Reflective Clothing Psychology - Your Thoughts...

[Ming the Merciless]

Provides same reflective area as tyre reflective band but wears slower if at all. like this one

Rim tape goes inside the rim over spoke holes. If you can see rim tape means the tyre is no longer mounted.

 

[kayakerles]

Just wondering what the requirements were elsewhere.

I feel safer myself with lights fitted and working, as opposed to relying on reflectors/reflective materials on their own.

Classic, when it comes to Standards in the U.S., they can go on forever.

Here's a simple pic. Don't follow the following links unless you've had a good bit of coffee and are a SPEED-READER!

I bet not ONE bike rider EVER read any of this. Never EVER been stopped for any bike rule breaking, either. Take a peek:
https://www.cpsc.gov/content/bicycle-requirements-business-guidance

and…

U.S.requirements for bicycles?
The U.S. requirements are in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-C/part-1512?toc=1

As for me, lights front & back, recharged at least every other day, Reflective gilet over whatever else I am wearing.

 

[Saluki]

I have good lights front and back and, now, a little helmet light as country roads are dark. I have my Boardman reflective (space turnip) jacket, which I can wear as a gilet or jacket. It’s well vented so not too boil-in-the-bag. I take spare lights too. Small flasher on the front, couple of small flashers on the rear as well as my usual light. The heels of my winter boots are reflective as are bits on my gloves.

I need a new lid and was thinking of one of the PX reflect ones.

 

[gbb]

One thing i distinctly and clearky remember....
Driving out if town one night some years ago, unlit road....my headlights caught the reflectives of a cyclist waaaay wayyy out in the distance, maybe 1/2 mile away...in the absolute pitch black shone someones refective strips, giving me more than enough advanced warning someone was out there on a bike (could have been a pedestrian, doesn't matter)

 

[classic33]

Classic, when it comes to Standards in the U.S., they can go on forever.

Here's a simple pic. Don't follow the following links unless you've had a good bit of coffee and are a SPEED-READER!
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I bet not ONE bike rider EVER read any of this. Never EVER been stopped for any bike rule breaking, either. Take a peek:
https://www.cpsc.gov/content/bicycle-requirements-business-guidance

and…

U.S.requirements for bicycles?
The U.S. requirements are in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-C/part-1512?toc=1

As for me, lights front & back, recharged at least every other day, Reflective gilet over whatever else I am wearing.

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Seems much the same as over here, reflector wise.