One photo and two videos from now, you'll understand how Side Visibility and the Down Low Glow protect you on night rides.
Nearly 70% of nighttime bicycle / car collisions are related to Side Visibility.
Above, Rock The Bike's piece on the benefits of Side Visibility.
Above, a YouTube video by Livewombat, an enthusiastic customer, shows how bright the DLG is when viewed from the side.
Front and rear safety lights (blinkies) protect you well in many riding situations. But blinkies are weakest when viewed from the side. Unfortunately, side visibility is the most common cause of nighttime bicycle-car collisions. Every time you approach a turn or an intersection, your side visibility is key to drivers seeing you.
Cool Kids - Black Mags
Submitted by DJ2XJO on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 11:19.This is some fresh new hip hop about BIKES!
Fun moments from the Virgin Festival in Baltimore
Submitted by fossilfool on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 00:54.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Rock the Bike brought 5 pedal power bikes out to the Virgin Festival this past weekend in Baltimore. Two were used for cell phone recharge stations. One was the Choprical Fish, my party bike. One was a Fender Blender, that Sambazan used to serve 2500 samples of their Acai smoothie. And one was a "Light Bike" that demonstrates the difference between a compact fluorescent and an incandescent lightbulb, in pedaling effort.
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My family car is an SUB and I love it
Originally appeared on Salon.com's "The Good Life", by Mark Benjamin.Quotation:
Trader Joe's is three miles away. It was a pleasant ride. My bike is heavier by a few pounds -- it's certainly more cumbersome to carry down the porch steps -- but I couldn't feel the difference when riding. The bike performed pretty much the same as before. At Trader Joe's, I filled an entire grocery cart to the rim. By the time I reached the checkout lane, all seemed lost. No way this was going to fit on my bike.
Tandem action
Submitted by Derek on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 22:53.Last nights configuration.
A little green under the deck to make the spinning rear wheel stand out. It doesn't show so great in pics, but it was pretty cool. I'm ditching the serfas taillights for a dual red tube of dlg. Talk about a killer taillight - check that swath of light
I have the blue lights angled a little more toward the garage here(which would be the car side of the bike).
Rock the Bike's "The Choprical Fish and the Urban Mobile DJ" debuts at the Bicycle Film Festival in SF
Submitted by fossilfool on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 13:28.
Photo: DustinJ. Please check out the piece below.
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Down Low Glow power management enhancements yield 25% longer battery life on Dual Tube systems.
Commute all week on a single charge.
If you're like many Rock the Bike readers and community members, you crave the Side Visibility the Down Low Glow provides, but you already have a handful of devices you need to remember to charge up regularly -- your cell phone, digital camera, and MP3 player, to name a few. The longer these devices last between charges, the more the benefits of using them outweigh the hassle of having to remember to recharge them.
Sendin' out the bike vibe. Sendin' out the peace vibe.
Submitted by fossilfool on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 10:01.
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Joel Elrod, LiveOnBike drummer, and an explanation of the LiveOnBike Mundo
Submitted by fossilfool on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 02:30.Skip ahead to 00:24:
This video gives a taste of the LiveOnBike performances we've been doing on SF Cruiser rides this summer. Joel Elrod, who had just finished playing a gig with Pleasuremaker, is drumming on a SPDS electronic drum machine. The signal from the SPDS is carried from the back of the Mundo to the front where it enters a DIT Head Unit containing a Rolls MX56c 4-Channel mixer and Shure Wireless body pack microphone, and DoubleWide Down Low Glow battery that powers the SPDS and a dual tube DLG system for 5 hours.
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First Ever Southbay Bicycle Music Festival - An intimate musical bicycle cruising night round the campfire
Submitted by Wild Johnny on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 16:30.We couldn't have picked a better day to celebrate the first ever Southbay Bicycle Music Festival, July 19th, 2008. On a warm sunny afternoon we met at Hermosa Pier, sang happy birthday to Cruiser of the week "Tony', then we headed off towards the Esplanade cruisin' to the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. (What can I say, it felt like we were heading off to Woodstock so the mix was leaning a little towards the '60's for this ride)
