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Okay bicycle people, this is the unboxing or the
unpackaging
of the 'Bike Glow'.
And we're gonna read these instructions now and put this on my bike and see what happens.
So the first thing the instructions say to do is to remove the screws from this
little battery compartment here.
They give you this little philips screwdriver here which is kinda nice because a lot
of times you might have a philips screwdriver but maybe it's too big and it might
strip the screws. So anyway they give you philips screwdriver.
And we're going to use it here and unscrew these screws.
And this one's starting to come off here.
So we'll try the other one.
Got that one done.
Take the latch off here.
And then it says to
Put the double a_ batteries in opposite.
So you put one of them in like this.
And the flat side of the other one it says it's supposed to go like this so
that the spring on the lid touches the flat side of the battery.
And then we put it back in.
Grabs screwdriver again.
Looks like we're gonna have to
play around with this a bit to get it back in.
You kinda gotta hold the lid down there to get it back in. But it's not
too terribly difficult.
And with that it should turn on and oh in fact it does turn on. i'm not sure how
well you can see that.
I don't know if you can see in the lighting here but it's fairly bright, and it flashes.
We're gonna throw this on my bike now
and see what looks like at night.
Okay we've got our Bike Glow here.
We've got the Bike Glow and the chord, and we got the strap,
and now first thing we do is strap this thing on.
So we're gonna take our strap here, and it says in the instructions to put it on a seat tube
I'm gonna put it right here.
On the seat tube sometimes you move up and down and not too much probably not very
often at all but if someone else rides your bike you might so I'm gonna put it right here
and there's a little groove here you can see
and basically
what you can do now is just
strap it right here
and I'm going to slide the strap in
Just kinda snug it up here a bit.
And there you go.
Now the next thing we gotta do
it says to be creative in how you want to put it on your frame so I'm gonna
start looping this around the frame here.
Well we'll take it out tonight when it gets dark and
see what it will look like in the dark.
Side visibility when you're riding your bicycle at night so
incredibly important.
From studies i've seen your more likely to get hit from the side than you are from behind.
So when i put this light the first thing I notice is its nice. It's a good lookin'
light. It's bright people can see you.
Is it the coolest light out there? I don't know there's so many different side visibility lights
out there now,
that it's hard to say but the price tag I haven't seem too many of them.
In fact I don't think I've seen any of them in this price range.
For about twenty five bucks you're in there with side visibility.
And so if you're a budget like I am this one might be worth looking at.
The packaging says it's durable and it works well in the rain and such.
I'm not sure if that's true or not
I have been ridden my bike
in the rain with this light yet but i will likely do that over the next few
months and after I do so I'll post a follow up video and let you know how it's going.
In the meantime hope you found this useful and ride (your bicycle) safe.