Posted by Beav on August 5, 2010, 10:20 am
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> Quite frankly, I don't know of any studies that show whether high-
> visibility gear for motorcyclists works or doesn't. High visibility
> colors have been proven to increase visibility and reduce accidents
> for emergency response vehicles, though. Highways workers wear hi-viz
> yellow for a reason.
And that's one of the problems. Too many people in too many jobs are wearing
"hi-viz" shite and it's becoming less noticable by the day.
> I think the odds of hi-viz gear hurting a motorcyclist's safety
> profile are vanishingly small, and I've been riding long enough to
> know that when I wear the gear, people *do* notice me earlier and more
> often than when I don't.
> That's not to say that one should *depend* on the gear, but it's a
> viable tool in the safety-concious rider's arsenal.
> And, of course you can have cool hi-viz gear. My yellow helmet is
> definitely the coolest helmet in the Washington metro area. Everyone
> else is wearing some lame-o beanie or some even lame-o-er race replica
> thingie.
I'm about to paint my wife's and my own helmets "Pearl Blazing Orange", but
only because I like the colour.
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Beav
Posted by T.J. Higgins on August 5, 2010, 10:27 am
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>> Quite frankly, I don't know of any studies that show whether high-
>> visibility gear for motorcyclists works or doesn't. High visibility
>> colors have been proven to increase visibility and reduce accidents
>> for emergency response vehicles, though. Highways workers wear hi-viz
>> yellow for a reason.
>And that's one of the problems. Too many people in too many jobs are wearing
>"hi-viz" shite and it's becoming less noticable by the day.
Which is also the reason why I dislike the DRL feature (daytime
running lights) of cars.
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TJH
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Posted by Beav on August 10, 2010, 3:23 pm
>>
>>
>>news:4a20a623-e747-40e0-a322-
>>> Quite frankly, I don't know of any studies that show whether high-
>>> visibility gear for motorcyclists works or doesn't. High visibility
>>> colors have been proven to increase visibility and reduce accidents
>>> for emergency response vehicles, though. Highways workers wear hi-viz
>>> yellow for a reason.
>>
>>And that's one of the problems. Too many people in too many jobs are
>>wearing
>>"hi-viz" shite and it's becoming less noticable by the day.
> Which is also the reason why I dislike the DRL feature (daytime
> running lights) of cars.
I'm not a particular lover of it myself, but I ride and drive in Sweden from
time to time and it's mandatory over there and it's amazing how far away a
vehicle can be and you can still see it.
Mind you, in Sweden I think the most "popular" accident is a head-on
collision.
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> visibility gear for motorcyclists works or doesn't. High visibility
> colors have been proven to increase visibility and reduce accidents
> for emergency response vehicles, though. Highways workers wear hi-viz
> yellow for a reason.