The Down Low Glow -- Features & Options

Charge your DLG battery in 2.5 hours, versus 10-12 hours for our standard trickle charger.

Our smart charger makes it fast and easy to charge your DLG battery safely. Just connect it to your DLG battery with the power switch in the ON position. You'll see the charger's LED light turn red. After the charge cycle completes, the LED turns green, and you're ready to cruise again.

You'll feel noticeably safer and more relaxed doing the activity you love.

Front and rear safety lights (blinkies) protect you well in many riding situations. But blinkies are weakest when viewed from the side. Unfortunately, side visibility is the most common cause of nighttime bicycle-car collisions. Every time you approach a turn or an intersection, your side visibility is key to drivers seeing you.

Bike commuting, early morning training, and sunset rides should be inspiring, relaxing, fun and invigorating. And they can be, when you take the right safety measures. To feel relaxed and confident at those intersections, you need to know that drivers from all angles, especially the sides, can see you as early as possible.

That's when the Down Low Glow really protects you. Due to its unique tubular design, high output fluorescent lamps, and integrated chrome reflector, it's even brighter from the sides than it is from the front. It hits the angles like no other light. And cyclists like you regularly email us to say how much safer they feel. Here's just one sample email:

"I’ve become familiar with white-knuckling it down Culver Road [in Rochester, New York] at night as I pass the busy expressway intersections, then two lanes become one, then construction zones and parked cars are added to the mix. Tonight, I felt worry-free. It’s as if someone was laying out a green carpet for me as I traveled down the road." -- Adam Durand, [full review.] [more testimonials]

Easy and flexible mounting kit is great for kids and commuters.

Great for kids and commuters.

When you want to experience Cool Safety in it's simplest form, you'll want to pick up a Single Tube DLG system. Single tube systems look great, are easy to install, and have long battery life when compared to our dual tube systems (5-6 hours versus 3 hours).

Useful for nighttime mountain biking, or for very chattery roads.

The TwoFish bike block is a double cam strap that uses Velcro as the closures. It's available in our online store in the Down Low Glow accessories section. Cam straps allow you to use a pulley to tighten a strap.

Add visibility. Not extra pounds.

Just because you've decided to stay safe and stylish when you commute by bike doesn't mean you want to load your rig down with extra weight. The kid inside you still enjoys edging out that spandex-clad racer to the last gleamings of a yellow light. You love tight turns and fast descents and you don't want your bike to slow you down. Luckily, the Down Low Glow only adds a little over a pound to your bike. You can still lift it up on your shoulder for the flight of stairs to the subway, and you won't notice the difference in your cruising speed.

No need to change your riding style. Go offroad, off curbs, over tracks.

A lot of people ask us if the DLG is suitable for the type of hard city riding they do. Fortunately, our patent-pending shockproofing technique that protects the superbright lamp from breaking inside its housing. You can ride offroad, down stairs, off curbs. Just ride how you normally ride.

The Down Low Glow is also made with a shatterproof exterior housing similar to the material used in bulletproof glass. Rocks and parking meters won't break it. So relax, and ride.

Maximum light for safety and social rides.

Maximize your visibility and the curbside appeal of your two-wheeled thing.

The Dual Tube DLG systems give you the most possible light and help you pull in more "Cool Bike!" shout outs than any other bike light. 

With one shockproof light tube under your front triangle (down tube) and one under the rear (left chainstay), you'll be cruising on a full carpet of neon light.

Turn your favorite activity into a social experience for your friends and family

If you're the bike guy or gal in your family or circle of friends, the Down Low Glow will help you pull people in to the social biking experience. They'll see that biking is the perfect way to relax and get the night started. And with the Down Low Glow, you'll be keeping them safe as you cruise the city or the neighborhood.

Kids as young as 8 can do it on their own. You'll have no problem.

If you're crazy enough to ride your bike in the snow, we're crazy enough to say "Hell yeah!"

Derek from Olympia, Washington is doing it ( www.bikerubbish.com ) . Racer Rolf Hebenstreit from Northern Idaho is doing it. Jeff Youngstrom will probably be doing it next time it snows in Issaquah, Washington, now that his Down Low Glow has arrived.

Adds a trick look to your bike even in the day time

The Down Low Glow's light tubes are lightweight, sleek, and very futuristic, with their chrome reflectors and end caps. They are shockproof, low profile, and water resistant(10 out of 10 recently passed a dunk test).

They weigh next to nothing, as nearly all of the weight in the Down Low Glow system is in the 1lb battery pack. Most of our customers choose to leave them on the bike all the time.

Move it from bike to bike on the fly.

Many bike lights need to be installed with a screwdriver or a wrench. The Down Low Glow has a secure, shockproof mounting system that requires no tools to install. Just stretch the rubber straps around your frame and pop the DLG's light tube into the plastic clip. We searched long and hard at industrial trade shows to find a clip that was easy to use, durable, and sleek. As you can see from the photo above, it doesn't interfere with the brake and shifter cables on your bicyle.