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The most efficient and new oil-saving way to lubricate your bike-chains

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Imagine trying to paint a wall with a paint-soaked cloth, versus a paint roller. No points for guessing which one’s more effective, right? The paint-roller perfectly holds and applies the paint in an even, perfect coat, without spilling any onto the floor or without getting your hands dirty. Let’s flip the scenario a bit… imagine doing the same while applying oil to your bike chain. The GREEN DISC offers an easier, faster, more efficient, and less wasteful method of lubricating your bike’s chains in a matter of seconds. Unlike using an oil-soaked rag, your hands, or a squeeze bottle, the GREEN DISC uses a freely rotating lubricator wheel to evenly and efficiently coat your chain with a uniform coat of lubricant, without spilling any oil on the floor, and without getting your hands or clothes dirty.

The GREEN DISC builds on its previous iteration, the LUBRI DISC, which went on to win multiple awards including the German Design Award. The GREEN DISC holds as much as 25% of more oil than its predecessor, and is entirely biodegradable, including its plastic housing, lubricator wheel, as well as the lubricant inside. Applying the lubricant means just holding the roller against a gently rotating chain. A GREEN DISC can lubricate a chain up to 10 times before needing to be replenished with lubricant – and just the way a foam paint roller efficiently uses paint without any wastage, the GREEN DISC does the job without oil dropping to the floor or getting on your hands and clothes. Once done, the disc fits right into its air-tight metal box which you can slip right into your pocket, storing it for another day. Refilling the GREEN DISC from time to time is as simple as popping the lid off, adding a little oil to the lubricator wheel, and clicking the housing together.

Using an oil-carrying roller, in hindsight, sounds like an idea we should have had a long time ago. It’s more effective, less messy, and cheaper in the long run, given that you don’t waste a single drop of oil in the process. Besides, the GREEN DISC is biodegradable, right down to the BIO CHAIN LUBE, a natural lubricant that comes along with each GREEN DISC (although you can use any common chain oil with the disc). Go ahead. Your bike, hands, and white tee shirts will thank you!

Designers: Jorg Neugebauer & Kai Wiehagen

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GREEN DISC – Lubricate your Bike Chain in Seconds

A new chapter in eco-friendly and convenient bike care. The GREEN DISC lubricates your bike chain in seconds without dirtying your fingers. It’s small, refillable and easy to handle – Just let it roll.

Hold the GREEN DISC between your fingers, press it slightly onto your chain and let your crank rotate backwards. Lubrication is now fully automatic. Two to three turns – that’s it.

The freely rotating lubricator wheel is an applicator and lubricant reservoir in one. It applies just the right amount of lubricant your chain needs while absorbing fine metal abrasion.

How Does It Work

While rotation, the soft lubricator wheel adapts to the shape of the chain and lets the stored lube penetrate between the plates and over the rollers up to the pins. Once filled, its capacity is sufficient to lube your bike chain up to ten times.

A Product for a Lifetime

The GREEN DISC can be easily refilled and has an unlimited lifespan. The lubricator wheel is interchangeable & biodegradable. It is made from natural raw materials – without any plastics.

The Ecological Power Pack

Their BIO CHAIN LUBE protects your chain as well as the environment. With components based on plants and degradable additives it is eco-friendly and easily biodegradable without missing excellent wear protection. Its extremely good adhesive power and guarantees a low-noise and smooth running of your chain.

No oil splashes around, no oil leaks when you carry the GREEN DISC in your pocket. Move it, shake it – nothing will happen.

With GREEN DISC You Save Up To 90% Chain Lube

With GREEN DISC no oil flows into the rag, no oil splashes around. No harmful substances get into the soil and groundwater. Less pollution, more riding pleasure.

A Proven Concept. Refined.

GREEN DISC is the further development of the LUBRI DISC, which has just won the GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2020 for its innovative functionality. The GREEN DISC works according to the same technological concept, but offers 25% more storage volume for your lube, saves raw materials by a new locking mechanism and is therefore even more environmentally friendly!

Tech Facts

– Works with all bicycle chains
– Refillable
– Unlimited life span
– Works with all common low to medium viscosity oils
– Not suitable for waxes and solvent-based lubricants
– Dimensions: approx. 68 x 20 mm (2.5 x 0.75 inch)
– Weight: 40 gram (1.4oz)
– Interchangeable & biodegradable lubricator wheel – offered as replacement.

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FLECTR’s reflective clip-on instantly makes pedestrians and cyclists visible in low-light settings

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With years of reflector-science experience under their belt, the guys at FLECTR are back with yet another accessory that promises to keep people safe at night. Manifesting its form in the avatar of a clip-on device, the FLECTR CLIP brings reflective technology to a nifty wearable that can either attach to your bag, body, or to the rear of your bicycle.

