recumbentpanda
Guru
Bar end plugs with amber/yellow reflectors. -There you go. Make a fortune on me.
All the reflective end plugs on the market seem to be red. (This seems to go for ones with lights in too)
Thats perfectly fine for drop bars and other types where the bar ends point backwards, but what about straight or MTB and BMX ‘riser’ types where the bar ends point more or less sideways?
Or, to be selfish for a moment, the three inch section of flat bar that forms my home-engineered front light mount on my long wheelbase recumbent. 😏 A couple in there would be really good when nosing out of junctions and would discourage the spiders in my shed from nesting inside it . . .
Red in all of those types of bar would be confusing. Amber would be correct as the colour used on most vehicles for sidelights and lateral markers.
I can’t afford to wait on production lead times so I will be making a couple of sets of my own, probably from Sugrue hacking putty and yellow reflective tape. But there you go bike industry. I’m betting there’s going to be at least as many flat bars on the road this winter as drops, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they outnumbered drops considerably. It’s a market waiting to be exploited. Go get it.
All the reflective end plugs on the market seem to be red. (This seems to go for ones with lights in too)
Thats perfectly fine for drop bars and other types where the bar ends point backwards, but what about straight or MTB and BMX ‘riser’ types where the bar ends point more or less sideways?
Or, to be selfish for a moment, the three inch section of flat bar that forms my home-engineered front light mount on my long wheelbase recumbent. 😏 A couple in there would be really good when nosing out of junctions and would discourage the spiders in my shed from nesting inside it . . .
Red in all of those types of bar would be confusing. Amber would be correct as the colour used on most vehicles for sidelights and lateral markers.
I can’t afford to wait on production lead times so I will be making a couple of sets of my own, probably from Sugrue hacking putty and yellow reflective tape. But there you go bike industry. I’m betting there’s going to be at least as many flat bars on the road this winter as drops, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they outnumbered drops considerably. It’s a market waiting to be exploited. Go get it.
