Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Vodafone has launched a smart light which includes a tracker and takes a sim card:
https://cyclingtips.com/2021/06/vodafone-curve-bike-light/
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Vodafone has launched a smart light which includes a tracker and takes a sim card:
https://cyclingtips.com/2021/06/vodafone-curve-bike-light/
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Sounds good - in theory. I would like to know more about the claim that it is "attached to round seatposts with theft-resistant hardware".
Theft resistant then, hmmmm! Even if a thief can't remove the base unit, the easy way round that is obviously to remove the seatpost; no great hardship to ride the bike to the waiting van without a saddle and seatpost. But it's a step in the right direction and could be interesting. They might even waive the £3 monthly fee to existing Vodafone customers if we're lucky.
Theft resistant then, hmmmm! Even if a thief can't remove the base unit, the easy way round that is obviously to remove the seatpost; no great hardship to ride the bike to the waiting van without a saddle and seatpost. But it's a step in the right direction and could be interesting. They might even waive the £3 monthly fee to existing Vodafone customers if we're lucky.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
It looks like it secures around the seat post with a single allen (security bolt).
Unless im missing something, Im not sure that it really justifies its claims that it uses "theft-resistant hardware" unless the target thieves are primary school children.
It has some nice features though.
- Location
- Inside my skull
Doesn’t everyone use their rear light to make calls?
- Location
- London
those who talk out of their arses?
(meanwhile work on my high-power suppository rear light is progressing well)
- Location
- Inside my skull
or when calling Trump
- Location
- London
i didn't notice the theft resistant claim.
how's about unclipping your rear cateye when you walk away from the bike?
- Location
- Inside my skull
More seriously the sim will be for the tracking bit to talk over a data connection to a Vodafone server or some such. So it can update its location when out and about. No doubt set via an app or some such.
winjim
Smash the cistern
How could it alert you to the theft of your bike, if it's not attached to your bike?
The light bit does come off, and the base bit goes woo woo and phones you up if your bike gets nicked.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Even the dumbest tea leaf will know to remove that - any blunt isntrument, or even the same grinder they used to cut the lock, will remove that in an instant. Even the dumbest tea leaf knows that Vodafone has worse customer services than either British Gas or the British League of Fascists.
The whole lot is about as useful as a solar powered torch, or a rain powered towel.
The whole lot is about as useful as a solar powered torch, or a rain powered towel.
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- Inside my skull
If an attempt is made to remove it, without first deactivating; a self destruct sequence is triggered.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
That is possible by the looks of it, but i would assume that the part of the "sensing movement" GPS feature wouldn't be useful anymore. My take on that is that it designed to send an alert to the bike owner if someone is messing about with your bike so they can return just in time to find the light in bits on the floor with the bike missing...