Built with FLECTR’s award-winning micro prismatic reflective film, the FLECTR CLIP comes in three body-varieties that let it hang from the back of your bike’s saddle, slide onto the strap of your messenger/sling bag, or magnetically snap anywhere on your clothes or backpack. The saddle-unit features two cuts that sit on the rear of your bike, while the strap-mount slides onto virtually any webbing up to 52 mm (2″) in width. The magnetic mount offers even more versatility, with a counter-magnet that allows you to snap the clip anywhere on your clothes, ensuring low-light visibility.

Bringing enhanced visibility to your bike and your person, the FLECTR CLIP makes stepping out at night or early in the morning measurably safer. The clips work off ambient/stray light and don’t require any internal energy or power input of their own, allowing them to stay illuminated for as long as you use them. Available in three colors, the clips are even designed to be flexible yet indestructible, allowing you to use and reuse them for years… because safety is something you should practice every day.

Designers: Jorg Neugebauer & Kai Wiehagen

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FLECTR CLIP – Your Ultimate Protector in the Darkness

The FLECTR CLIP comes in three different designs and it lets you be seen instantly. Just clip it to your bike, bag or clothing.

For joggers, bikers or pedestrians, the FLECTR CLIP keeps you safe in the darkness and catches any car driver’s attention before it’s too late.

Three Designs, Endless Possibilities

FLECTR CLIP is a family of 3 universal safety parts. Three designs, endless possibilities.

All FLECTR CLIPs are flexible and virtually indestructible. Manufactured in Europe both sides are reflective.

The Strap Mount version fits any webbing up to 52 mm (2″) width. Front color: fluorescent lime green, the back is silver.

FLECTR CLIP for Saddle Mount is the ideal rear reflector for almost any bike. The team have chosen a special color – neon red-orange – for this reflector. It reflects almost twice the amount of light as classic red. Its backside reflects silver, like all other CLIPs.

The magnetic CLIP is a little workhorse. With its strong built-in magnet, it can be worn on any clothing, (a counter-magnet is supplied), or attached to bike bags and steel surfaces. Front color: fluorescent lime green or orange, back: silver.

Are Reflectors Better Than Electric Lighting?

Reflectors do not require maintenance and are still there for you even if your lighting fails. Cheap clip-on reflectors are often paired with tiny LEDs. In fact, inferior materials are almost always used here.

Ultimately, when the battery is empty, you realize a change is hardly worthwhile. Regarding cycling: Reflectors and bicycle lighting both form a system and should always be used together – you decide how much safety you need to feel comfortable cycling. Both increase your visibility for car drivers when riding at night.

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A camera carrying system that keeps camera handy, supports your creative workflow.

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There are things that seem so logical and so right when you see them for the first time that you wonder why they weren’t there all the time. The SPINN camera carrying system is just like that. Designed for all professional DSLRs – and for DSLM cameras that are becoming increasingly popular – this system offers the comfort and handling benefit, that standard eyelets on every camera simply do not offer.

The strap is usually attached at the top of the camera so that it swings, rotates and moves. Carrying the camera becomes a real pain, especially if you’re using a larger zoom lens. Not to mention, how the strap gets in the way of your face every time you look into the camera’s viewfinder – a problem with a high annoyance factor, as it permanently disrupts a fluid and creative working subliminally.

With the SPINN CP.01 camera plate, the camera fits your body perfectly and the straps don’t interfere with your workflow, neither when you´re shooting handheld – nor from the tripod. It shifts your cameras center of gravity from top to base, where the strap is fixed now. The optimal distance of the eyelets leads to a perfect balance on your body, and so carrying the camera will be incredibly easy. In the chosen position it rests bombproof, and in the crucial moments, you will intuitively grab it.

The Spinn CP.01 is made to perfectly fit any DSLR or mirrorless camera through its reversible and slightly asymmetric design. Multiple slots allow you to choose a configuration that fits your camera the best. It is also designed to be compatible with the internationally widespread Arca-Swiss standard, making the CP.01 work with almost all commercially available tripods. Each CP.01 comes CNC machined from aluminum, ensuring precision, reliability, robustness, without noticeably weighing down the camera.

To seal the deal, Spinn even offers a handmade, broad-width strap that feels comfortable and distributes the camera’s weight without letting you feel the pressure!

Designers: Kai Wiehagen & Jorg Neugebauer

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Flectr’s Award-winning bike-reflectors are back with color variants!

