paulg22

Do you find it effective? It's reasonably cheap, I was looking at the Loud Cycle horn as well that's a couple of car horns in a box with a a battery, but $179! and not sure if they ship to the UK. I'd not really anticipate fisticuffs - it's much more about cars not seeing me - cycled to the chip shop yesterday evening and on the way back nearly got battered by a car turning right across my path and another pulling out on me...

Sorry Andy, poor choice of language on my part - the item I linked to in my original post is a DC-DC step down converter on Amazon - 20a for thirty quid. Would assume that would work? https://www.amazon.co.uk/XWST-Step-Down-Converter-Voltage-Transformer/dp/B09CTNBBDC?th=1

As a long time lurker on this forum thought I'd pop my head above the parapet. Getting a bit fed up of close passes and people pulling out on me on the commute and thinking about some sort of air horn solution. I've had one on my motorbike for years and, whilst used very sparingly I've found it very effective. I know there's been a couple of threads here on the past, but not seen any solutions bar the thing that uses air pressure or a canister. I've got one a Stebel Nautilus on my motorbike and thought that this step down transformer connected to a 36v feed from my bike battery would do the trick. The horn draws 18 amps at 12v, so reckon the 20a transformer should do it. Would just need a push switch on the bars and then an on off switch between battery and transformer - I ride the bike without electric assist quite a lot so would like the the horn available when power to the bike's off. It's a Whoosh XF08A kit - any suggestions on the best place to take a feed from, or any other thoughts?

I fitted it well before I fitted the electric kit to my bike, but I went for a hub dynamo and it's the best thing I've ever done to a bike (well, maybe electric kit apart). Suddenly you don't have to think about lights at all - when it gets dark you just press a button on the handlebars. Expensive, but once fitted that's it, no losing them, having them pinched or having to recharge them...

Thanks all. I was (perhaps naively) wondering whether I could get something that would just plug in and let me use the light switch on the display to turn it on. I've got a decent 18650 torch and picked up a cheap bar mount off Amazon and reckon that will do the trick! Hopefully I shouldn't need it as the Dynamo light's plenty bright enough to see by and pretty reliable.

Hi, I've had a Wooshbikes XF08-C for the past three months and it's been a game changer - new job meant a 30 mile round trip to work (or an hour each way by train) and couldn't be happier a pedalling along the canal rather that sitting on a train! Conscious that the nights are going to start drawing in, I'm thinking about lighting as 2/3 of my trip is along unlit canal towpath - I've got a good dynamo system with a decent front light that's up to the job, but thinking about a backup light - is there something that I can connect to my conversion kit that I can switch on with the Kingmeter display? The likes of bike.discount have eBike front lights - can I plug them in, or is it a wiring up job?

I'd have bought it, but needed a kit back in May and got the XF08-C too (plus I don't have a square taper). Very happy with it mind

You press and hold either the plus or minus button?

I can recommend Weeride as a bike seat for your young 'un. My four-year old sat in it from about 9 months old and loves it - being in front of you it's much easier to chat and it feels safer. https://www.weerideuk.co.uk