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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I think the biggest one for me was a remote horn.

    I thought it would be great for city riding, since it was loud and could also be used as a car alarm, but for my bike.

    Unfortunately, it suffers the same fate as the wireless dropper post in the article- a bad rubber band that moves, and extremely poor battery life. I think it’s accelerometer or whatever it uses for motion detection in car alarm mode drains the battery.

    Also, to make matters worse, no pedestrians or other cyclists with airpods in can hear you approach. Though this is also the same with my car horn and air pods, so I’m not sure why I’m surprised. Airpod users certainly are when they ride though a blind curve tunnel and can’t hear the horn that is as loud as a motorcycle horn.

    The unexpected Ws- a rearview mirror for my city bike, and a suspension seatpost from Suntour. You can see cars and bikes overtaking you from behind for the former, the latter is great on a rigid bike with no suspension.