Hi Marcus, 

I love your idea! One thing I would like to add is that if riders have an accident, it is possible that a hard shell may cause damage to the rider if it hits their ribs or other body parts. If you could perhaps make it brittle enough to break on impact without having sharp edges this could help this. The hard shell may cause more harm than good. Also, the inertia break light is a very creative idea! If this could be perfected it would be good but currently they do not work consistently. Maybe there could be something to bluetooth to the actual bike lights? This would mean they go at exactly the same time. 

Just a few ideas, good luck!

Rylee

Hi Rylee, thanks for the ideas. I will have to do some more testing in the future but I think that it should be ok not to hurt the rider because I will have an extra strap somewhere on the front so that it will always stay in the same position when it is on so then if you fall off theres no risk of it moving around and hitting other body parts. I hadn't considered that with the inertia break light but I will definitely see if there is some way I can work it out and the bluetooth idea could definitely be a good addition.

Thanks, Marcus.

Hi Marcus,

Interesting idea.

Kind regards,

Joe

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