Hi Viz

[ComedyPilot]

To see an object, light hits it and reflects back into your eyes.

Now, the faster you travel towards that object, the less time you are giving yourself to see it, react to it, slow down and not hit it......

What we have is an already very dangerous, careless, incompetent, reckelss, selfish, risk taking, responsibility-avoiding motoring public that thinks the answer is cyclists must wear hi viz.....when the answer (as @Adrian points out above) is for them to slow down and give themsleves time to look, see and drive SAFELY.

I have YET to have ANY driver answer me why their journey is worth more than the life of another road user.....

 

[Globalti]

Traditional superstition:

Modern superstition:

 

[summerdays]

I even had a discussion/disagreement with my daughter this week about wearing hi-viz. it's not even that I don't wear it - I do at times but I want to choose those times not be dictated to. But I think your arguments were better!

 

[ufkacbln]

SLightly OT, but makes a point

In the US there is a rash of "Take it and Make it" campaigns
Pedestrian crosings now have pedestrian flags:

(Note: the compulsory use of dodgy stats comparing 10 years without flags and a few months with)

WHich you now use when crossing the road

 

[ufkacbln]

Some people however are simply not taking this seriously enough!

 

[steveindenmark]

I even had a discussion/disagreement with my daughter this week about wearing hi-viz. it's not even that I don't wear it - I do at times but I want to choose those times not be dictated to. But I think your arguments were better!

I think you have hit the nail right on the head.

It's the same for helmets and earphones. I have helmets and vis vests and wear them sometimes. I am pretty sure a helmet would do me more good than bad in the case of an accident and I am certain that I am more visible in a vis vest.

But like a lot of cyclists I get quite pixxed off when people try to tell me that you MUST wear a helmet or you look a total prat in a vis vest. These comments have never been put to me in person but appear on forums like this all the time.

We just don't like being dictated to. Maybe one day the penny will drop that we are allowed to have personal choices.

Steve

 

[MarkF]

The kids from the nursery opposite my house all wear hi-viz vests when they go for a walk, they have to hold (link) hands too. They walk along a quiet pavement and into the woods, they don't even cross a road.

My daughter was told off at school for not wearing a hi-viz vest on her morning commute. Then she was banned from the "cycling day" activities for refusing to wearing a helmet, bizarre, as she is the only girl pupil that cycled to school, before or after "cycling day".

Each to their own, I don't wear hi-viz, primarily (I'll admit it) because it looks terrible. But, they are now so ubiquitious, I don't believe that they carry any significant safety advantage.

 

[gavgav]

No one HAS to wear helmets or hi viz. It's personal choice and so I wear a helmet as I believe it at least gives me a better chance of surviving a head impact and wear hi-viz as I believe it makes me easier to see

 

[jdtate101]

I only own 1 bit of Hi-Viz, which was sent to me my my mate (who owns Capo). I don't wear it in winter as it's a bitch to keep clean, but in summer it's great, especially when matched to a pair of FLO Bont Vaypors:

 

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[MarkF]

JDtate101, I said hi-viz looks terrible but of course, I meant the ubiquitious vests, they do. But that Capo jersey is very nice indeed.