The Loud Bicycle blog has a new home

We have come a long way from our Kickstarter days – and in the most recent development our website www.loudbicycle.com has completely moved over to WordPress. Your favorite posts will still be available here, but for new content please head over to loudbicycle.com/blog. Thanks for being with us on the journey to road safety town!

E-Bikes Getting Well E-quipped with Loud Minis

The Loud Bicycle horn and e-bikes are like peanut butter and jelly—they go together so well!

We'd like to show off one of our customer's slick e-bike rides equipped with the slickest accessory of them all: our Loud Mini horn.

Bill's Civi Cheetah

This magical monster of a ride comes from Bill Tateo of Knoxville, TN:

It's a Civi Cheetah e-bike in midnight black, with a 7-speed Shimano system and 750 watt geared hub 48volt 17.5 mah battery, and 5 pedal assist modes! Bill added the seat, a Fito lumbar support, as well as full fenders, pannier bags, rack, fork bag and most importantly: OUR LOUD BICYCLE HORN👌

Mounting

As you can see, Bill mounted his Loud Mini underneath the downtube. He used a large-tube GoPro mount ingeniously to do so:

"I used it today and like magic the car stopped and let me by!!! I can't thank you enough for such a great safety feature all bikes should have! I've had it a little over a week and put 105 miles—a real pleasure to ride!" —Bill Tateo

Thanks for sharing your joy and excitement with us — and your novel mounting solution.

Keeping families safe with Loud Mini

Peter Stormare (who you may have seen in such blockbuster hits as Fargo and The Big Lebowski) contacted us recently, because he wanted to share with us how much he and his family loves our horns. He rides with his daughter, Kaiya, to school every day, and wouldn’t dream of doing so without their Loud Minis in tow.

This month, we at Loud Bicycle would love to see more families riding together, and so we’re going to take Peter’s sage advice and help more families around the world to get LOUD. Please sign up for our mailing list and check our social media feeds on facebook and twitter to see how we can help you.

If you’re as excited about family ridership as we are, we hope that you’ll Loud Bicycle and help your family to become a Loud Family :)

Happy leaves-crunching-under-tire season!

—The Loud Bicycle Team

Podcast Loud Bicycle Makes Bicycles Safe

Great discussion about bicycle safety on the Evelo Electric Bikes podcast.
 

Loud Bicycle, believes that one of the ways to improve safety is to speak the language of the road. – Jonathan Lansey

Bikepacking with a Loud Brompton Folding Bicycle

Sam Mitchell recently his experience, bikepacking on a folding bike with Loud Mini and we were enthralled ... so naturally we had to share his photos and comments.

The bike I took on a tour to the outer hebrides (300 miles approx) is a rohloff geared 28 speed Brompton! You cant always be on the quiet paths and the slow speed of a tourer, people need to know you are there. Plus the look on a country farmers face as the bike cruises by with the two tone beeping. Pretty good! But I also ride it in London with the horn constantly, commuting bike on steroids. As you can see Loud Mini fits very nicely into the handlebars of the Brompton with some velcro keeping it in place, thus it comes away easily for stowing. It's such a great product. –– Sam 

Here we can see his Loud Mini creatively sandwiched in there - though we recommend hanging Loud Mini from the handlebars as shown below.

Here is a photo from @luisggpina  of Loud Mini attached the way that is easiest on a Brompton folding bike.

Loud Classic and Airplanes

Amazing photo from bicycle rider and skydiver Slobodan Markovic. He sent us this quote about the photo:

"german bike, American sound, assembled in Serbia"

Even New Yorkers hear the Loud Mini bicycle horn

Watch 3 minutes of New Yorkers jumping out of their skins when they hear Loud Mini.



Thanks Bike Mi Vie for sharing the video.