Be careful riding in the dark!

[The Mighty Boosh]

You would do well to consider how we see things. The circumstances under which a bright object can stand out and the ones where it doesn't, the finite nature of our processing ability, that sort of thing.

I am to drunk right now to understand what has just been said.

 

[Cuchilo]

This picture was taken on the day I was stopped by a policeman on Portland Place and told I should be wearing a hi-viz. Early afternoon, blazing sunshine. Words failed me, perhaps fortunately

http://bunnyskate.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/haring-about.html

He probably just wanted to make you look silly .

 

[The Mighty Boosh]

So if the cyclist was wearing hi-viz, the skip would have seen him?

If the cyclist was looking ahead

Your eyes work on contrast - which is why a dark object stands out perfectly well against a light background. Road surfaces appear pale grey in the sun, so someone wearing black will be perfectly visible. On the other hand, hi-viz appears the same dirty orange as the road under the streetlights. If you think that it makes you more visible after dark, you're deluding yourself. I usually spot hi-viz cyclists at night by the shadows they cast under the streetlights, because what they're wearing blends wonderfully well into the background.

You do, I trust, manage to spot and avoid all those black cars, don't you?

what you say makes sense, but in my experience I notice cyclist faster if they are wearing colour full clothes, for me black seem's to blend in with hedge row's, maybe in a City or large town it works best but were I live every time I see a cyclist or jogger in black it is a near miss, and those in colour I spot miles off.

as for Black Car's or even Ninja Skip's, I don't ride so fast that I cant see them, however I did run into a pebble dash wall once,and have the scar to prove it but that is irrelevant to this post.

 

[Steven martin]

Guys I am new to this cycling stuff and now I am scared to go out at night due to the ninja skips!

Am I missing something?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Guys I am new to this cycling stuff and now I am scared to go out at night due to the ninja skips!

Am I missing something?

You should be. They patrol the streets dressed in yellow and jump out at cyclists who aren't wearing hi viz

 

[Cuchilo]

They also have big yellow flashy lights on them unless kids have nicked them for bedroom ornaments .