Comments on: UV drip bicycle tracker

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:17:15 +0000

It’s also not scalable, since you’d have a hard time tracking anything down if many people were using it in the same area.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:34:49 +0000

Miked what the hell are you still doing here? I thought you went of to make your own little HAD?

By: miked

miked — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:46:35 +0000

as anyone that has ridden a bike knows, you are almost guaranteed to get your a$$ wet. oh yea, i do not approve of this post.

By: dielectric

dielectric — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:30:33 +0000

rats do pretty much the same thing, but with urine. they use it to navigate inside your walls and in your basement where it’s dark.

By: michaelb

michaelb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:54:33 +0000

Brings leaving a trail of breadcrumbs to a whole new level!

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:00:56 +0000

Wasn’t this already done by “The Three Investigators”….

Admit it, we all read those books as kids because they were totally better than the hardy boys.

By: Haku

Haku — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:58:23 +0000

loosenut, exactly what I was thinking, surely it would’ve been better to have it drip directly onto the road or pull a 1-wheel trailer so the water drips onto that wheel.

What exactly sort of hack is this? there’s not even any real article about the contraption, just a video and what’s with that? it just shows someone shining a blacklight onto a bike wheel with UV reactant dye on the tyre – where’s the video of the trail left by the tyre??
Furthermore you’d need a pretty powerful blacklight to find & follow the path laid down by the tyre, and to prevent damage to your eyes some of those yellow UV filter glasses.

By: loosenut

loosenut — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:33:42 +0000

somehow i dont think having a constantly wet rear tire is the best idea.