Do you NEED this or...
 

[Closed] Do you NEED this or is it a technical geek leap too far?

Posts: 49
Free Member
Topic starter
 

[url= https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cobi/cobi-worlds-smartest-connected-biking-system ]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cobi/cobi-worlds-smartest-connected-biking-system[/url]

I can't get much beyond seeing it as a Raleigh Vektar but with my phone included.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 4:01 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Need! Obviously 😆


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 4:47 pm
Posts: 9951
Full Member
 

[img] ?1417723319[/img]

"I'm a passionate biker, tired of the clutter on my handlebars"

Oh, the irony!

Are their times when a handle bar mounted phones make sense? Yes

A mount with a battery boost? yes I get that

One that leaves your phone elements? Really

One that has a built in light, no thanks


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:06 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I didn't realise Germany had it's own version of Hoxton.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:09 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

the sight of your £600 iPhone skittering across the road as you hit a pothole 😥


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:18 pm
Posts: 10334
Full Member
 

Does seem a bit like an exercise in ****y marketing for an app with an light attached.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:21 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I still want one 8)


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:24 pm
 iolo
Posts: 194
Free Member
 

Intergrated? But the expensive looking bell thing isn't.
I'm sure it would be great on a muddy ride in the pissing rain.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:29 pm
Posts: 30656
Free Member
 

I didn't realise Germany had it's own version of Hoxton.

Höxtön?


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:32 pm
Posts: 10334
Full Member
 

I still want one
I like your style


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 5:53 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Besides the necessary items such as Brakes,Gear shifter and grips the only other thing cluttering my bars is a Knog Blinder which must take up all of 2cm.

Its no hardship really to turn my rear light on before I get on the bike,all the rest is superfluous one of the reasons I cycle is for escapism quite often I leave my phone at home otherwise it goes in the Camelbak.

Not for me thanks plus the front light and controller looks like its escaped from Tron.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 6:02 pm
Posts: 13251
Free Member
 

Germans over-thinkng things....

who'd have tought it?


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 6:22 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Höxtön?

😀
I just tried google translate. Apparently the German for "Fixie ****" is "Fixie ****" - though oddly it auto-detected the language as being Indonesian. Anyway "Fixie ****" magically translates to "Fixie ****" in every language, with the exception of China where you would say "?fixie??"
It's clearly one of those meta words like beer, that is just universally understood.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 6:28 pm
Posts: 5153
Full Member
 

Remember how shimano did brake and shifter in one and no one liked them ? That's because loading lots of things into one package is a bad idea. I'm out


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 7:23 pm
Posts: 1543
Full Member
 

Imagine the terror of taking your hand off the bar 😯

And such effective indicators, being at least 1 1/2" off the center-line.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 7:25 pm
Posts: 17983
Full Member
 

I haven't quite figured out what it does. But hey one of the guys did some work for Audi so that's all good.


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 11:29 pm
Posts: 50252
Free Member
 

Höxtön

MAKE THAT A T-SHIRT!


 
Posted : 14/12/2014 11:31 pm