Light Up Your Night Ride (+ Bike Glow Giveaway)
07. Mar, 2011 
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Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, a big, gaudy, fun revelry before Lent. If you are decorating your bike before riding your bike down to a torchlight parade tomorrow, you’ll want to check out the coolest product that we’ve seen for fun midnight urban rides. It’s a great product for the practical side of night visibility as well. You need to be seen at night to be safe. Your bike needs brightness beyond just the bling. Light up the night!
The Bike Glow Safety Light is a 10-foot light tube that comes in four colors (red, blue, green and yellow) that can be wrapped around a bike frame. It is lightweight, and weather resistant and the light can be adjusted to change from a steady light to a slow flashing one to a fast flashing mode. The Bike Glow light tube can be wrapped securely around the frame and attachment ties can be used if desired, although we did not need them ourselves. The power unit is lightweight as well and requires 2 AA batteries. REI is one of many stores that carry them. Retail price: $25
We thought this was a fantastic product and it is going to get you noticed on your night rides from the sides as well as the back or front. Yes, I still have my front light and my flashing red light for the back, but this adds another level of safety! (Note: the night photo above was taken without a flash and gives a good idea of how it looks at night.)
Another Great Giveaway!!
We’d like to offer this great product to one of our lucky readers! Just tell us how you’d like to use the Bike Glow Safety Light this spring or summer in the comment section below to be entered. Contest runs for just over two weeks starting today and ending on Tuesday, March 22nd. Please give us your real first name (at least) and e-mail. We can mail our giveaways within the US & Canada. CONGRATULATIONS to Catie of Everett, WA!! She will be using the “Bike Glow Safety Light” and will be ridin’ like the “Electric Horseman”!! ENJOY!!
We have a few fun ideas for you. Here’s a short list of some fun family-friendly night rides across the country. Many of them have great themes and costumes are usually a part of the fun as is decorating your bike for a night out on the town. There are many more rides out there than are on this list, but if you have one you’d like us to list, let us know and we’ll post it here with a link for more info/registration.
A Few Fun Family-Friendly Night Rides
- The National Park Service offers a special ride at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico: the Full Moon Bike Ride which is held twice a year: Saturday, April 16, 2011 (registration opens for that next week) and Friday, October 14, 2011.
- Friends of the Park’s L.A.T.E. Ride in Chicago, Il. –July 9/10, 2011 Enjoy a 25-mile ride through Chicago’s neighborhoods and along the lakefront.
- The 18th Annual Antelope by Moonlight Bike Ride, on Antelope Island, UT, is planned for July 15, 2011, non-competitive ride at night during the full moon from marina tothe historic Fielding Garr Ranch, about 22 miles round-trip
- Moonlight Classic -July 16, 2011. Denver Colorado’s night ride begins at the State Capitol and funds raised will benefit seniors.
- In 2011 Boulder Cruiser Rides will host twenty Wednesday night rides (7pm-Midnight). They all have fun and varied themes. (Check out their website for details on Sunday rides and Bike-in Movies and rides that end with a free concert.
- The Night Ride–BTA’s annual night ride every July. The Night Ride is a late night bicycle ride around Portland, Oregon. Thousands of people come riding every year to show off their lit-up bikes, dress in costume, party at the disco, sing along to the group karaoke video show and eat unlimited midnight doughnuts at the Portland Train Station in Downtown Portland.
- If you’re near Lenexa, Kansas, check out the famly-oriented Lenexa Midnight Bike Ride which is held in July.
- There will be prizes for the best-decorated bike and the best bike costume at the Anthem Moonlight Ride in Fairfax, Virginia. It will be held on August 13, 2011
San Diego’s Midnight Madness is a fun night of cycling, contests, prizes, and entertainment to support community youth programs. The 38th annual event will be held on Saturday August 20th, 2011. The cycling route is a 18-mile, primarily flat loop course along some of San Diego’s most beautiful waterfront and historic areas.- The 2nd Annual Moonlight Cowboy Ride wil be held in August 2011 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- In September, Savannah, Georgia will have their Midnight Garden Ride It is a non-competitive, nighttime charity bike ride through Historic Downtown Savannah, benefiting the Savannah Bicycle Campaign – a non-profit advocacy organization working for better bicycling for Savannah and Chatham County. The night streets of Savannah will be turned into a wave of blinking lights, music and pedal powered fun.
Kickball starts up this Spring and I ride my beach cruiser to the park for most of the games. This light would be fun!
PICK me! PICK ME! This makes my heart HAPPY, I would not only put this on my bike to ride at night…..I would get all wrapped up to take my dog running. I LOVE this AMAZING idea, thank you BRILLIANT people!
