Drop bars with integrated LED headlight.
Power on /off via bar end knob.
+Resilience
The Thread lighting solution is theft resistant, requiring thieves to unbolt and steal the whole handlebar to get the light. Current lights can be unclipped and walked off with easily.
+Speed
Because current lights are so theft prone, users unclip them themselves and carry them with them, then clip them back onto the bike when they return. The Thread light doesn’t require that. Just twist a switch on or off.
+Intimacy
A momentary pushbutton switch under the rider’s thumb allows them to flash the light to signal to cars or other riders, or to cut out the light completely to avoid alerting pedestrians to their approach. (It’s better if pedestrians don’t notice a messenger coming and try to move out of the way.)
Auto Locking and Unlocking chain bike lock
+Resilience
The Thread Lock locks automatically when the user brings the two ends into contact with each other, and unlocks when the user returns to within six feet of the bike. While it’s locked there are no orifices to pick the lock though, and the wireless electronic key uses the same encrypted technology that automotive key fobs use. All this makes the lock extremely theft-resistant.
+Speed
Tested to be over 5x faster than a chain and padlock, the Thread lock takes 3 seconds to lock or unlock. Using the Thread lock doesn’t require any physical manipulation of a key. The user simply puts the ends together to lock it, and pulls them apart after it’s already unlocked automatically. This configuration makes it significantly faster than U-Locks or chains with padlocks.
For quick access, the lock connects magnetically to a messenger bag strap via the included magnetic strap sleeves.
This helmet might be on it's way to production, so I can't detail the functionality.
US Provisional Patent 61866135
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Thread Urban Cycling
Bicycle messengers are growing on the public consciousness, with numerous documentaries covering their aggressive riding as they deliver packages in dense cities. Despite that fact, no cycling gear brands have centered themselves around messengers or their following. Chrome brand messenger bags are the closest product to do so, and have excelled even among non-messengers.
Messenger-style riding is more similar to the challenges faced by commuters and other city riders than is competition road cycling, and therefore provides a better “extreme user” to design a line of products around than competition road cyclists, which brands like Specialized and Trek spawn from.