Do you wear Hi-Viz stuff?

cjcp

Have got a (dirty) hi-viz Hump cover for the backpack and reflective tape on my frame (stays and headtube) and my helmet (front and back).

Agent57

daviesee wrote:

Whilst cycling in a white concrete area in bright sunshine, black may be the best HiViz. Past a yellow rapeseed field - blue. Past a green field - red. Past a coal slag heap- white.

What to wear? What to wear?

The combined jersey from leTour.

gtvlusso

The old high viz top has done a good 8 years of service and has been retired. Now in all black attire in winter, but with high viz strips.

Summer attire has no high viz.

meanredspider

Agent57 wrote:

The combined jersey from leTour.

Cool - that works well - where can I get one?

jds_1981

wizzlebanger wrote:

3-400 yards up the road was a cyclist wearing hi-vis and a cyclist wearing dark clothing riding side by side. I actually commented to my wife that even during the day the cyclist wearing hi-vis was much easier to see. At that distance the other cyclist was more or less just a dark blob / shadow.

by the way 300 yards travelling at 60mph is not very long.

Perception can be a very odd thing though. You noticed them both & you've not proven that had there been only the dark clothed one you wouldn't have noticed him as quickly as the other...

As they say about the plural of anecdote...

Agent57

meanredspider wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

The combined jersey from leTour.

Cool - that works well - where can I get one?

Dunno. I thought Prendas did one, but it seems not. They do the other La Vie Clair/Wonder jersey - http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2239

daviesee

Agent57 wrote:

daviesee wrote:

Whilst cycling in a white concrete area in bright sunshine, black may be the best HiViz. Past a yellow rapeseed field - blue. Past a green field - red. Past a coal slag heap- white.

What to wear? What to wear?

The combined jersey from leTour.

Thanks for that - my eyes hurt 8)

Must mean it would work though

meanredspider

Agent57 wrote:

meanredspider wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

The combined jersey from leTour.

Cool - that works well - where can I get one?

Dunno. I thought Prendas did one, but it seems not. They do the other La Vie Clair/Wonder jersey - http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=2239

Yeak - I like the spots though - and, whilst I don't give a stuff about what anybody thinks about my "right" to wear it, I also don't want to look like tweedledum when riding with my mate in his KotM jersey.

deptfordmarmoset

jds_1981 wrote:

wizzlebanger wrote:

3-400 yards up the road was a cyclist wearing hi-vis and a cyclist wearing dark clothing riding side by side. I actually commented to my wife that even during the day the cyclist wearing hi-vis was much easier to see. At that distance the other cyclist was more or less just a dark blob / shadow.

by the way 300 yards travelling at 60mph is not very long.

Perception can be a very odd thing though. You noticed them both & you've not proven that had there been only the dark clothed one you wouldn't have noticed him as quickly as the other...

As they say about the plural of anecdote...

I've been wondering about that perception business - if you come across 2 cyclists, one in hi-vis and the other in everyday clothing, you might notice the hi-vis rider first simply because they are competing harder for your attention but that doesn't mean that you wouldn't notice the rider in ordinary clothes on their own - and it even must be possible that the hi-vis rider could be endangering the less garish rider by ''overshadowing'' them.

Another perception puzzle for me is the flash-or-don't-flash question. I've noticed that while flashing front lights are more noticeable when there's other traffic round, when there's a flashing light on a darker stretch of road, without the ambient light cast by other vehicles, it becomes very difficult to get an accurate fix on the rider's exact position and speed - the eye gets dazzled by the on phase and then plunged into extreme blackness during the off phase. You know there's something there but not where or how fast it's going. (Or how slow I'm going...) I find that I'm beginning to favour the constant light option.

rjsterry

I understood that best practice is one of each - flashing and constant - front and rear for exactly the reasons you state.

Anyone catch the news item about Xenon HID car headlights and how they are great for the driver who has them and not so good for everyone else - there seem to be the first rumblings of some attempt to limit how bright these can be. Not before time.