Night gates!

[bikeman]

So I was at a comp yesterday and was watching a scale truck with lights go through a gate, and this idea hit me so hard it darn near knocked me on my arse! I thought to myself what about gates that light up for night courses. Wether it be a tennis ball with an led stickin through the top with somthin like a camera or a flat cell battery. Or a semi transperant plastic dome with an internal l.e.d., you can even do different colors.

I will be building a set sometime soon. Let me know what you guys think. If anybody has built or seen this post up some pictures or links.

[BADASSPONY]

We did it with tennis ball halves, a led and a 9 volt. We had green in the start 2, red in the finish gates, and blue or orange all the course gates. They worked great and lasted a long time with the setup we used.

[bikeman]

Any pictures?

[Harvo]

Those little tea candles work As long as it isn't windy

[mikegigabyte]

what about those cheap puck lights, the led type. Or the tap light brand. Ive seen small ones, size of tennis balls.

[BOWTIE]

we have used bracelet glow sticks before for night comps.

[BADASSPONY]

Originally Posted by mikegigabyte

what about those cheap puck lights, the led type. Or the tap light brand. Ive seen small ones, size of tennis balls.

Those would be cool if you hot glued wiffle ball halfs on them. I might have thy that.

[Neil76]

The glow sticks are cheap and looks cool but those little lites look like they would be sick too

[mxracer33x]

You can get teh LED "tealight" candles. Like used in pumpkins or foo-foo house stuff.

You can get flamed or flameless ones, averaging $20 a dozen.

http://www.ledtealights.net/White-Un...cker_p_14.html

[CreepyCrawl]

Originally Posted by BOWTIE

we have used bracelet glow sticks before for night comps.

That's bad ass right there

[ol' gravy leg]

you can get 100 tealight candles from ikea for like $4.

[bikeman]

Originally Posted by ol' gravy leg

you can get 100 tealight candles from ikea for like $4.

Ya, open flame and tall dry brush dont seem to go together! Specially the way i knock gates down. Plus the spilled wax will just ruin traction. the idea is there especially on the cheap.

[bikeman]

Some great ideas!

[yellowpasta2000]

WOW that night comp crawling is really sickk!!! i never thought about running at night but that would b cool with bunch of other rigs runnig with lights!!!

[bikeman]

Ya, are night comps are like crawlin by brail! I have lights but its still hard to see the gates.

[rockhugger]

Parker came up with a great idea for one of the first Reno night comps, which was break glow stick and poor all the glowing stuff on the tennis balls, lasted a few hours - Done

[samyota86]

awsome...night wheelin

[DiabloPres]

take it a step further, go to your indoor course, paint the tennis balls white or neon colors.

Turn all of the lights off, and break out the black lights man...peace and love brothas

[dirtyal]

Originally Posted by DiabloPres

take it a step further, go to your indoor course, paint the tennis balls white or neon colors.

Turn all of the lights off, and break out the black lights man...peace and love brothas

As strange as it seems, I actually like that idea. It would be kind of trippy.

[BADASSPONY]

Originally Posted by DiabloPres

take it a step further, go to your indoor course, paint the tennis balls white or neon colors.

Turn all of the lights off, and break out the black lights man...peace and love brothas

Or you could use wiffle ball halfs, add white/neon on the bodies and that would make for a fun ass crawl. You could even splatter some white paint here and there on the rocks to really add the the blacklight effects!!