Comments on: Schwinn’s Enlightened ‘Vestige’ Bike

By: semfi

semfi — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:31:20 +0000

when will it be ready for sale?

By: stingraybaron

stingraybaron — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:40:20 +0000

There are so many headlight/tail light options out there. Why limit somebodys choice to just a dynamo operated system? This will be the only bike out there with a glowing frame, I’d think it would really grab a driver’s attention. Cool to see Schwinn at the cutting edge again!

By: chunkymonkeybiker

chunkymonkeybiker — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:42:01 +0000

The problem with drivers hitting bikes is not being able to see them from the front or back. It would make more sense to have a lighting system that illuminates from the front or back. Maybe a glowing handlebar and glowing seat so drivers can see bikes from the front and back.

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:35:08 +0000

@Rob E, FTW: They should add an integrated frame pump that is neither presta nor schrader compatible, but is instead used to blow air across your coffee to cool it.

By: Ted Johnson

Ted Johnson — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:21:26 +0000

Maybe. The chain locking it to the bike rack was very rusted, and the tires were completely flat. I’m thinking it had been there for more than a week. Maybe more than a month.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:00:17 +0000

You’re stretching things a bit to refer to that older Schwinn as looking abandoned. It looks no more abandoned than does your new bike parked next to it.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:57:16 +0000

Vestige ?

They couldn’t come up with
a better name then VESTIGE ?

–noun
1. a mark, trace, or visible evidence
of something that is no longer present
or in existence:

2.a surviving evidence or remainder
of some condition, practice, etc.

3.a very slight trace or amount of something:

4.Biology a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure
that has little or no utility,
but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.

5.Archaic . a footprint; track.

By: Jim Gladstone

Jim Gladstone — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:47:22 +0000

Don’t they have to use epoxy resin on that flax fiber? How eco friendly is that?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:09:29 +0000

Its weird how expensive “eco” design has gotten, because we all know the most eco thing you can do as a bike purchaser it repurpose an old bike that has already been built. I also question the durability of a frame made from flax seed. If you leave it out overnight will animals chew on the frame?

By: Rob E.

Rob E. — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:09:09 +0000

Oh no. I saw the Vistage mentioned elsewhere, and I thought, “That’s kind of cool, but how does the frame lighting affect your ‘real’ lights?” I guess the answer that it doesn’t affect them because there are no “real” lights, nor a way to power them without disconnecting the frame lights. If that’s the case, then, yes, completely gimmicky. I would guess, although possibly incorrectly, that there would be a way to make head and tail lights run off the dynamo as well as the frame lighting, but it seems crazy that they don’t make it easy and rather assume that you want to ride around with a dynamo hub and not use it to power your lights. They should add an integrated frame pump that is neither presta nor schrader compatible, but is instead used to blow air across your coffee to cool it.