TPX™ Motorcycle Laser Jammer System Awarded "Best of the Web" by MPN Magazine

Our TPX™ Laser Jammer System won the "Reader's Choice: Best of the Web" by Motorcycle & Powersports News.  The award is given to the product that had the most click-throughs on their website.

GlowRider Info Available!

Info on our new GlowRider Electro-Luminescent Jacket is now available on our website, check it out!

IMS Long Beach and a Night Ticket Save

We had a busy weekend at IMS Long Beach with our dealers Legal Speeding and 6th Gear Racing Apparel.

Legal Speeding debuted their new H.A.R.D. System, which is an in-helmet LED warning system.  We teamed up with Legal Speeding in developing their new H.A.R.D. System and you'll notice that it looks a lot like our Wireless Headset.  The new H.A.R.D. System is now compatible with our TPX Radar and Laser Detection System and waterproof as well.

Over at 6th Gear, they had our new GlowRider Jacket on display.  The jacket generated a lot of buzz and we had several magazine editors waiting to get their hands on one to try out themselves.

The show was a three day show and in a rare occurrence, I was able to ride to the show on Saturday.  After the show on Saturday, I grabbed dinner with Legal Speeding and headed home around 11PM.  Traffic was very light initially on the 405 and I was moving at a pretty good pace.  The traffic got a bit heavy around LAX and I dropped my speed to about 85mph.  A few miles past the airport the trusty TPX Detector started going off on Ka band.  Since I was the fastest moving vehicle on the road, I immediately dropped my speed to the flow of traffic, around 70mph.  I scanned around trying to locate the threat but couldn't really do it because it was at night.  The Ka band followed me until right past the 10, then a CHP cruiser went zooming by me.  I'm not sure if the CHP was following me this whole time or just coming up behind me, but had I continued at my pace of being the fastest vehicle, I'm pretty sure that he or she would've come after me.  Thankfully, I had my TPX Detector and I got home without a ticket.

We've got a few more IMS until Spring, and keep an eye out open for us and come check out the GlowRider Jacket!

Upcoming GlowRider Jacket Debuts at NYC Marathon

GlowRider Jacket at the 2011 NYC Marathon!

We've been very secretive about our next product.  There's been a lot of speculations, and at the end of last month, we finally revealed it to our dealers and industry insiders on what it is: a motorcycle jacket.

Why a jacket?  Aren't there literally thousands of different brands of motorcycle jackets in the market already?

Well, yes, there are plenty of jackets out there.  But we are Adaptiv Technologies.  We want to make motorcycle products that are innovative and unique, and yes, our jackets are like no other jacket out there right now.

The name of the jacket is a dead giveaway on the unique feature of our jacket: it glows.

We used ElectroLuminescent (EL) technology and incorporated it into a high quality, all-season jacket.  The end result is a functional, good looking jacket that significantly increases your nighttime visibility.  We have several patents (and patents pending as well) on what we did and everyone who had a chance to see it all agreed that it really does look awesome when it's lit up.

We've been testing our jacket since the beginning of the year.  We want to make sure that the jacket itself is a functional, comfortable, and durable jacket.  We rode through rain storms to make sure it's waterproof.  We rode through the canyons to make sure it's agile.  We rode for miles and miles to make sure that it stays comfortable.  We rode through the cold to make sure that it'll keep you warm.  We rode through the heat to make sure that it's well ventilated.  And we rode through the night to make sure that other people can see us better.

At the end, we have a product that we are proud of.  The jacket went into production a few months ago and we expect to have it available by January 2012.  We can't wait.  We really think that once you ride with this jacket at night, you won't ride with anything else ever again.  At least this is how I feel.

During this time, a friend of mine, who owns a film production company that was hired by the organizer of New York City Marathon, asked if I could help him out for the race.  He needed a competitive runner who is also an experienced motorcyclist to ride a motorcycle or scooter IN the marathon with a cameraman to film the race, and I have these unique requirements.

The NYC Marathon is one of the biggest and most celebrated marathons in the world, and this unique chance to be involved with the event doesn't come by often, so of course I jumped on this opportunity.

I arrived into NYC the day before the race and found out that I'll be riding a Vespa 250, complete with an awesome flame job.  After picking up the bike and went over a few test runs with the cameraman, I was ready for the race.

On race day, I donned the GlowRider Jacket.  It's the first time that the jacket's been out in public.  Even though it wasn't really at a motorcycle event and I'm sure the runners didn't care what kind of jacket I was wearing, it was exciting for me!

For the race, I was to follow Ryan Sutter, a former NFL player but probably better known as the winning bachelor in the very first season of the show The Bachelorette, on First Avenue in Manhattan and then cut over to Fifth Avenue to film other marathoners.

The task turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated.  First of all, riding at low speed with a cameraman constantly shifting his weight on the back of the bike requires much more strength than just regular riding.  Add on several thousand runners around you moving at various paces while trying to stay out of their way definitely didn't make it any easier.  It got even hairier at the water stations, where runners were cutting left and right trying to get their water, some speeding up, some slowing down, some stopping, some literally falling over, and having to anticipate their movements, not get in their way, and riding on a slick surface... it was intense!

At the end, we got our job done.  We didn't run into anyone.  No one ran into us.  We didn't interfere with any runner and didn't piss anyone off.  When I got back to my hotel room later that day, I was totally exhausted and really felt like I had just gotten back on an intense, ride-to-my-limit canyon ride.

It was a wonderful experience and I'm grateful that my friend gave me the opportunity.  I would definitely do it again in a heart beat.

As for the jacket... we'll be releasing more information, pictures, and videos in the up coming days.  Can't wait till January!

Great Gadgets!

The TPX Radar and Laser Detection System and AdaptivMounts are named Great Gadgets by Motorcycle Classics magazine!

When Two Wheelers Attack

A stop light in Taipei, Taiwan during rush hour.

I was in South Korea and Taiwan for a few days last week for meetings with our suppliers.  Every time I'm in Asia, seeing motorcycles and scooters zipping around, it further reinforces my believe of how two wheelers are completely under utilized in this country as a transportation tool.

Most of the people in this country ride for fun.  Few use their two wheeler as their main transportation vehicle.  Even fewer have their two wheeler as their only transportation vehicle.

Now, I understand that it's difficult and/or impossible to ride when the whether is bad, and you can't really carry big things or 2 or more people with it, but in this country, most people don't even consider a two wheeler as a possible transportation method.

I don't need to beat you to death on the benefits of riding a two wheeler over a cager, and as for safety, if there are enough two wheelers on the road, the cagers will eventually change their habit and we can all co-exist in harmony (case and point, Taiwan).  For sure, there will be a learning period before the cagers change their driving habit, but this will also, hopefully, make better drivers out of all of us.

Looking at the riders in Asia, it gives me hope that maybe one day more people will ride instead of drive in this country.

And BTW, for a couple of days in Taiwan, I got to ride this awesome Vino around town!

TPX Laser Jammer on a Non-Fairing Bike

Mouting the TPX Laser Jammer onto a non-fairing bike will require a little bit of custom work and creativity.  This is what we did with our SV650:

We fabricated a custom "U" bracket that utilized the two screws on the headlight housing and affixed the TPX Laser Jammer to it.

The bike looks good with the TPX Radar Detector and the Laser Jammer on it!