Not that many of us need a new carbon commuter and I think they could do a better job with the tracking of a lost bike (won’t be many of these on the road at the beginning), but an interesting concept nonetheless.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1931822269/vanhawks-valour-first-ever-connected-carbon-fibre
It’s pretty hard to do the tracking better. You’d need to use GSM or some other global communication protocol, which means you have to have a contract with telecom providers everywhere the bike might end up. That makes it expensive since you need long term contracts and all. You could have a phone app for anyone to use though so that if anyone with the app passed by your bike it would trigger an alert, but then you need people to sign up for the app despite not having the bike. There was an attempt at something similar to this that was integrated with the seat post, so anyone could buy just the tracker (and a subscription?) at some point, but I don’t think it really took off.
It seems like it’s one of those things that’s bound to fail because it needs mass adoption to work well, but once there’s mass adoption, thieves know about it and it’s easy to remove the tracker (or short the electronics or something)…
Making handlebars buzz as a car passes sounds like the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
hahaha, it’s not like it’ll make a difference, when are your handlebars not buzzing on our roads???
I also like how their idea of anti-theft is by making a bike worth more…
Never mind the buzzing, and oxymoronic approach to anti-theft, they don’t even fundamentally understand anything about the machine they are making:
For fuck’s sake. “inspired by nature” is now basically codespeak for “I have no idea what I’m doing”.
And you can’t have a “safe” fixie, period.