Comments on: Review: Monkeylectric’s Monkey Light bike wheel spoke light

By: Cannoe

Cannoe — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:05:05 +0000

I’m riding a roadbike and tried a few spoke light that comes to the market. First i thought i’m lucky that i came across this monkeylight. Doon after i tried it for a week and i got the same problem with power button that i could not turn it off and i frel terrible to remove battery off everytime i get off my ride. It happens to both models so i switched to another brand and just keep these monkeylights in a drawer.

By: Ralston Pereira

Ralston Pereira — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:03:12 +0000

Has any one see a problem where the power button on the mokeylectric lights don’t work and you cannot turn the lights off. I tried resetting it ot factory defaults and still no luck. the only way to switch off the lights is to remove the Battery

By: noel

noel — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:41:10 +0000

i’ve had both monkeylectrics and hokey spokes and while i haven’t tried the anvii lights — they just seem like a ripoff of the hokeys with the added “function” of programming your patterns.

monkeylectrics are way brighter and don’t rattle…the monkey’s ran out of batteries quickly and drove me nuts with the constant rattle -
i’ve ridden thousands of miles with monkeylectrics on my wheels, no joke, and i haven’t had to true my spokes more so than usual.

i love my monkeylectrics, best design, brightest colors and always great when i ride around and go party…and about the customer service, i’ve never really needed to use them besides wanting to buy more for my other bikes or my friends

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:57:37 +0000

Tell those MonkeyLectric guys that if they can get their product to sync together, FAR more durable, and lower the price as much as they can. And then I might be able to consider purchasing 4.

Otherwise it would be nice if they had a more “step down” model (perhaps with less patterns and/or colors?), so that poor commuters can still pimp out their bike.

It’s an almost great as can be product, I’m glad they continue updating things. It shows signs of ingenuity. I love the idea, but I’m just a mere student. I can’t dish out $200 bucks out of nowhere.

Great review! Thanks for the info. I was looking between the Hokey Spokes and MonkeyLectrics.

By: Night Rider

Night Rider — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:44:25 +0000

I have one Monkey Light that I bought for $65.00 (compared to $29.95 for Hokey Spokes). They are heavy and when you attach them to your wheel it throws your wheel off balance. If you try using two of them to balance the wheel, you get a gibberish image because they are not in synch. Hokey Spokes use infra red to communicate with one another. You can balance the weight and don’t feel like your wheel is out of balance.
Hokey Spokes are waterproof and shock resistant. The new design addresses the IR coming on from random signals.
But the best thing to like about Hokey Spokes is the customer service. If you have a problem you can call them and they will answer the phone to address your questions. Did you ever notice that Monkey Lights do not give you a number to call or an email address to send questions. What they are saying is, “You’re on your own, kiddo!” When I call Hokey Spokes I get to talk with a real person, there to help me with the product. Before you do business with some company, make sure you can call them. Make sure they give you a phone number to call. Make sure they back up their product with technical support. As for Monkey Lights, I guess they don’t have a real office in the jungle.
I’ll stick with Hokey Spokes for a lot of reasons!

By: x-light

x-light — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:29 +0000

after bought anvii lights, hokeyspokes, monkey lights. I enjoy the functions of anvii lights the most. It allows me to draw own patterns. Both hokeyspokes and monkey spokes do not have this function. The installation of anvii is quick simple. Though, you need to get to know how to do it at the begining.

By: kooldoff

kooldoff — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:06:13 +0000

Hi Dan,
thanks so much for offering the coupon towards monkeylectrics! Just wanted to let you know that since they have a new model the discount is really 10% not 25% so you may want to change this posting.

By: jenni has her head in the clouds

jenni has her head in the clouds — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:36:49 +0000

I was just looking into getting the monkeylectrics, your blog was super helpful in giving me all the extra info, Thanks so much!

By: How to iterate towards your ideal commuter

How to iterate towards your ideal commuter — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:56 +0000

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By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:35:38 +0000

I am very like anvii LED Bicycle Wheel Lights. It can program text message and draw your pattern on pc.