Blink Steady Secure Rear Light flashes through Kickstater success, moves on to retail

Agree – $125 for a rear light is just too much, no matter how cool it is!

I’ve had mine for a couple months now, so far so good. The idea is to lock it on there and forget about it. The same reason I’m backing the sparse headlight on kickstarter.

I’m with Gillis!

Well, it would not be legal in Denmark.

are people just excited to get things from kickstarter? how much more difficulty is involved with remembering to flip a switch, as opposed to having an accelerometer activate the light? what’s next, body piercings with LED’s, you don’t have to remember them if they are attached to your body.
and Gillis, in New York people have to secure their seats and seatposts to protect them from theft. So a light that is securely bolted on will not be left behind by thieves, it will be stolen along with the saddle and post, maybe the whole bike. At least then there’s no need for a tail light, and you can try to secure funding for a new bike via kickstarter.

This idea is flawed and unsafe unless there is a delay that keeps the light on for a few minutes after the bike is stopped. It is very unsafe for a rear light to turn off when stopped at at traffic light or a stop sign! I smell a lawsuit coming up.

JimmyZ, I lived in NYC for four years and never had my seat/post stolen. And that was a Thompson with an old Flite Ti saddle and a regular bolt clamp. But I had at least 3 tail lights of the $30 variety stolen. If you’re riding a Brooks with a NOS Campy seatpost, then yeah, that’s probably something you should be taking with you.

Bahaha. Interesting concept but I’ll stick with my much better designed, waterproof, lighter and rechargeable Knog Blinders, thank you very much

$125 buys a lot of Princeton Tec tail lights and a toggle switch is a lot less failure prone than an accelerometer. Also if you really don’t want your light stolen you need to take it with you. That said, I work in the Portland suburbs and park in front of a security guard so I even leave my expensive LED headlight in place without worries.

for that price a bit of side visibility would be appropriate I think.

To bad these guys don’t pay attention to their own statements…..Stuart stated he works with local vendors to not get screwed and he can go bug them if problems arise. I would love that opportunity to bug the people at Blinksteady…..I have shipped back a clamp over 2 months ago and still have not received anything back. Multiple emails, calls get excuse after excuse (Junk email filters or thought it was taken care of) on why they haven’t sent the clamp back. Complete failure on their part and I feel that this is a big scam. I warn people to watch out.