{"id":1734,"date":"2007-06-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-30T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T00:40:53","slug":"pedalite-bike-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/pedalite-bike-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedalite Bike Pedals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using my <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/cool-tools-untr-1\/\">Pedalites<\/a> the last couple of years for short-range commuting up and down an unlit, rural county road, and would indeed recommend them, $55 price tag and all. They work just as advertised: pedal for 20 seconds, and the dynamos charge up and power flashing LEDs with a resulting effect similar to marker lights on a truck. The pedal incorporates both a white &#8220;front&#8221; and red &#8220;rear&#8221; LED. You never replace batteries. They have held up to rain, though I haven&#8217;t done an extensive amount of rain riding with them.<\/p>\n<p>I would say they are really best for a city commuter (I recently transplanted them onto my city bike), because the dynamos do add resistance to the system. However, I don&#8217;t mind having to work a little harder for that extra light. Note: a charged set will flash for over five minutes after you finish pedaling, which means that after you chain and walk away from your bike, it&#8217;s still there flashing &#8220;look at me! look at me! (steal me!).&#8221; Of course, &#8220;Look at me&#8221; is exactly what you DO want while riding. The LEDs don&#8217;t emit enough light to navigate, so you still need at least a headlamp &#8212; certainly while rural riding &#8212; but their side flashing is especially valuable for urban riding.<\/p>\n<form><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/archives\/pedalite2-sm.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"100\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/form>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-generating LED lights for urban cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[85],"tags":[691],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}