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redwing
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Unread postPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:29 pm 
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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????

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BobK
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Unread postPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:46 pm 
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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).

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When we got home I put some on the back of my top case:

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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.

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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?

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sapaul
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Check our shop, we are big believers in reflective s


http://shop.thinkbike.co.za/shop?page=s ... egory_id=2

http://shop.thinkbike.co.za/shop?page=s ... egory_id=1

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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

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Ninja Geoff
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sapaul wrote:
Check our shop, we are big believers in reflective s


http://shop.thinkbike.co.za/shop?page=s ... egory_id=2

http://shop.thinkbike.co.za/shop?page=s ... egory_id=1


I miss my old helmet.

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Ninja Geoff
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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.

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I admit it looks tremendously dorky, but I'm still a great believer in reflective tape and HiViz.

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