I know. More bike lights. My excuse is that winter is a-coming and any way of getting cyclists to brighten up their rides is a good one.

Today’s bike lamp product is the Dosun J-1 Safety Pedal (or “Safty” pedal, as it is proudly spelled on the unnavigable Flash-site), a replacement platform pedal with a light inside. The pair of old-school rubber pedals each has a small LED bank powered by the spinning motion of the axles inside (or the spinning of the pedals themselves. It’s all relative, as they say), and thirty seconds of spinning fills the capacitors for ninety seconds of flashing, enough to get you through all but the most harrowing traffic-light track-stands.

The lights are embedded in the corners in each pedal, front and back, but because they are all red you might have legal trouble in some countries where the forward facing light should be white. They’re also all-but waterproof and have the added bonus that you could put them on a single-speed hipster-bike and not spoil the clean lines (there are no provisions for toe-clips so fixed-gear riders should stay away). $40.

Product page [Dosun via Urban Velo]

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