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added rider's safety
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:29 am
by redwing
I added a reflective cloth strip to my back pack and jacket. The idea is a driver coming up from behind will see the strips waving like a flag or a banner. A moving strip of light...light snake.
What ya think????
Robert
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:46 am
by BobK
Reflective tape is very effective. My friend put some on the back of his top case, and it is really visible at dusk. We went on a trip through Austria and Germany in August, and I noticed the tape was much more visible than his hi-viz jacket when I was riding behind him through tunnels in the Alps (there were some very long tunnels; the longest was 16 km (10 miles).
When we got home I put some on the back of my top case:
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:58 pm
by jstark47
The more reflective stuff, the better.
In NJ we're required to have 4 square inches of reflective tape on each side of our helmets. I also have black reflective tape plastered all over my bike's top case. It's very inconspicuous in daytime, but lights right up when a headlight hits it at night.
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:40 pm
by Johnj
jstark47 wrote:In NJ we're required to have 4 square inches of reflective tape on each side of our helmets.
Couldn't that hide a defect in the helmet?
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:57 pm
by sapaul
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:19 am
by MmeMagpie
I've got Lightweights reflective spots all over my backpack. They're really flexible, eye-poppingly bright, and adhere incredibly well to fabric. They've even been through the wash a few times. Comes in lots of colors and tape, too.
http://www.lightweights.org/store/home.php
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:22 am
by Ninja Geoff
I miss my old helmet.
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:01 pm
by sapaul
Geoff, my man !!!!!!!
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:39 am
by Ninja Geoff
That helmet was retired after I dropped it, failed to catch it, and it bounced of the only "procreating" rock within 10 feet.
I also lost most of the pamphlets you sent me, but a few found their way under wiper blades.
Re: added rider's safety
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:48 pm
by Grey Thumper
I admit it looks tremendously dorky, but I'm still a great believer in reflective tape and HiViz.
