Pimp your bike

I just saw this article on the Dvice website.

Pimp your bike with MonkeyLectric LED wheels

This is so cool.  I used to have a little fan that did the same thing, I don't know where that fan is but they sell them at the store for like $3.  But, who cares about such a small fan when you can have this on your bicycle on both the front and the back wheels.

It has 16 led lights on each side and it straps right to the spokes on the inside of the wheel so it's not sticking out.  You can put 1 on your wheel or you can put 4 on your wheel or 1-4 on each wheel.  It's really cool for teenagers at night so they can woo their friends and also be very visible to cars so they don't get hit... from the side?  Cars can't really see this from the back.

I wonder if this is street legal though.  I can see it being bicycle trail and skate park legal but what about the street?

This product from MonkeyLectric is only $60 per board and it takes 3AA batteries which are good for 30 hours.

Too Cold To Ride

Well, it seems that Summer isn't quite yet here.  I have been waking up nearly every morning at 4am to go out bike riding thinking that it would be in the 90's or 100's during the day so I'm basically trying to beat the heat.  Well, we had heat for maybe a week but then it was gone.

The last 3 days (including today) it has been too cold to ride.  Yeah I could've just gone out when the temperature was in the 70's but I've gotten so used to riding when there are no cars when the sun isn't up yet that I don't want to go out during the day.

Friday I checked the weather channel application on my computer and it said that there were going to be thunderstorms so I didn't go out.  Yesterday when I went outside to go bike riding it was raining, well more like sprinkling but you know how it goes.  It starts out with a sprinkle then next thing you know it's raining hard.  So I just stayed in.  This morning it was so cold outside and I just decided to wait until when it was warmer and now it's too warm even though it's only 68 lol.  Well, the weather channel says 68 but it's warmer than that outside.

Hopefully tomorrow it will be ok.  It's supposed to be 85 during the day and it says that I should wear pants and a jacket at 7am for exercising because it will be 65 but that is a good temperature in the early morning to exercise for me.

I never thought I would say this but I wish the heat would come back lol.