WheelBrightz LED Bike Wheel Lights

I ordered lights to go around my tire and my basket. Love them! Easy to install and the lights were indeed bright!

I love wheel lights! The fun, colorful, decorative lights are playful, and the safe practicality of being clearly illuminated from the sides is an actual life saver. So, when my last wheel lights stopped working I knew it was an easy decision to replace them.I purchased and installed my new lights and headed out for my commute. Two blocks from home, I heard a freaky clunking from my wheel and pulled over. Somehow, the battery pack came unstrapped, snapped the wire, and made its way out from my spokes. Tracing back the trail of pieces behind me, the case cracked open, lost the fresh batteries in a pile of leaves, and the battery box door that had broken off was almost immediately run over by a car. Though I was supremely thankful nothing got lodged in my wheel to take me out in traffic, it was still an intense start to a Monday morning. Unfortunately, I didn't even get to use my new lights once before they were toast.I proceeded to spend the rest of the day replaying in my head what happened and what could have gone wrong since the battery box was snapped shut and properly strapped to my spokes, right? It wasn't until I returned home that I saw the broken piece of rubber strap laying on the ground. Presumably, sometime between installation and my commute, the strap had snapped, leaving the battery box to fly off once I started pedaling hard. If I didn't see the rubber piece I would have never even considered it since, in all other respects, it's a pretty hardy strap.I shared this with Brightz directly, and even after a follow-up email from me, I never received any acknowledgment. Take that for what it's worth.I'm just thankful I lived to tell the tale. Check your straps, turn your lights on, and be safe out there, cyclists.

I got these for my bike at Burning Man in 2022. Loved the lights! So easy to install. The strap for attaching the battery pack was easy to use. The lights looked great. Yahoo. Went out for a ride.Unfortunately — the next morning when I looked at the bike, I found that the battery pack from the rear wheel was completely gone. It had completely fallen off the wheel. Lights were kaput.I used tape to reinforce the connection of the front wheel battery pack to the tire. That survived until almost the end of the week, when I noticed it fly off as I rode. Second set of lights useless.Admittedly the ground at Burning Man in 2022 was very washboard. Pretty much constant bouncing everywhere. I imagine that the bands were simply not up to that level of persistent jostling.Still after 10 days of use, less than 50 miles of riding, both lights are completely useless. Maybe these will work for gentle rides on smooth pavement, For anything harsher than that, they need serious help to keep the battery pack in place.I guess the best part of this story is that when the batter pack came loose, it broke the connecting wires and was flung away, rather than getting tangled in moving bike parts.I’d give this 5 stars for ease of use and coolness. But falling apart so fast - sorry, gotta give it 1 star.P.S. I see there are lots of complaints in recent reviews about the strap breaking. I wonder if the manufacturer changed the strap recently. Brightz, notice up!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Update 8/19/23 - About 4 days after posting my original review we received an email from Brightz saying they wanted to make things right, and offering a replacement set of lights. I love the lights, so said yes.We’ve installed these on the bike. I noticed that the band for the battery pack is different than last year’s - very stiff, and more difficult to install. We also zip tied the battery pack to the spokes. Will make it more difficult to change batteries, but they’ll probably last the week, and I’m not interested in risking the lights just to find out if the new band is stronger than the old one.Did learn one thing - it’s important to install the battery pack right-side-up, with the light wires coming out toward the rim. Duh. We got it upside down on the front wheel. The connecting cord isn’t long enough to reach to the rim in this case. See picture.So for now we’re set.Brightz definitely gets credit for quick response. Increasing from 1 star to 2 for good customer support. Will report back again after Burning Man. Fingers crossed.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Updated 9/13/23 Well, the good news is that with the addition of the zip ties, the lights and battery pack lasted all week. Sweet.As luck would have it, one night I noticed a piece of litter (i.e. “moop” - matter out of place) that turned out to be another WheelBrightz battery pack. This was Wednesday evening, when the playa was still very smooth. Looks like their battery pack strap still isn’t adequate.I’ve upgraded the rating to 4 stars - their customer service was good, I like the lights, and I’m OK adding zip ties. Not 5 stars because I still don’t trust their battery pack strap.

