High-Visibility Vest for Motorcycling?
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From: S'mee on 5 Aug 2010 00:01 On Aug 4, 9:56 am, .p.jm.(a)see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote: > It seems the choice is between 'looking cool, on a slab in the > morgue' or 'looking like a dork to a bunch of strangers in traffic > that you never met and never will, while riding your motorcycle'. > Shows what you know...
From: S'mee on 5 Aug 2010 00:01 On Aug 4, 3:09 pm, "Vito" <v...(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > J. Clarke wrote: > tomor...(a)erols.com wrote: > >>> Quite frankly, I don't know of any studies that show whether high- > >>> visibility gear for motorcyclists works or doesn't. ....... > >> There was one in New Zealand a while back that suggests something > >> like a 33% reduction in accidents for high-conspicuity clothing. > > The only one I saw showed a marked reduction in accidents for a few months, > until cagers figured out the dude in the clothes was just another kid on a > Honda instead of a cop. Still, it can't hurt ..... I'll stick with tickling their lizard brain...BLACK. Cops wear it for a reason...it makes people back off.
From: Vito on 5 Aug 2010 07:33 Stephen! wrote: >> dusty <bythebayguy(a)hotmail.com> wrote in >> news:nhbh56dvrtikb4q6b1l9ids0e1pps5bukb(a)4ax.com: >> >>> Anybody hitting you would have to get their license yanked for for >>> being blind. >> >> Heh... True as that might be, people get run over by trains all the >> time. >> After forcing the motor cop off the road by making a right turn from the left lane the lady pleaded "didn't seeum". Cop replied that if she couldn't see his full dress Harley with three lights then he was taking her license. She said that she had indeed seen his Harley but had not seen that he was a policeman and assumed he was just some kid ..... That's why "conspicuity" works ... for a little while.
From: tomorrow on 5 Aug 2010 09:49 On Aug 5, 7:33 am, "Vito" <v...(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Stephen! wrote: > >> dusty <bythebay...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in > >>news:nhbh56dvrtikb4q6b1l9ids0e1pps5bukb(a)4ax.com: > > >>> Anybody hitting you would have to get their license yanked for for > >>> being blind. > > >> Heh... True as that might be, people get run over by trains all the > >> time. > > After forcing the motor cop off the road by making a right turn from the > left lane the lady pleaded "didn't seeum". Cop replied that if she couldn't > see his full dress Harley with three lights then he was taking her license. > She said that she had indeed seen his Harley but had not seen that he was a > policeman and assumed he was just some kid ..... > > That's why "conspicuity" works ... for a little while. Conspicuity is no panacea. Being seen (or being seen earlier) doesn't offer the rider any guarantee that the other road user will react to the presence of the motorcyclist at all, let alone in an appropriate manner. EXPECTING to be seen is dangerous. Replacing a sound street riding mental strategy with conspicuous clothing or a conspicuous motorcycle, is just plain stupid. However, INCREASING conspicuity as a PART of an evolving, flexible, aggressively proactive defensive street riding mental strategy simply makes sense and can certainly help a rider reduce risk.
From: Beav on 5 Aug 2010 10:23
<.p.jm.(a)see_my_sig_for_address.com> wrote in message news:i93j56lnhrqo4i82is9r2ckv2vtv0ttg92(a)4ax.com... > > It seems the choice is between 'looking cool, on a slab in the > morgue' or 'looking like a dork to a bunch of strangers in traffic > that you never met and never will, while riding your motorcycle'. There's a third choice too. Looking like a fucked non bike riding loser like you, but I doubt anyone on here will go with that option. -- Beav |