I asked, and you delivered—over 300 entries came in this past week!  Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for all the great suggestions you sent.  It was tough, but I’ve narrowed them down to the following 10 finalists:

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with email about my bike from people all over the world who are interested in its many features.  As I struggled to respond, I realized that there’s still one thing that my bike is missing: a name.

I’ve never been any good at this sort of thing—that’s why I’m holding a contest to give away a retro-reflective wheel set to the reader who can come up with the best name for my new bike.  Crowdsourcing!

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Pass the coffee milk and alert the ProJo—James in Providence, RI has won the #DearDrivers twitter contest!  I’ll be sending him a Light & Motion Vis 360 in this afternoon’s mail.  Here’s his winning tweet:

#DearDrivers see you at the next stoplight!

— Car Free in PVD (@carfreepvd) August 31, 2012

It’s simple and to the point, and there’s a friendly cheerfulness to it that I quite enjoy.

I also like the hint of pride in his certainty.  Cars may be able to get off the line a little quicker, but at the end of the day, a bike in traffic can usually get there just as fast as a car (and sometimes even faster).

I realize that it could be read differently (“see you at the next light, chumps!”), but maybe that ambiguity is what appeals to me.

The implication that James always puts his foot down didn’t hurt either. 

My sincere thanks to everyone who participated.  There were a lot of great tweets and it was a tough decision. 

You can read all of the entries here, including a take on “Call Me Maybe” by @etuni that I found delightful.

Hopefully Light & Motion will send some more cool stuff for me to give away and we can do it again.

Actually, this goes for pretty much any company: send me free stuff and I’ll give it away.  This was fun.

Yours,

Josh

PS: James is the author of Car-Free in PVD, a blog about transportation biking in America’s most adorable li’l state—definitely worth a read, even if you don’t live in Rhodie.  In case you’re interested, he’ll be writing a review of the lights that I’m sending, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: We have a winner.

The fine folks at Light & Motion recently sent me some of their lights to review. As an added bonus, they threw in this one for me to give away to one of my loyal readers.  I’ve decided to hold a twitter contest to figure out who gets it.

To enter, you need only post a tweet that includes the following hashtag: #DearDrivers.

The idea is that you’re writing a letter to drivers, along the lines of #DearDrivers, please don’t forget about me when you’re making that right turn. Love, bikers.  

Simple, right?

Politeness and humor are encouraged, and the best tweet gets the lights.

Good luck!

Yours,

Josh

PS: No purchase necessary, void where prohibited.