Yes! these are long enough to go completely around a 29" wheel with about 7 extra inches even when routes as close to the rim as I could. I trimmed of the extra and joined the tubing at the coupling. For smaller wheels you will have enough to do a spiral as shown on the instructions I included a pic of.The WheelBrightz Bike Wheel Lights are an excellent product. These are a great way to make your kids more visible at night!The weather proofing on this 2024 version makes it easy to route (wedge) between the spokes to the point that it stays put even before installing the included zip ties.I was surprised that these don't have a flashing mode like many others.I also don't prefer that the battery compartment attaches to the spokes and not to the hub. It is a bit less clean looking. Over all it installs quickly and looks good. A great addition to my 29er unicycle in this case!

Was skeptical when I bought these about them working on a smaller wheel and on an e-bike that obtains 20 plus mph speed. What I did do, and HIGHLY RECOMMEND is take your time in mounting them as tight to the wheel rim as possible and then use tie wraps every few inches to secure them further. (I needed to use extra tie wraps not supplied). I also took the battery controller and used the rubber straps to secure it to the spokes AND took several long tie wraps and secured it better. (This was one of the sticking points people mentioned in reviews about the straps breaking or loosening). By adding tie wraps I don’t have to worry they will break and result in disaster for me and the bike.I was also worried about cutting them to fit the shorter/smaller wheel, but this worked fine. I just made sure to cut after a light. I didn’t want to wrap excess throughout the tire like some suggested. I wanted a clean circle around the tire.Pros: Easy to install, being able to cycle through all colors or to stop on one color makes for endless choice and cool effect and you can change color to suit your mood every time your ride or stop the bike.Cons: Felt necessary to secure more than recommended with extra tie wraps, a bit hard to turn off and on when you have to reach through the spokes to find the push button. While securing it extra, it does make it more difficult when batteries need changing, but safety was first for me.Overall, it provides great light for dusk or night riding and great visibility of your bike on the road or trail, and boy do your look and feel cool! Buy them and have fun! All eyes will turn when you ride!

I love these so much! It took a little bit of time for me to figure out how to put them in but I’m also directionally impaired. Lol now when I go riding around at night I have little kids stopping to wave at me and y’all at me how much they love my bike. These are awesome and everybody should have them!

Good product, quick shipping. Two thumbs up!

Box was opened and damaged so im taking 2 stars off i haven't set them on wheels but ill come back to edit

These lights look so awesome at night riding around! We bought these as a birthday gift for our son for his new bike and he loves them!

easy to use and they are awesome

I ordered Brightz WheelBrightz LED Bike Wheel Lights as a fun gift for my granddaughter to glam up her bike. The lights were affordable and arrived packaged in perfect condition. The lights have not been mounted to the bike wheels yet so I’ll have to update this review and add information about mount-ability and quality once my granddaughter gets to light up her bike with them. As of this time I’m giving the seller 5 stars because the product looked like the advertisement photos and they shipped the product to me very quickly.

Look great on bike

Excellent

My grandson love this for his bike

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We usually take a "whalk" (I wheel, he walks) for a mile or two in Lincoln Park after dinner. Now that it's getting darker earlier, being visible is a concern. So I thought I'd give these a try. We got the two-wheel color changing set.Super easy to install. I chose to weave the light-tube not only through the spokes, but also the connectors between the hand rail and the wheel, so the lights stay close to the rim. As you can see, all worked without any problems. I was not only visible, I also got compliments on my "cool wheels".Things to know: If you want the two light strings to change colors simultaneously, you've got to turn them on at the same moment. Good luck with that. There is a single on-off button for each light-tube. First press turns the lights on, changing colors through the spectrum . Press it again to freeze the color. The third press turns off the lights.

I would have given it 5 stars but it didn’t stay put because the bike’s spokes were a bit wide. I had to secure it with lots of zip ties. Can’t remember but the bike is either 24 or 26. Aside from that, it looks great in the dark. We just bought it for safety reasons for my daughter. She will be seen from a good distance!!!

