London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

:o this is brilliance. pure brilliance! :D

i might have just peed myself XD

:D As a confirmed weight weenie that image won't appear on my monitor - I just get a box with a cross through it.

What's great about this stuff is that you can cut it to any shape you want, like having a large flexible flat light bulb that you can cut to any shape.

Fucking ace, you should do one for a stem too

Look at Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries, they are not small but they are very light which will be your main concern. The invertor can be made so it doesn't whine. do you have a link to the EL sheet you used and the specs for powering it?

Welll done that man. Top hacking.

The inverter set up as it is at the moment is only 109g with batteries so pretty light really.

I have no clue !!! I have a few bits of EL sheet from all over the place, most of it is fairly old - the one I do know the provenance of is the stuff I got from http://www.mutr.co.uk/ which to be honest is not very bright and the electrical connections are weird - so look around but don't get it from there (but I mutr.co.uk do cheap inverters for you to pull apart and make small bike sized ones) - also don't get it from http://www.rapidonline.com as they use the same stuff as mutr.co.uk (but if you want to experiment are very very cheap).

I know surelight sell the good stuff but they are very expensive.

Sorry that's the best I can remember, search around it is not too hard to find.

For power - 9V (4x AA or AAA batteries) of inverted power.

Rapid are selling the surelight stuff now and we get good discount at work. Hmmmmm, no red sheet which is a shame.

This is the slippery slope to MAX POWER-ville, I agree. You're all looking down that slope, watching tynan already sliding inexorably towards getting a PS3 on his bike or boilerplate-effect steel bits or something.

But I am so glad you chose to try out this luciferan madness on such an appropriately-named frame. You could tell people that it uses argon gas and everything.

:D

Do you want to be my friend ?

Rapid are already dirt cheap so with a discount they should be 'very dirt cheap'*



*not actual proper phrase.

Morning all! Much like most peeps who stumble across LFGSS I've been lurking around as a guest for a quite a while now. Thought it was about time I posted something so thought I'd give the dude with the swirly avatar some love. Brilliant idea!

When I put my bag order in (last November) I actually asked if he could include some EL wire in the edge of the bag, he has some that I've sent him so hopefully when I eventually get my bag it will be included.

fuck, using this on bags?!?! that's gotta be scott's ticket to millionairedom! haha! awesome idea :)

What a great idea, I might try and get a fuck off 32" plasma on my stem so I can watch 'celebrity cribs' on the way to signing on.

Welcome, and what a better way to start here than to praise me !!

;P

Calling you a cunt would be in line with forum etiquette. (You cunt).

When we learned a bit about semi-condictuors one of the points we learned about was "hole scavengers". As you can imagine that got a few laughs.

The wire is great stuff, I've got meters of the stuff, what colour did you send him, did you send him the stuff with the lip built in and do you want to buy an inverter from me !! :)

Let there now be an extended period of killing.

Don't bother with the patent just come up with a fancy ad package & sell it!
Look at how well the T'shirts sold! Give it 4-5 months and you could sell those T'shirts for twice the price to all the fashionable chaps who have seen them around.

Same rules apply here!

You could extend to clothes... A Cameo style cod piece would be one for the night ride?

Pm me with what you want and we can discuss. I'm thinking a red strip up the seat tube for a rear light, build my own invertor to run off a LiPo rechargeable battery which could drop in the seat tube and weigh considerably less than what you have, or a none contact dynamo type system driven off the rear wheel (intensity will vary with speed quite a bit though).

You're absolutely right. How could I have got my first post so wrong??! Ah, sheeeeet...

that is the best thing i have seen on this forum. tynan you are a genius

No, he's a cunt........but a very clever one at that :)

looks awesome tynan.

as long as the power source and inverter doesn't kill your cock and balls i'm loving it...

EL can't generate red (only blue/green/white as far as I know, I don't know the technical limitations or reasons) - but you can obviously run white and gel it red (or any colour you want).

If you pull this off let me know as I am a bit crap at all that kind of carry on, I usually find something close and backward engineer it to what I want, I don't think I have enough brainage to work with Li-Po (!!!! do you mean Li-ion??).

I never like the idea of something compromising the ride, as trivially as it may !

It's true, I am !!

All I did was wrap someone else's product around my seatpost and I am treated like a king, I like it, don't stop, please don't stop, did I ever tell you I built my frame by hand from horse hair and baby saliva, please love me, please love me. :)

Yep I meant Li-Ion not polymer. something like a pair of 18650 cells would give 7.2V and plenty of capacity to power a small sheet for ages for about 90g, you just need an invertor to run off that voltage, or one to run of 3.6v and you could get the whole setup for under 100g and not have to worry about balancing cells for recharging.

Back when i was working as a toy designer we did some stuff with el
its really fun, cant tell you what we made though cause its top secret

the seat post is brilliant though, just enough for a splash of pure BLING

haha !! :D That is a possibility, apparently EL gives your cock 'n' balls combo AIDs !

Somwhere online somene is selling EL tape- perfect for handle bars+ a bit of Cinelli clear grip stuff....
http://electroluminescence-inc.com/ELtape.htm

nice light.
i let out a small amount of sex wee and had to sit down with a cup of tea for a few minutes.

Do you think you could get the inverter narrow enough to slide down the seatpost ?
I reckon I can, but like I say I would just be taking apart an inverter and reassembling it with a bit of chopping and soldering.

Fuck me upside down with a pair of giant English cocks ! That's great stuff, I have never seen it as a tape, I imagine it is the same stuff but in a strip and an adhesive backing - that would have been ideal for my original plan which was to the make a EL rim - with the inverter zipped tied to the hub (rotational mass and all that).

Cheers for the link.

Whoa there big head! Tis true...it is just someone else's product wrapped around a seatpost, but it's a good idea nonetheless. When you spend top dorrah on lovely frames the last thing you want to do is clutter it up with lights with shabby brackets. Although it's not the simplest of setups (I mean by installation) it looks clean. And that's the main thing, no??

Thought you'd like it.


It has got me + my chemist friends thinking. I think the next step is full on chemiluminescence....
Or GFP maybe.
Basically, EL is one thing, but I think we can do away with the wires.....
But i fscking love this idea, and am a bit bored of revision, so thinking up some ideas....

Tynan yesterday...

Yeah !! The reason I want to shove the the power/inverter down the seat tube it to get it out of the way, keep it simple/clean.

Maybe I am a genius after all? I did come 40th in an art contest once, surely that's got to be a fucking sign, no ?

And today.

better than his tuesday 'outfit' ...

What is GFP ?

Fuck !! :)

That looks very much like my 5th wife Denise, bless her.

tynan that is a slick idea good luck with it as for the max power vibe im going for the hot tub on the back of my bike jus for the laydeeeezzzzz.

as for spidey thats one of the funnest pics ive seen in ages

That shit's fucked up !

GFP + green fluorescent protein, a bit of a joke really...

You know what they say, never send a metallurgist to repair an oil tanker.

let us in.

Yes I do, I reckon you could get the lot inside the seatpost with a bit of though, then just pull the seat post out and plug a charger into the base of it to recharge the battery!

^ good idea.

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