As a cyclist, I’ve always felt somewhat invisible in traffic

I came to realize that a bicycles low profile can make them hard for motorists to see especially at night.

I looked at existing bicycle taillights and found that they fail to consistently grab motorist's attention

To be distinctly visible to motorists it’s not good enough for a taillight to just be bright.

Today’s bike taillights are either too small or just blinding ambiguous blobs of light that float vaguely in the dark.

VizMo’s extended luminous surface area with 180 degree visibility has the continuity and mass to solidly register in the driver’s visual field as a large bright solid object moving before them.

Height plus surface area are an advantage in traffic: VizMo’s brilliantly lit extended surface with its high mounting stands out and is more easily seen both in the midst of traffic and from a greater distance down the road than the existing small, low profile, below the seat lights - especially by motorists in taller vehicles like SUVs and trucks.

And so I came up with VizMo: a taillight raises bike’s visibility and presence in traffic.

VizMo sits on an omnidirectional pivoting spring which allows the light column to easily move in any direction pushed making it easy to get on and off the bike yet it's sturdy enough to keep the light from wobbling during rides.

Mikal Belicove, FORBES Magazine, said this about VizMo: “As a 100 percent bicycle commuter until I was 36-years-old, I love this. Wish it was around when I was riding full-time.”

Vizmo's pivot in action - rechargeable batteries in light column of final product.

DELIVERY TO BACKERS/TIMELINE

The manufacturer has already completed the majority of the design when they created the prototype shown in the video and pictures on this Kickstarter page.

Final design, testing, and refinement will take place between August and October. The production run will begin in November and we plan to start shipping VizMo orders to backers in late November, 2017 - we will work hard to make an even earlier delivery possible.

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