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You may remember the FLECTR 360 OMNI from last year. The German Design Award and Eurobike 2018 Award-winning sticker promised to make bicycling safer without any extra effort than installing these film-based, adhesive reflectors on your bicycle rim. Using a microprismatic film, these stickers reflect ambient light in all directions with full intensity, making them instantly visible. Just attach them on the rims of your bike and they enhance your visibility manifold, making your otherwise silent and unsuspecting bicycle immediately noticeable to pedestrians and oncoming traffic in low light conditions.

The FLECTR 360 CL now comes back in a set of colors. With a wide variety to choose from, the FLECTR 360 CL comes in colors like yellow, amber, red, blue, and even daylight black, which reflects silver in the dark, and becomes a regular discreet sticker at other times. The reflectors come pre-cut and can be further trimmed down with the help of backside cutting aids, allowing them to fit universally on all bicycles. The stickers come in a pair of two for each wheel, maximizing reflection and ultimately visibility.

The FLECTR 360 CL’s ultimate design brief remains to continuously make bike riding safer in low-light conditions. The reflectors work without needing a power supply or source, relying on the scattering of light to emit a powerful glow. Weighing a mere 2 grams, the reflectors also make sure that they don’t affect the bike’s performance or aerodynamics, but in turn provide high visibility, drastically cutting down low-light bicycle accidents.

Designers: Kai Wiehagen & Jorg Neugebauer

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The award-winning FLECTR 360 (the only 360 degree reflector that also features highly reflective microprismatic design) is now in eight vibrant colors and new comfort features on top.

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FLECTR 360 CL is the first line of defense for your night ride. This reflector wraps razor-thin around your rims and from wherever car headlights are approaching, it grabs the driver’s attention. All around, without exception.

Many cyclists do without reflectors for aesthetic reasons, but you can now ride safer and choose what suits your beloved bike best. The design makes the difference; total visibility from any viewing perspective.

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Choose from unicolored, colorfully mixed or in the proven highly reflective silver color.

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From left to right: Silver (high microprismatic reflection), Amber (high microprismatic reflection), Citrus Yellow (standard reflection), Azure Blue (standard reflection), Orange (standard reflection), Ruby (standard reflection), White-silver (standard reflection) and Daylight Black (standard reflection / reflecting silver in the dark).

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FLECTR 360 CL is the only wheel reflector with 360 degree visibility for bicycles, which overlaps the rim vertex twice and doubles the reflective effectiveness by its form factor. The two-piece FLECTR 360 CL overlaps the rim vertex and guarantees double gapless reflection.

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FLECTR 360 CL comes with an enhanced adhesive for better repositioning during application. It is also equipped with an optimized rear cutting aid for easy size adaptation.

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Installing FLECTR 360 CL is also very easy!

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FLECTR 360 CL fits almost every rim with its protected and registered design and is made from 3D formable custom films. No wrinkling or lifting-off. It offers a reliable bond and a dirt-repellent surface.

Reflectors have an advantage over electric lighting – they do not require maintenance and are still there for you even if your lighting fails. But both, reflectors and bicycle lighting form a system and should always be used together.

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Bag a Black Friday Special with the Sexy FLECTR Reflectors

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Cycling your way to fitness or to work, is certainly on the rise and I’m trusting your knowledge on the environment and health impact it has, so I won’t elaborate. What I’d like to draw your attention to, however, is the supporting gear that makes it safer for you to bike, everyday. While you may have a hip Tee and branded shoes in place, are you doing enough to be visible? Agreed that there is nothing sexy about reflectors on biking-wheels that make you visible beyond doubt, but thankfully we have innovations like the FLECTR reflectors.

The designers (Kai Wiehagen & Jorg Neugebauer) of FLECTR have managed to make reflectors a must-have, by employing modern technology and design principles that make them innovative and award-winning products. The design is split into two categories: classic spoke-based reflectors, and following the trend of large-volume rims: rim reflectors.

Let’s talk about the classic spoke reflector – FLECTR ZERO. This reflector does everything that well-known reflectors can do. However, it is much smaller, without any air drag and only 10 percent of the usual weight and use of raw materials. An ecologically beneficial power-package that really fits every bicycle.

Talking about rim reflectors, the FLECTR 360 OMNI offers a lot more than the usual bunch in this segment. This reflector forms a unit with the rim and converts it into a 360 degree reflector. The visual impact of this is such, that wherever a car headlight may hit the bike, FLECTR 360 Omni will grab the driver´s attention, making the biker visible with a stunning glow. FLECTR 360 OMNI also includes cutting guides to help trim its size to suit your wheel-type. Thus completely customizable.

