in that 1/3rd lump with the SUVs.

The big dualie Rams and such, mostly Diesel. They are giant dicks.
And most of the SUVs are piloted by small women with ears pressed to cell phones.

By count, about one in five Miami drivers on Lejuene Road nearby, are talking on a hand held cell phone.

Anyway, anything weird you do with bike lighting, such as your multi-headlight array, xyster, does not look gay.
It only looks odd

and ODD bright things stop the daydreamers,
waking them to attention;

that is the goal.

Anyway, anything weird you do with bike lighting, such as your multi-headlight array, xyster, does not look gay.
It only looks odd

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Well, it could look both gay and odd...but you're right that the point is survival. I was having visions of homophobic hicks getting out of their vehicles to beat you up, the lights being a sort of signal in their minds to do so....that's along the lines of what has happened sometimes in my neck of the woods to people who look/dress/act or otherwise create displays that some intolerant jerks, looking to express their own insecurities violently, would jerk their knee (and fists) in reaction to. If such was the case then one would have to weigh the benefits of being seen, to the risks of being seen as gay. You're probably right that its much better to use those glo devices than not. I just try, as usual, to consider all reasonable sides of an issue.

Really, they're not talking about me :

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_plays_devils

COLUMBUS, MO—Though area graphic designer Derek Sills says he plays devil's advocate to help his friends better understand opinions different from their own, sources close to Sills claim he takes on the dissenting role merely to be an asshole.

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Some of my caution stems from past experience.

True Story:
In eighth grade I used to wear a fluorescent colored T-Shirt that said "Head". This was the name of a tennis racket company. My peers already thought I was gay because I played tennis. That shirt, in their minds, confirmed their inaccurate suspicions. You can imagine the taunts. One day these taunts and acts of physical intimidation led to a fight in the school playground where I was beaten bloody. In my experience, individuals involved in such violence, violence for the pleasure of seeing others suffer, often never emotionally grow up any further, and just become more dangerous, running in bigger packs with better weapons.

Looks more trippy to me than gay... like a luminescent tie-dye deal. Great ride to take to a rave. (uhhhh.... Do people still rave?)

I wouldn't expect the batteries to last very long, but they're cheap. (Do remember to recycle, if available.)

Two bucks is a good price, I pay that for the 4LED blinkies I wear on the back of my head-light. (Those use rechargable AAA.)

I got some nice 18LED flashlights that run on 12V at BigLots last week. The swivel-heads come off, so I'll be mounting them on the handlebars. I'll get a snapshot and check the fc they emit when I get back to town.


Go for it Reid... you'll be a hit in Miami, The Castro and P-Town (and here of course).


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Tyler, yeah, show pictures. That sounds real good.

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"Trippy" is the perfect word.
And for another fact, gays as a type, don't go for pimping bicycles;
that's a non-association.

I just got back in from the second ride with the light bars flashing.
I tried various patterns, finding awesome the blink-on-off
which makes pie wedges of solid color alternating red, blue, green.
Yeah it's trippy.

xyster, that was a horrible story.
I never was taunted. Lucky me. Hey, you sly comic,
I seeeee that you edited your older posting. Now,

I had not thought of the light wand in those terms at all.
Isn't it funny? I think it's funny that the gay guy who gets his
has only pure thoughts.
OTOH the straight guy thinks for
what he does not get! ha haaa!

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My cousin Hartford Tommy
aka Machismo Master
has words for you.

xyster, that was a horrible story.
I never was taunted. Lucky me.

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One of those ironies that doesn't turn out very funny either way.

Hey, you sly comic,
I seeeee that you edited your older posting.

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Those ribs didn't smack me upside the pattern-recognition neurons until I took a second look at my post.

I had not thought of the light wand in those terms at all.
Isn't it funny?

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Looks like another great dual-use product. Think of all the latex trees that could be saved by way of such forward (or rearward) thinking. Now that's what I call efficiency! :lol:

I think it's funny that the gay guy who gets his
has only pure thoughts.
OTOH the straight guy thinks for
what he does not get! ha haaa!

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There's a perfectly innocent explanation, I can assure you.

My cousin Hartford Tommy
aka Machismo Master
has words for you.

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That's just plain bizarre. I know that character is one of your alter egos, Reid-o! And my name is pronounced "z-I-ster" long i, rhymes with "nice fur" -- a somewhat unintentional variation of the pronunciation of my bone-scraping surgical tool namesake.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/xyster

No wonder you kept rhyming my name with "sister" and "fist--"!

Yep, no worries! I will -always- pronounce xyster as like blister.


You cracked me up above. It's all so hilarious.

The -milt- of the friggin rubber tree. White sticky stuff dripping from a...

Now you have me thinking on your low level of moral thought. Uncleanly.


I must go bathe now.

You cracked me up above. It's all so hilarious.

The -milt- of the friggin rubber tree. White sticky stuff.

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A deep and penetrating iconographic wit, I know.

I think the lights would look cool at night.

But if you parked your bike around there (SF) I bet those glowing toys would get stolen immediately.

I know this is off topic, but these are programmable.

http://www.hokeyspokes.com/