Turbospoke - must have commuting accessory

phy2sll2

You loved the AirZound, now check this out!

http://www.turbospoke.com/Default.aspx

I'm considering buying a load and handing them out to people who are too cool for lights.

jonginge

Anyone remember these?
http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com ... ektar.html

Clever Pun

JonGinge wrote:

Anyone remember these?
http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com ... ektar.html

ha, yes. a mate had one. rubbish to ride but cool for a nipper

jonny_trousers

Wrath Rob

I was about to post this too. Thinking of getting one to both look cool at the lights and also to stop fekking pedestrians leaping out in front of me. I wonder if they do a carbon can version for race bikes?

Mind you, how funny would it be to do CS8 with one of these, scalping all and sundry. Might have to go and check prices...

phy2sll2

Turbospoke paceline down the embankment, perhaps?

seataltea

JonGinge wrote:

Anyone remember these?
http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com ... ektar.html

There's one on Fleabay now, ends in an hour, you know you want it.

mudcow007

Winner!!

http://www.firebox.com/product/4364/Tur ... m?aff=1108

phy2sll2

Not sure it works with bladed spokes or disc wheels though...

...and for that reason, I'm out.

SimonAH

Actually, with a set of poncy low-spoke count wheels you'll get a really low frequency compared to the frenetic howling from 32 spoke wheels!

With a four bladed arrowspoke you'd zip through the peleton sounding like your engine was just ticking over, scalp with complete nonchalance

Harry182

We had the ghetto version of this when I was a kid -- baseball cards + clothes pins = magic. For extra horsepower (read "noise") some of the more progressive kids tied balloons to theirs seatstays.

mtb-idle

SimonAH wrote:

Actually, with a set of poncy low-spoke count wheels you'll get a really low frequency compared to the frenetic howling from 32 spoke wheels!

With a four bladed arrowspoke you'd zip through the peloton sounding like your engine was just ticking over, scalp with complete nonchalance

a bit like a 4-stroke versus a 2-stroke engine!

chadders81

seataltea wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

Anyone remember these?
http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com ... ektar.html

There's one on Fleabay now, ends in an hour, you know you want it.

£44 with eight mins left. Collect from Matlock though which is the arse end of nowhere.

I suspect if it was collection from N16, it would go for £150 and get ridden round Dalston by some hateful Nathan Barley type.

Headhuunter

phy2sll2 wrote:

You loved the AirZound, now check this out!

http://www.turbospoke.com/Default.aspx

I'm considering buying a load and handing them out to people who are too cool for lights.

Never seen anything so pointless... Let me get this straight, it's a lump of metal that you bolt onto your bike (added excess weight) to make it sound (but not look) like a motorbike... If I wanted a motorbike I'd get one!

se-po

phy2sll2 wrote:

You loved the AirZound, now check this out!

http://www.turbospoke.com/Default.aspx

I'm considering buying a load and handing them out to people who are too cool for lights.

You can get the same result fixing a postcard on the fork, touching the sprockets.
It could be useful when riding Central, pedestrians never watch!

FoldingJoe

phy2sll2 wrote:

Not sure it works with bladed spokes or disc wheels though...

...and for that reason, I'm out.

Simple, grab one of these

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/xmas-2008-kids-bicycle-motorcycle-sound-gadget.htm

I used to have one of these things on my bike when I was a nipper!!!

phy2sll2

Headhuunter wrote:

phy2sll2 wrote:

You loved the AirZound, now check this out!

http://www.turbospoke.com/Default.aspx

I'm considering buying a load and handing them out to people who are too cool for lights.

Never seen anything so pointless... Let me get this straight, it's a lump of metal that you bolt onto your bike (added excess weight) to make it sound (but not look) like a motorbike... If I wanted a motorbike I'd get one!

Yeah, I should point out I was being sarcastic. I don't even like having bottle cages on my bike - feels like it spoils the lines!

cyberknight

Not liable to do your spokes much good ?

And yes i remember the days of using clothes pegs and a bit of cardbaord on my raliegh grifter, the spokes like the rest of the bike was "bombproof " or weighed a ton ....

redvee

JonGinge wrote:

Anyone remember these?
http://ijustwantaneasylife.blogspot.com ... ektar.html

Saw one in Brizzle, but red, 'parked up' by McDonalds, meant to gedt a photo today when I saw it. Will try on monday if I can remember that far ahead.

Agent57

Harry182 wrote:

We had the ghetto version of this when I was a kid -- baseball cards + clothes pins = magic.

Me too, although the cards were generally Star Wars bubble gum cards. Helped that I had a Grifter, which looked like a motorbike anyway. Kinda.

The other thing was to tuck the plastic flap of the mudguard back under itself, so it rubbed against the tyre tread. That only worked for a while though; until the flap had been worn away...