Automatic Bike Handlebar Lights

January 16th, 2008 by Bren · 3 Comments

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Over at Instructables, contributor Handsome Ryan has an excellent guide to mounting LED lights in your bar ends. The lights are switched on via magnet attached to your bike glove. This is a great bike hack for commuters. We commuters have already got enough lights to think about turning on and off every time we hop on the ride–two automatic lights that increase side visibility would be great!

This hack looks like it takes a few less common items that you might have to source on teh internets rather than locally. But it’s all pretty cheap. If you’re anything like me, you should probably set aside a full half day to get these things running. I’d probably put ‘em on upside down first, then backwards the next time, before finally getting it right.

On a side note, Instructables is a fantastic site, and Handsome Ryan has done a bang up job of documenting this hack.

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  • 1 Ryan // Jan 17, 2008 at 7:11 am

    I think I have a couple leftover reed switches kicking around in my workshop. If anyone seriously wants to try this hack I could probably be persuaded to mail you one so you don’t have to pay $6 shipping on a $0.13 piece. If you are interested, email me @ hand1some1ryan@car1audio.com without the 1’s.

    Thanks,
    Ryan “HandsomeRyan” Cooper

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