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ive been trying to find out what the hell this whole lights on your spokes thing is all about and why pay 50 quid for a few dozen led's, a load of wires, and some battery packs to be hanging on your wheels.
amnn, still have no idea why would want to do that.
why not just have one tiny one, less heavy, less battery and less wires. I figured there must be a way to make a small led that will screw on instead of a valve cap, and turns out these things are already on the market (t'bay has a load to choose from).
the thing is any of these (car/mbike/bicycle) caps are pretty big. Atleast 4cm long and if you want to fit them onto presta valves youll need an adapter which will add even more length to it. The fact of the matter is when you actually screw them onto a bicycle valve you can imagine how far the LED light is away from the rim. If you were to spin the wheel in the dark, the light circle that it creates would be significatly smaller in diameter than that of your wheel.
This is a big problem of this silly device. And i came up with an LED light that can connect to the spoke, making it easy to move it around to any position on the axis.
Basically, not to bore you with all this writing, its a 3V battery, a standard LED, two tiny wires and a magnet from a bicycle speedometer taped together with duck tape
The idea is that the unconnected wire from the LED is layed between the spoke and the bolt, which when tightened will connect the current betwen the battery and the bulb.
With this, unlike the caps, you can position the light right up against the rim and create the light circle the size of your actual wheel.
it obviously isnt that bright, i just used a few seconds on the shutter speed.
so, yeah, if anyone knows of anything similar to this or want to share they're opinions/ DIY led builds post them here.