I’ve never ridden my mountain bike on a night ride…this would hopefully keep the mountain lions and rattlesnakes a safe distance away (and maybe I’d see the cactus before I’d run into it)! : )
My sweet husband, a 64 yr. old heart attack survivor, has lost 40 lbs. since his attack by riding his bike. He has started to ride at night in our neighborhood and I want him to be highly visible to all the drivers (esp. those who don’t observe the speed limit.) It would be a wonderful surprise for him to receive one of these fantastic lights! Thanks for bringing us news of great products!
Wow! One of those would make me feel much safer riding home from the wind tunnel after dark. (Nearly 2 miles of my commute home is on a road with no bike lane, no shoulder, and a 50 mph speed limit with no safer alternate routes.) On the fun side, I would have the neatest, flashiest ride for the Courteous Mass ride in my town next month!
This would be perfect for an early morning ride.
A great new local bike shop here has started doing family evening rides once a month. They have a great turnout. Sure would be fantastic for our whole family to show up with our bikes lit up like this!
I would love this for very basic and practical reasons. Sometimes I get out before sunset on my ride, but by the time I make it back, it is really, really dark and spooky! Plus, it would look super cool!
I love this! A very fun way to make bicyclists more visible at night (along with the usual front and back lights, as well). I’ll have to see if there’s a night ride in my area!
I commute back and forth to work. I leave at 4:30 am. With this light I would really be seen by motorist!
How cool! I live in the Great PNW. It’s hard to ride in the winter here. It gets dark early and doesn’t get light until really late. Commuting to work on my bike is a passion, but really difficult on those dark, wet days. I think this light will add some much needed spice to my winter wonderland. I’d feel like the Electric Horseman.
I could use this on my bike for any ride! Especially in the darker months or dreary days around here. Sure would motivate me to go out for a fun ride.
This would actually be pretty perfect for a stroller too which would make our late night strolls a lot safer!
I would love a light so I could start riding at 5 AM before work!! Please!!
I hardly ever ride on the road after dusk because I just don’t think my little red flashing light is enough to make a driver notice clearly me, I’m sure this light makes SURE that drivers see you. I also hope they make a dog version I can stick on my pup when she’s off lead in the forest when the sun goes down! :-p
I would give this as a gift to my Mom. She bought a recumbant bike last year and absolutely loves it. She even got my Dad to spruce up his old bike and take it out around the neighborhood. I think she would love this!
This looks so fun! I’d definitely be using it for that Night Ride on Antelope Island. I never knew that there were moonlight or night rides like this either other than “bike party” rides, thanks for the info!
I live in the pacific northwest, so it’s gray often year round… but I think these lights would be great for a late-night ride!
What a fun way to be seen at night on my bike.
This is so cool! Being a big SciFi nut, I would look so awesome riding at night with these lights!! In Houston we have Moonlight Ramble around Halloween that I’m going to ride in this year. What a great way to lead the pack (I’m a bit competitive)
http://bikehouston.org/moonlight-ramble-3/
Kelly
I could really use this I am always riding at around 3:00 or 4:00 am and any kind of light to make me more visiable is a blessing. I live off of two very busy roads in raleigh NC. So for me to ride I have to go one of these road. You don’t want to be in a car on them let alone a bike. These are also just the cutest things. They would make my ride really awesome
Though I ride single track or road nearly everyday, I also take my granddaughter on the trailer bike on rail trails. She would be so excited if Mamaw showed up to take her through the tunnels with this light on her bike!
My new black bike needs some bling!
My boys would think mommy is AWESOME with these lights! Nothing better than getting high fives on being cool from your kids! These lights would be perfect for early morning rides and dreary days we get during the fall-spring months here in the Midwest.
5 years ago I had open heart surgery to repair a bicuspid heart valve. After a full year of bike riding, multiple organized rides and riding during the winter, I have learned that being visible to drivers is a must. This light would not only help me during the winter (and my husband – who was nearly hit in January), I would use it for every ride, as some of my “quick” rides land me coming home after sunset because of a flat tire or poor timing on my part. At the STP last July, our crew rolled over the finish line just after the sun set, this would have been a nice to tool to have on hand for that day! Thank you for offering this cool product to your readers!
I commute 25 miles each way to work in most weather. I would LOVE to have some Bike Glow action to be really visible in the wee hours of the morning and the evening.
My wife and I work all day and have 3 girls . We love to ride bikes with our children but dark when we get off of work . Tried several different lights on bike so we can all ride at night but just not enough to be safe. This product would allow us to ride with our children and so we can have quality time and exercise that everyone needs.