Easy to install, but I struggled a bit trying to attach and remove the rubber piece to the battery pack. I ended up using some needle nose plyers, but the lights looked and worked great! I received several compliments on them during our holiday lights bike night.

So easy my daughters put them on their bike themselves 12 & 13. We wanted them to have lights on their bikes while night riding. It’s fits perfectly. They love seeing where they are going.

I got these for my boyfriend. So I originally ordered these from Amazon marketplace and by comparing the box I got to the genuine box photos, it was pretty obvious that I received knockoffs. Amazon was really good about refunding my purchase after I complained. Unfortunately, it looks like these keep getting sold by a series of slightly sketchy importers, using shifting names, and I don't fully trust that anyone selling Wheel Brightz under this listing is selling the genuine article. So I bought a new set of Wheel Brightz from the manufacturer's website.I am super bad at mechanical stuff, but installation was OK. Maybe 15-20 minutes per wheel.I got the pink one, my boyfriend got the multi-color. They both look great. The multi-color version looks kind of ugly when you're stationary compared to the other, more uniform colors, but it's totally sick when you're actually on the bike in motion -- it's like having a little rainbow whipping around your rim. For thirty bucks you bring a lot of joy to the world -- we probably average one direct compliment for every 1-2 miles or so of biking, depending on pedestrian density (and I overhear a lot of people talking about the lights but not directly to us). Typical encounters: A little kid in Bernal Heights shouted "you have a cool bike!" from his front porch. A (probably slightly intoxicated) pedestrian in the Mission told my boyfriend he had the coolest bike in San Francisco and gave him a fist-bump. Another stranger shouted, "I like your Playa bike!" (this is not my Playa bike, although these lights would be perfect for Burning Man.) The lights are very bright and visible, although you still need to have standard front and rear lights, as the Wheel Brightz can't be seen from directly behind or in front of the bike.Update: A year later, I still haven't had to change the batteries! I have had to order one replacement power supply for my boyfriend's bike, though -- we hang our bikes vertically by the front wheel on wall-mounted hanging racks and over time, the power cord got caught between the wheel and the rack enough times that it frayed and wore through. (You can avoid this if you are reasonably careful when you hang up your bike and avoid crushing the power connector cable -- it just hadn't occurred to us that this would be a problem until the cable broke, so we didn't bother trying to avoid it.) More recently, a segment (about a quarter) of the lights on one of his wheels went out, although you can't tell when the bike is in motion. Again, this is probably caused by hanging the bike by the front wheel.Update II: I've gotten several more sets of these, and they're still great, but I notice that in some of the sets I've bought more recently, in the initial packaging, the battery pack is screwed on so tightly I've had to use an electric screwdriver to open it -- it would be nice if they could fix that and not over-tighten the screws!Update III: I recently brought a pair of these to Burning Man. I noticed on the Playa that of all the different lighting schemes people used for their bikes, Wheel Brightz were the brightest and most visible -- far better than EL wire or front and rear lights. If you are planning to go to Burning Man, I would recommend Wheel Brightz as an absolute must-have for your bike.

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Great I love them but the seals on the boxes are not great. We got caught in a rain storm and bikes never went under water and water had entered the boxes. As you can see the front green one doesn’t work. Rear flickers but the center one works fine. As for the white ones. The center no longer works. Water entered the box. Back lights are fading away like the batteries are dying but I just changed them with greasy one and that how they are now. I want to get them replaced and I’ll have to seal the boxes with a silicone of sorts.

Very difficult to get the battery box fastened to the spokes. I had to use my long zip ties & duct tape. The rubber strap they provided just didn’t fit.

Love these lights. Pretty simple and easy to install. They are more time consuming to install on 12in bikes because the tires are so small. But we use them on all our bikes for riding at night when we are camping. The kids love them. They help everyone see the kids at dark riding their bikes. For roughly 25 dollars for the pair, they are definitely worth the price compared to other brands. The lights last a long time on 1 set of batteries and do not require batteries often.

Was easy to set up.