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BikeLit lights hang like tiny hipster monkeys from saddles and cables

The problem: you want to use bike lights at night, but you don’t want to ruin the clean lines of your sweet minimalist ride with permanently attached lamps. The solution up until now, at least for fixed-gear riders, has been the “hipster cyst,” aka. the Knog Frog, a silicone creature that wraps itself around the nearest available tube.

Now there’s another option in the easy-to-toss-in-a-bag-and-forget category: the BikeLit, from NiteIze. The round, pendant-like lamp hangs monkey-like from the rails of your saddle by a pair of rubber arms and grabby claws. This — in theory, depending on what you are wearing — puts the light up and back as far as it can be on a bike, stopping it getting covered up by other bike parts.

The white version clips to the brake cables, which is both ingenious and stupid. Ingenious because a proper hipster will have chopped his handlebars down to small nubbins, as dictated by the twin aims of fashion and discomfort, leaving little space for lights. Stupid because a “fixie” wont have any brake or gear cables to which the lamp can be clipped.

Perhaps it could instead be clipped to their septum piercings?

The BikeLits are available now, at $8 each or $14 for the pair.

BikeLits [NiteIze via Urban Velo]

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