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Here are two pics of my motorcycle. In a previous thread ages ago I mentioned getting Rimstrips.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a before pic, but I do have this nice feature on my Z20FD that it takes two pictures in a row - one with flash one without. So, we'll be able to see the regular daylight look and the 100% reflection of light look.




You can also see my newly added TireFly. I haven't ridden on the road with them yet - so I don't know if they are going to cause me any police problems or not. They are rather unfortunately, blue in color. I wasn't thinking when I bought them. They are bright - and I can see them in the light in my garage - don't know if they are visible in bright daylight. At night, I'm sure there will be no problem seeing them.

RhadamYgg

GL and lemme know what happens with those LEDS

Here the local LEOs will not say anything about them(the LEDs), but the State Patrol will.

And where did you find reflective tape that can be bent around rim? All I see is rigid and not flexable like pinstripe tape.

Brackstone wrote:GL and lemme know what happens with those LEDS

Definitely - if I get a ticket I'm a big baby and I'll whine on a thread here. Of course I'm not sure when the next time will be that I ride at night, so who knows?

To me I look at it as a safety issue - but I do think I chose a poor color. Yellow probably would have been best.

RhadamYgg

slimcolo wrote:Here the local LEOs will not say anything about them(the LEDs), but the State Patrol will.

And where did you find reflective tape that can be bent around rim? All I see is rigid and not flexable like pinstripe tape.

I don't remember if it was difficult to find when I was looking around - I think I stumbled in to it looking for retro-reflective graphics for the bike. I ended up not getting any graphics (yet) - but I got the rimstripes.

RimStripes

If you get a RimStripe - you have to pick reflective if you want it to do anything special other than look better than the stock rim.

RhadamYgg

heh, I didn't even really address the question. The stripes start out as straight strips and then as you apply small segments of them they stretch and conform to the way you apply them.

It was pretty easy, but I'm not precise about things - so you can tell from my image that my stripes aren't exactly perfect.

I had enough extra that I was able to do the front wheel of my son's bike.

RhadamYgg

Update:

The Tireflys sucked. They lasted about a week with the batteries and I had a great deal of difficulty getting them off. Seems the plastic they are made of expanded at a different rate than the metal of the valve.

Not to give up, I saw a pair of lights similar to them in an auto store. So I put them on.... And experienced the same problems.

The funny thing is that something like this shouldn't require batteries. The motion of being spun around should be able to generate enough energy to make these tiny LEDs to light up.

But the cheap plastic is an issue as well. So I don't recommend any lights that attach to tire valves.

So, there were no problems with cops with these lights as they didn't really last long enough for me to be checked out by a police officer.

The designers of these products just need a little bit more brain power to make these a good product.

Oh, BTW, Police are not the only ones with blue strobe lights in NYC. Many of the public transportation buses have flashing blue LEDs on the top on the front and back of them.

RhadamYgg

RhadamYgg wrote:Update:

The Tireflys sucked. They lasted about a week with the batteries and I had a great deal of difficulty getting them off. Seems the plastic they are made of expanded at a different rate than the metal of the valve.

Not to give up, I saw a pair of lights similar to them in an auto store. So I put them on.... And experienced the same problems.

The funny thing is that something like this shouldn't require batteries. The motion of being spun around should be able to generate enough energy to make these tiny LEDs to light up.

But the cheap plastic is an issue as well. So I don't recommend any lights that attach to tire valves.

So, there were no problems with cops with these lights as they didn't really last long enough for me to be checked out by a police officer.

The designers of these products just need a little bit more brain power to make these a good product.

Oh, BTW, Police are not the only ones with blue strobe lights in NYC. Many of the public transportation buses have flashing blue LEDs on the top on the front and back of them.

RhadamYgg

Blue is for city vehicles and first responders, people are allowed to have them but not on the hood or roof just the undersides of vehicles and cannot be strobing.

JC Viper wrote:

RhadamYgg wrote:Update:

The Tireflys sucked. They lasted about a week with the batteries and I had a great deal of difficulty getting them off. Seems the plastic they are made of expanded at a different rate than the metal of the valve.

Not to give up, I saw a pair of lights similar to them in an auto store. So I put them on.... And experienced the same problems.

The funny thing is that something like this shouldn't require batteries. The motion of being spun around should be able to generate enough energy to make these tiny LEDs to light up.

But the cheap plastic is an issue as well. So I don't recommend any lights that attach to tire valves.

So, there were no problems with cops with these lights as they didn't really last long enough for me to be checked out by a police officer.

The designers of these products just need a little bit more brain power to make these a good product.

Oh, BTW, Police are not the only ones with blue strobe lights in NYC. Many of the public transportation buses have flashing blue LEDs on the top on the front and back of them.

RhadamYgg

Blue is for city vehicles and first responders, people are allowed to have them but not on the hood or roof just the undersides of vehicles and cannot be strobing.

Heh, interesting. I had thought (and had reinforced) that blue was not allowed on anything other than police cars. But what you say makes sense.

There is a neat Hayabusa for sale not far with a boatload of blue LEDs on it. Not that I can afford the insurance on it.

RhadamYgg