The Urban is a beautifully designed light in which form meets function in a small and powerful package. The Urban 180, 300 and NEW Urban 500s are packed with features and deliver more lumens per gram than anything in their class.
The Urban projects a powerful and graduated beam of bright white light to provide the cyclist with high visibility and a long-line of sight – See and Be Seen. One touch High-Medium-Low-Flash provides multiple output settings for urban riding in dense traffic day or night.
The amber side emitters of the Urban provide cyclists greater visibility at intersections where over 70% of accidents occur.
The Urban delivers accurate battery charge status, so you are never left wondering if you will make it home on the current charge. And, the all-in-one system means that there are no external batteries or cables. This rechargeable system saves you more than $800 over the life of the light vs. throw-away battery type lights and is better for the planet too!
With amber side emitters for 180 degrees of visibility, tool-less mounting for bar and helmet, and an accurate battery gauge indicator, the Urban answers the performance and safety requirements of the most ardent commuter.
If you are heading to Interbike this week stop by and check out our new line of lights! Light & Motion will be at booth #19105.
Your weekly dose of our favorite links:
- Bike share has a chance to come to Portland. If you’re a PDX local speak up and voice your support.
- Speaking of bike share, San Francisco just launched a pilot program.
- Team DART-Nuun-Sport-Multi has been rocking it at Raid the North Extreme Race. Follow along in the last few days of the race.
- Need a good new bike blog to read? We’re digging Elly Blue’s Taking the Lane.
- New Yorkers can rejoice in the fact that biking is up 14% in the Big Apple compared to last spring.
- Can’t figure out what to wear on your next ride? How about some new People for Bikes schwag?
Happy Friday!
Image: Eugene Hood Photo
Light & Motion sponsored team Team DART-Nuun-Sport-Multi is rocking it this week at Raid the North Extreme Race, and they’re looking good to place among the top three teams. The crew is made up of elite athletes who each have an extensive list of participation in long-distance events including triathlons and expedition-style adventure races like Atmosphere Raid the North Extreme. This year’s team will be comprised of Mari Chandler, Matt Hayes, Aaron Rinn, and Cyril Jay-Rayon.
“We have a competitor field with lots of depth and experience this year,” says Race Director Geoff Langford. “In adventure racing there are many game-changing variables that can alter the outcome of the race. Nevertheless, I think we can safely say that WildernessTraverse.com, WEDALI and Dart-Nuun-SportMulti will figure among the strongest teams.”
On the map above Team DART is #10 and currently in 3rd place! Thanks to Facebook we’ve been able to stay up to date with them:
Wednesday July 27:
Team 10 dart-nuun FTM arrived our location(boundry of valhalla provincial park 17k from cp10) at 3:40AM and trek through to cp10. they look great and were in goods psirits. Greatt to see the team in their element. rmember that they have a 1.5hr time credit for late bin and will get a sizable credit for last part of trek. most likely nott enough to over come wilderness traverse’s lead.
The Twelve - Steel - Bike Polo from TheTwelve on Vimeo.
Ever tried your hand at bike polo? If you haven’t, this video, filmed in Paris, France, is sure to inspire. And if you’re a bike polo pro, we’re sure you’ll appreciate.
Welcome to Life in Motion, a weekly feature where we bring you some of the best in bike related videos. Shorts, trailers or just viral goodness, check back every Wednesday for a good mental health break.
We can’t get enough of this video done by our friends at Osprey Packs.
What do you do instead of driving?
By Meredith Miller
It’s mid-July and that means only one thing in the cycling world — the Tour de France is in full-swing. Unlike any other sport, the cyclists “play” for 5 to 7 hours each day for three consecutive weeks (with only two rest days).
Each team starts with nine riders and each one of the riders has been chosen for a specific reason depending on his strengths. A rider may be selected to win a stage, take the sprinter’s jersey, contribute to a strong team time trial, help a teammate win a stage, or, even better yet, win all the glory — the maillot jaune (The yellow jersey worn by the leader of the le Tour). Each team will have different goals at the Tour and each team will build its roster accordingly, but one thing that is necessary on every team is the support rider, or domestique. Regardless of the stage profile, domestiques are just as important as the rider slated for victory.
San Francisco is right up the road from Light & Motion HQ, and this video does a great job of capturing the spirit of an afternoon bike ride out of the big city and to the water.
Welcome to Life in Motion, a weekly feature where we bring you some of the best in bike related videos. Shorts, trailers or just viral goodness, check back every Wednesday for a good mental health break.
What happens when you send a bunch of XC mountain bikers down a hill in the dark? Red Bull Monte Descend of course. Watch the video and you’ll see what kind of craziness we’re talking about.
This year there were some strong lights to lead the way, and the effects were — if we’re being honest — glorious.
Very excited to have taken part in such an incredible event!
More photos on the Red Bull site.
Images: Manon Jaques and André Lyra
It’s hard not to be impressed by the skills of Danny MacAskill. In Way Back Home, we follow him from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye. Not your average bike tour, that’s for sure.
Welcome to Life in Motion, a weekly feature where we bring you some of the best in bike related videos. Shorts, trailers or just viral goodness, check back every Wednesday for a good mental health break.
It’s a good day here at Light & Motion: our expanded commuter line is finally out!
To complement our VIS line, we’ve added the Urban 180 and Urban 300 bar lights.
What’s exciting about these lights? Lots of things.
- USB rechargeable
- 300/180 Lumens
- 76% Lighter than the leading competitor
- Amber side lights
- Battery status indicator
- Tool-less mount
And those side lights mean that you ride safer.
“Urban is feature-packed with details that make it a terrific commuter light. It ‘s powerful side markers to make you visible at intersections to turning cars which is where 72% of bike accidents occur. It is the smallest, lightest, easiest-to-use light we have developed.,” says our CEO Daniel Emerson.
Ride on!
Fran on 
Chantel Touryan on 
jacob on