Am 15. Mai um 19:50 Uhr läuft im MDR ein Fernsehbeitrag über Magnic Light in der Sendung "Einfach-Genial" .Neues aus der Werkstatt gibts auch. Neu entwickelte Formteile für den Generatorkern sind eingetroffen (erst mal für weitere 12 Testmodelle) und gehen danach in Serie - sofern alle Tests erfolgreich überstanden werden. Schon jetzt freuen wir uns darüber, dass mit den neuen Formteilen, ein Großteil der manuellen Arbeit erschlagen ist, indem ehemalige einzeln zu montierende Zusatzteile in die Form übernommen worden sind.
Für alle Tshirt -Backer: So siehts aus und sollte schon in den meisten Briefkästen liegen. @Christopher, Anwar und Axel: Eure Shirts kommen leider erst nächste Woche- sind beim Versender leigen geblieben und kommen mit der nächsten Lieferung.
Die ersten 3000 Magneten kamen heute mit der Post zum Mittagessen an. Den ersten Qualitätstest mit dem Besteck haben sie überstanden wie man auf dem Bild sehen kann. Aber bevor sie ihre zukünftige Arbeit aufnehmen können, werden hier noch ein paar weitere Komponenten benötigt...
Der Veranstalter der "Berliner Fahrradschau" hat uns eingeladen, um Magnic Light auf seinem Event in Berlin vorzustellen (http://berlinerfahrradschau.de/view.php?id=9a3743c420b2124b4a6adcd5aa447ecf )
Ich werde Magnic Light am Sonntag dort präsentieren und kein eigenes Rad dabei haben, sondern bekomme von Ausstellern Räder gestellt. Es gibt immer noch Leute, die glauben, dass in den Laufrädern Magneten versteckt sein könnten. Das sollte bei fremden Laufrädern schwierig sein ;-)
Magnic Light was at the Taipei Cycle Show (one of the three main bicycle trades worldwide). Here is the summary:
Last Wednesday I started at 5:00 AM at home and drove to Frankfurt Airport, started at 10:40 in Frankfurt - 12 hours later in Taipei at local time 6:00 AM at 8:00 Am at the hotel - at 9:00 at the Taipei Cycle until 18:00 PM. Two more days at the Taipei Cycle on Friday and on Saturday and back to Germany on Sunday evening.This was hard but is was more successful than I ever expected. Although nearly noone knew I would be at the Taipei Cycle nearly everybody passing the TIMAC booth- a distributor from Taiwan where I got a bike and some place to demonstrate Magnic Light- stopped and watched the strange lights.
I didn't count but it felt like it was several hundred times I let a ball magnet run down an alumnium rack with slow speed to explain the physics behind Magnic Light.
(I found this video on Youtube- Thanks!)
And it seemed more and more people where coming and even more and more large companies and distributors among them. First people stopped accidentally but with the passing of time they seemed to come targeted and even more on Friday. Then someone told me, that in his eyes Magnic Light would be the main innovation of the Taipei Cycle which felt like a nice but exaggerated compliment- but then I heard this again and again. So, true or not this is at least very encouraging and when the Kickstarter project passed the 100% after the first day in Taipei it felt really great!
But what does this all mean for our Kickstarter project?
You - the backers of this project are responsible for our success, because you have trusted us while many people outside in the web thought this project was just a joke. From now on the bicycle market is keen on Magnic Light and maybe close on our heels. So it is clear we don't want to stop after delivering the Kickstarter version to you but go on since the potential is amazingly high.
This means we will invest more money in the development and your Kickstarter version will draw profit from this, while it will still remain unique (carbon version) and much cheaper than versions that will follow (because on Kickstarter we can deliver without distributors and dealers in between).
Should it become reality that Magnic Light revolutionizes bicycle illumination then you should have an eye on your Kickstarter version, because it may become a hot collector's item with an historical touch. So if you are a collector and have pledged for a light you should better stop promoting this project from now on since the collector's value decreases while the size of the unique Kickstarter edition increases;-)
While it turns out more and more that this project is the start of a permanent business we want to fix the following for the future of Magnic Light:
1 We will give our best that Magnic Light will be a fair business.
(fair to people doing the production, fair to customers and fair to the market)
2 no second point.
Companies thinking about a copy should notice that cooperation may be more successful because otherwise point 1 can't be applied on them.
What comes next in our final countdown:
The weather forecast is fine so we'll start our Magnic Night (200 km long distance test to the Netherlands and back) on Wednesday, March 14th at 21:00 PM.
And- can anyone tell the Kickstarter people that they might consider putting us on their start page only one time and only for 5 minutes to make a screenshot? - because this may be the first time a relevant technical innovation starts its way on their wonderful platform;-) I would love to print a poster but only if it's real.
I just come back from 40km Magnic Cycling and this evening I am really excited! It is the first time I have tested the new Magnic Light prototype outdoor because after some wet days here in Germany today the weather is fine (the new proto is not water proof actually). I am so excited because I did not expect such an improvement! The light is stronger and the road is really very good illuminated even to the left side because the diffuse lense is now on top. And the light starts when you just move the bike a little bit, mainly because we have changed the magnet composition. (Ok- this will cost us some extra money but if you see the difference there is no alternative).
One problem:I still have no good camera to make nice photos from the cyclists view- I try to borrow a professional one the next days.
So for today I just have this image of the new proto at my dirty bike. If you wonder why the carbon has a beamless surface: this was just a test but we are going to present one with a polished surface in a smaller tube within the next days. And after this nice test today it looks like we'll also have a Magnic Night next time which is going to be a hard core test all night long.
