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UnknownStuntm...
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PostPosted: 14:30 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: want: mobile alert flashing light for bikers? Reply with quote
I know there's a motrax one, that actually looks like it might do the job, but it seems to me there aren't many options for someone who wants a plain, simple, flashing light clipped to the top of the screen or perhaps on the yokes. Anyone offer any alternatives?
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Swim41
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PostPosted: 15:54 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
For an economical alternative you could set your phone to vibrate and carry it in your y-fronts. This would alert you to incoming calls.
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
^ what he said Mr. Green
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Im-a-Ridah
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PostPosted: 17:54 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ebay for "mobile flashing" and look in the phone accessories section Smile
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PostPosted: 18:00 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Swim41 wrote:
For an economical alternative you could set your phone to vibrate and carry it in your y-fronts. This would alert you to incoming calls.


I'd be worried about what all the telephone signals and radiation would be doing to my balls. Laughing
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UnknownStuntm...
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PostPosted: 18:05 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im-a-Ridah wrote:
ebay for "mobile flashing" and look in the phone accessories section Smile
Go on then have a karma cookie - I looked for ages on eGay but never saw the ones I got from typing such simple words in. <facepalm> Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:14 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why not wear phone headphones and set your phone to automatic answer, Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:47 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
david_m213 wrote:
Swim41 wrote:
For an economical alternative you could set your phone to vibrate and carry it in your y-fronts. This would alert you to incoming calls.


I'd be worried about what all the telephone signals and radiation would be doing to my balls. Laughing


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PostPosted: 18:52 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Is missing a call really that much of a disaster?
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PostPosted: 22:07 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Swim41 wrote:
For an economical alternative you could set your phone to vibrate and carry it in your y-fronts. This would alert you to incoming calls.
and give you a cheap thrill to boot Laughing
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PostPosted: 22:31 - 19 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I'm riding the phone can wait. Smile
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UnknownStuntm...
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PostPosted: 07:13 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scouse wrote:
Is missing a call really that much of a disaster?

Nope. Not a bit. The phone never does get answered when I'm driving or riding. But I'd like to know when it's been ringing all the same.
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PostPosted: 07:32 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scouse wrote:
Is missing a call really that much of a disaster?


It is in my house. My missus hates me being on the bike and if she is feeling particularly neurotic then she will ring me. If I haven't called back within 10 minutes then "he's probably wrapped himself around a tree". I wear shorts with pockets under my bike trousers and I tend to feel it vibrate.

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PostPosted: 09:54 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
UnknownStuntman wrote:
Scouse wrote:
Is missing a call really that much of a disaster?

Nope. Not a bit. The phone never does get answered when I'm driving or riding. But I'd like to know when it's been ringing all the same.


Mobiles have this trick that when you look at the screen it tells you that you have missed a call without the need of buying tat to do it for you.

Better still turn it off before the ride and you will never have any missed calls. Thumbs Up
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UnknownStuntm...
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PostPosted: 10:55 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok let me just qualify this request for assistance for the hard-of-thinking among you. If I'm on the bike I don't answer the phone. I wear gloves and a leather jacket where the phone is inside an internal zipped pocket. It's not all that easy to get to, and if I've not had a call, I don't really want to go to the effort of getting the gloves off and getting the phone out.

It's really not too much of an imagination stretch for anyone to think of a need to know if I've had a missed call is it?

I imagine all those who aren't in a relationship with someone who cares a lot about them are the ones who don't get the idea.

Minty - you're on my wavelength. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 10:58 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Buy a mopod. Bit more interesting than a flashing light. Laughing

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PostPosted: 11:04 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Minty wrote:
It is in my house. My missus hates me being on the bike and if she is feeling particularly neurotic then she will ring me. If I haven't called back within 10 minutes then "he's probably wrapped himself around a tree". I wear shorts with pockets under my bike trousers and I tend to feel it vibrate.

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I don't get that, I never call him when I know he's on the bike, cos I don't want to be distracting him at all. I'll wait patiently for a text to say he's arrived safe.
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Polo
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
shellshock wrote:
Minty wrote:
It is in my house. My missus hates me being on the bike and if she is feeling particularly neurotic then she will ring me. If I haven't called back within 10 minutes then "he's probably wrapped himself around a tree". I wear shorts with pockets under my bike trousers and I tend to feel it vibrate.

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I don't get that, I never call him when I know he's on the bike, cos I don't want to be distracting him at all. I'll wait patiently for a text to say he's arrived safe.


If I am out for a ride that has no destination and I am looking to 'make good progress' Wink then it can be quite a gap between stops. Night time is worse as she knows my night vision sucks.

The fact you are on here suggests you like bikes. My missus hates everything about them and certainly does not want to know what goes on when I am out.
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PostPosted: 13:36 - 20 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Id just buy a phone which lets you no you have a missed call and who from, I Thought most phones have done this since the early 90's.

Then once stopped look at your phone "Oh damn it i have a missed call from Dave, Call dave Ring Ring Ring Ring Etc.
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