100 Blinky Bike Lights on a Fat Tire BMX
100 Blinky Bike Lights on a Fat Tire BMX
If you want just a few blinkies: http://amzn.to/2i8YTip
If you want the cheap as balls ones just search Alibaba and DHgate, it’s all the same crap. I ordered 100 and paid like 90 cents apiece, but I see better deals on there now.
This box contains 100 miniature rubber bike lights, which I ordered directly from a manufacturer in China. In this quantity they’re cheap as balls. Literally, I think they cost as much as ping pong balls. Anyway these lights are great for being seen when riding around town but they’re pretty useless for lighting up your path. Each light has 3 settings; constant on, strobe, and slow blink. They’re sometimes known as safety lights, but I prefer the colloquial “blinky”.
So you may be thinking, dude why did you buy all these blinkies? Well it’s in direct response to a comment on the bike lights video. I had joked that for the price of one hight end bike light you could buy 10 cheapo lights off Amazon and put them all on your handlebars. You guys want to see that, but I don’t. Riding around with 64,000 milliamps worth of the cheapest lithium ion batteries you can legally buy would be sketchy at best. So, I’ve opted for 100 of these harmless blinkies instead.
The Fat Ripper is the perfect bike for this experiment because of the skinny steel tubing, rigid fork, and BMX handlebars. We should be able to fit all 100 blinkies on the front.
Almost immediately I started finding some duds. This was unsurprising. Still 90 something lights would be no joke, so I weeded out the bad ones and pressed on, methodically. Not a single nook or cranny was spared.
Afterwards I took a closer look at the duds and found that they were ALL easy to repair. By replacing the batteries or playing around with the contacts, all 100 blinkies were working. I even found spots for them. Now to wait for nightfall.
Turning all the blinkies on took a few minutes, and I even found that one of them was red. The question on everyone’s mind though is whether the combined might of 100 blinkies is enough to illuminate a path. The answer is, sort of.
Clearly there was light being projected, randomly from the front of the bike. I did my best to point the blinkies towards the ground, but it’s only possible to do so much. One thing’s for sure; everyone could see me.
Fun blinky fact. There are 2 CR2032 batteries per blinky—you know those flat batteries that cost $7 a pair at the drugstore. At that price it costs wayyy less to just replace your whole blinky when the batteries go dead. That’s ridiculous.
Of course, buying your 2032’s in bulk would help. Still, it’s amazing how long the batteries last on these. You can expect to get a few weeks worth of commuting out of one blinky before it goes dead. That reminds me, there’s a reason we call these blinkies.
As I rode around town, causing seizures and scaring puppies, I realized that I’ve done much more ridiculous things to a fat bike.
So there you have it, 100 blinkies. I know it’s not the 10 amazon lights you guys really wanted to see, but at least these can’t explode 4 inches from my scrotum. As a very wise man once said, safety is number one priority.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this and if you see me at Miami Critical Mass this Friday I’ll give you one of these blinkies. Thanks for riding with me today, and I’ll see you next time.
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Call it a fat ripper
looks like a real life chunk error
You forgot the one inside the tire 😢😢😢😢😢
Hahaha that shrug @ 6:10
¯_(ツ)_/¯
How ridiculous! I love it lol. Fill out the rest of the bike
Seizure bike
Epilepsycle
2019 anyone
i need one of those
looks like a purge film
Qué modelo de bicicleta es
Crazy Russian says safety first.
Mettila una luce dietro..
What is this bike
Some long exposure photography would have come out amazing with those lights.
1000 blinkies nexts
Who else punched a wall when the blinkies weren’t in sync
😂😂😂
Try a 1000 blinkys
I cannot even buy 1 blinkie😭
More ridicolous things with fatbikes
Do that in new year or crihstmas all blinkis blink
Which camera are you using?
RIP
You put blinkies on the entire bike and do tricks with it
Do the hole bike
6:26. The crazyrussianhacker
Come on Seth…what a waste of resources. You will have to throw all those batteries away! All those lights will burn out and be junk! Plus the waste of resources used to make those lights & batteries. All for views? I think after this I’m done with your channel. This is just irresponsible. Those batteries go in landfills and pollute the earth. The same earth you ride on!!!!! They are made in toxic conditions for people making chump change. You’re didn’t help anything here. You funded cheap labour…and toxic materials. Good job! This is a fail! For this reason….I’m out! Thumbs down from me.
I’ve had those exact lights on my bike when I was 8 but it was white
It would of looked better if you had of put the lights all over the bmx , not just in on place !!!!
Seems like You are going to be the light of that party.
You freaking look like a cop car
Bar spin looked cool
My last for 2 years no repare
Do a led bike 😂
Should’ve done all the bike
LOL dude
I have 13 reasonable lights totalling 8000+ lumen
And no it’s not as good as 1 cateye volt 6000
But it is better than my 2019 car that had adaptive led factory headlamps
Mine are all internal battery lamps, and it adds heaps of weight, but I’ve accumulated them over a period of time and they were all pretty cheap
6:28 crazy russian hacker
The whole bike
Crazy and funny at the same time.
Great video.
Best Wishes from germany
Epilepsy bike
When it was blinking on his bars it looked like the front of night rider
use colored blinkies
Now u ride to freaking Christmas tree
Schmity lights
Seth, you look like a casino on wheels
If you put that on top of a store they will think it is a bike store.
Do it all over the bike the whole bike with lights
I buy 2032s at IKEA. They, too, are cheap as balls.
Valiente jilipollez.