Cycling can be better with music, but earphones make it harder to hear the traffic around you on the road. The Cyclone is a shock-proof speaker designed to fit inside a water bottle cage.
A rechargeable battery provides up to six hours of continuous music playback and its Bluetooth connectivity works at a distance of up to 10 metres from your smartphone or other device.
The splash-proof Cyclone has an output of 2x5W and weighs 433g.
Win a Cyclone speaker
To be in with a chance of winning your own cyclone speaker, simply leave a comment below and let us know what you’d play on yours.
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Elspeth Davies
It’s got to be Queen’s Bicycle Race!
“I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like”
Craig
I would play Kraftwerk’s Tour de France: Still sounds good after all these years and so appropriate for a cycling nut like me.
Stephen
Because it’s the wonderful feeling I get when I cycle:-
“I Want to Break Free” by Queen.
gill
I would love it to be “Speed King” by Deep Purple, but “Slow Bicycle” by Múm would be more appropriate! 🙂
Alastair Seagroatt
I’d try to compose & record a bicycle song to help me on the hills 🚵🏼♂️
Wolf Simpson
Definitely some good heavy metal music, Metallica Black Album be the first.
Carol W
Maybe some sound effects would be fun 🙂
Robert Nunney
Bike by Pink Floyd
Mikhail Tuzikov
Wow! It would be perfect for our social rides!
Frank
Music accompanies me on every ride – sometimes just in my imagination or from whatever sound system I have with me be it mobile phone or voice recorder – I don’t use earphones, just the device’s
own speaker, so having a Bluetooth speaker to playback with will turn my musical journeys into a roving soundscape as well as landscape.
Richard Scrase
Radio 4
Gavin
… this is a must win present!
Douglas Milsom
I am afraid that I do not like the idea. I would only want to win one to prevent its use! (Sorry to be such a party pooper.) I love music, classic and jazz mainly, but not much of the popular stuff. I would generally prefer not to hear other peoples’ choice of noise (such as rap emitting from the open windows of a BMW at about 150 decibels). I listen to good music quietly inside my car (windows closed!), but would never listen while cycling or running.
Peter Clark
My gym playlist because I don’t really like any songs with ‘bike’ in the title
Rory Harkins
Podcasts
Chris Bromwich
Sounds Fantastic, It would have to Pink Floyd or Dire Straits, or maybe Dido, would depend on the journey and the mood.
Stuart Young
Love this to pedal along to some Kings of Leon…helps the miles fly by
Jamie J
“Bike Rider” by Mungo’s Hi Fi (featuring Pupajim) or maybe Napalm Death’s “Unchallenged Hate”…
Phil
Daisy daisy?
PeteG
Excellent solution – have music will travel
Matt blackmore
Nice idea!
Phil
As I cycle in and out of central London each day I would play “Cross Town Traffic” by Hendrix and possibly “My White Bicycle” by Nazereth.
Tom O’Toole
Highway to hell !
Steve
Heard recently that 1 million people in the UK commute by bicycle, so “9 Million Bicycles” by Katie Melua sounds like a decent target!!
Mark B
Clash or Pistols probably!
Steph
I would play a message to all the impatient, rude drivers who scream past me too close:
Ella Fitzgerald’s – Please Be Kind
Darren C
I’d use it as an extra device to warn pedestrians of my presence while on the cycle paths, often I encounter people who think it is okay to walk three abreast right across the cycle path and footpath and completely ignore my bell.
I would have the Gendarme’s siren you so often hear on the Tour de France, currently it’s my ringtone and is very loud!
Bryn
This Wheel’s on Fire written by Bob Dylan; Had a fab tail wind on my ride in to work this morning, so feeling pretty chuffed!!
Thanks for the opportunity ETA.
Bryn
Hollie Johnson
I know it’s January, but I’d want this speaker to play all those Christmas tunes on the annual Christmas bike ride – IT’S CHRRRRIIIIIIISSSSSTTMMAAAAAAAAAAASSSS!!
Colin
“Like a bat out of hell……” (Meat Loaf)
When it’s safe to do so of course………!
Susan
Just love all the above ideas – would have fun using them all – wooohooo!
Rod Mark Hewson
Eagles, Stones, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchel, Stevie Wonder, guess how old I am.
Pete
Great sound system for the bike.
Has the advantage of you being able to hear other road users and for pedestrians to hear you coming.
Pete
Great sound system for the bike.
Has the advantage of you being able to hear other road users and for pedestrians to hear you coming. What better than Queen playing
‘I like to ride my bicycle’
Chris
In the summer-time when the weather is fine.