Important Features:

– FLECTR reflectors use of metallized cube corner prisms, which are applied to a special, almost indestructible carrier
– This carrier is in turn is attached to the bicycle with a custom adhesive that is not available on the common market
– The reflective intensity is up to five times stronger than the traditional glass bead technology used on many reflective parts for bicycles

Although they have been around only for two years now, FLECTR reflectors are helping people across the globe to make their cycling journey a lot more safer. In fact they won many awards for these innovations, including the coveted “German Innovation Award” along with the Eurobike Award two years in a row.

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Be smart. Be seen. Be safe.

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FLECTR ZERO is designed with a similar aerodynamic drag to a dart’s flight thanks to its narrow profile.

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FLECTR 360 OMNI’s clever design makes use of the wheels’ rotation to enhance visibility all around.

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FLECTR 360 OMNI melts with your bike’s rim with a weight of just 2grams.

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Within just two years, FLECTR received lots of awards and award nominations for their design-orientated safety parts – ISPO BRANDNEW FINALIST 2017 // EUROBIKE AWARD WINNER 2017 // GERMAN DESIGN AWARD WINNER 2018 // GERMAN BRAND AWARD NOMINEE 2018 // GERMAN INNOVATION AWARD NOMINEE 2018 // EUROBIKE AWARD WINNER 2018 // GERMAN INNOVATION AWARD NOMINEE 2019

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Discreet by day, but vibrantly glowing at night – FLECTR ZERO fits every type of spoke.

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FLECTR ZERO is also available in silver and yellow matching all regional needs.

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With a simple cut along the integrated cutting aids FLECTR 360 OMNI adapts to every modern rim.

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The Award-winning Wheel Reflector That Instantly Make Biking Safer

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Bicycles have always been the healthier way of commuting, but there’s still a long way to go to make bicycle riding as safe as sitting inside a car. Bikes are fast, but incredibly quiet, and given their size, they aren’t as visible as a car with its flashy headlights, taillights, and loud horn. So in a world that desperately needs to re-embrace cycling as a way of commuting, the FLECTR 360 Omni wants to provide a small-footprint high-impact solution to make bicycling safer.

The FLECTR 360 Omni are superiorly engineered adhesive reflector panels that provide 360° coverage. From wherever a car headlight may hit the bike, FLECTR 360 Omni will grab the driver´s attention making the biker visible with a stunning glow. Designed to be mounted on the rims of a bicycle’s wheels FLECTR 360 Omni requires no electronics, battery, or upkeep. The FLECTR 360 Omni lights up your wheels by reflecting the headlights of all vehicles around you, making you visible to avoid collisions. The panels kick in immediately when it starts getting dark and one’s visibility begins reducing, eliminating the need to remember to switch it on. It simply works when necessary and remains inconspicuous in bright daylight. The 360 Omni comes in a unique parallelogram shape that fits well over any sort of wheel rim, and FLECTR also includes cutting guides to help trim its size to suit your wheel-type.

The breakthrough for the 360 Omni is its use of metalized cube-corner prisms for reflectors rather than relying on simple glass bead technology. The prisms help reflecting light more efficiently back to the light source, turning it into a bright shine on your wheels. Weighing in at just 2 grams, the FLECTR is lightweight and has a zero impact on the bike’s performance or aerodynamics. The FLECTR 360 Omni lights up when the bike’s static, creating distinct, visible patches of light, but things get even more interesting when you’re riding your bike. FLECTR´s rotating, pulsing and moving reflections light up the entire rim, dramatically increasing one’s visibility, making bicycling much safer.

Designers: Kai Wiehagen & Jorg Neugebauer

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FLECTR 360 OMNI wraps razor-thin around your rims and from wherever car headlights are approaching, it grabs the driver´s attention. All around, without exception.

360 degree visibility. Multi-direction reflectivity increases your safety.

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Non-static light patterns. Rotating, pulsing and moving light grabs extra attention.

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No air drag & no dynamic imbalance. With a set weight of just 2 grams, FLECTR 360 OMNI leaves your wheel´s performance unaffected.

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Custom reflective film technology. Unique 3D conformable film with reliable bond & dirt-repellend surface.

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One size design. With a simple cut along the integrated cutting aids you adapt FLECTR 360 OMNI to your rims.

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Microprismatic technology. Highest possible reflection from thousands of metalized cube-corner prisms. Forget about simple glas bead reflectors.

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How it works. The arched profiles of modern bike rims offer a perfect base for an adhesive wide-angle reflector as there are multiple plains for reflection. The two-piece FLECTR 360 OMNI wraps around the rim from both sides and overlaps onto the rim vertex. The advantage: gap-free reflection from all sides.

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Are reflectors better than electric bike lighting? Reflectors have a big advantage over electric lighting – they do not require maintenance and are still there for you even if your lighting fails. But both, reflectors and bicycle lighting form a system and should always be used together. You decide how much safety you need to feel comfortable cycling.

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