Reflections on reflecting

[pdonk]

When I started doing "dawn patrol" rides my wife insisted I add reflective clothing and tape where I could.

I wear Lululemon reflective socks, have added small pieces if tape to my helmet and shies, try to wear light coloured jerseys and fortunately one of the vests I have from a charity ride is bright yellow and baby blue with a reflective strip on the back.

So I guess I am in the reflective camp. However, I don't ride with lights on during the day.

[eri]

I agree the dark clothes are less than ideal but for a dark rainy winter day I think the bikes really need lights.

There was a lightless cycle commuter ahead of me in traffic yesterday in the pouring rain without a light and I was so concerned for him that if I’d had a spare light I would have given it to him. The bontrager flare type lights are pretty great.

I keep a roll of solas tape handy on my tool bench, put strips on the rims every 4 spokes on every bike in our house.

[Fat Cat]

Originally Posted by dustyrider

Here in Colorado road construction crew deaths increased by something like 60% last year. I wear hi-viz clothes for working around traffic and try to wear bright colors when riding but it sure doesn’t feel like hi-viz clothes even matters in the face of such entitlement.

Get Off Of My Road ! ! !

[ColonelJLloyd]

Originally Posted by dustyrider

Here in Colorado road construction crew deaths increased by something like 60% last year. I wear hi-viz clothes for working around traffic and try to wear bright colors when riding but it sure doesn’t feel like hi-viz clothes even matters in the face of such entitlement.

That seems like a statistic that comes from very small numbers in which and handful of instances constitutes a wild swing in percentage.

I'm the guy who yells at cyclists to get a blinky, hollers props at people that have a flashing collar on their dog, and carries blinkies with me to give to riders and runners without them.

[Fat Cat]

Originally Posted by ColonelJLloyd

That seems like a statistic that comes from very small numbers in which and handful of instances constitutes a wild swing in percentage.

Dead is dead if it's one or a thousand. Drivers don't GAF. It's a free country and they can do anything that they want because that's their right.

[ColonelJLloyd]

I don't know what your point is, but hitting someone dressed as a ninja in the dark is not how I want to start or end my day so I do what I do. It's a free country.

[zap]

I ride during the day.

I try to wear bright socks and shoes. I do use a rear Blinky light when riding solo, off when in a group.

Bibs are black. Jersey is whatever.

[Elmer]

My schedule dictates me riding in the early morning hours (dark hours) so I have lights on my bike and wear highly reflective ankle bands that my good friend Peter P. made for me years ago. It's the movement that catches the eye more than anything else IMHO. Unless the driver has his/her eyes focused on their phone that is.

[Fat Cat]

Originally Posted by ColonelJLloyd

I don't know what your point is, but hitting someone dressed as a ninja in the dark is not how I want to start or end my day so I do what I do. It's a free country.

Sorry. I edited the comment. You're perfectly right about the ninjas.