High-viz jackets.

[hackbike 666]

Wearing a helmet or HiVi shouldn't make you feel safer or more confident, they are more parts of cycling kit that are a valid part of road safety, but only at certain times.

Wear all the time and I don't even think about the fact I am wearing either.

Let you into a little secret.I wear a helmet because im a bald twat.
I wear hi-viz because I like looking like a twat.HTH.

There will always be motorists that don't see you, whatever you wear, and it's only alert and positive riding will actually help you in this situation.

As yesterday proved and it probably proved to me that I don't rely on Hi-Viz which would probably go as I have to look out for crossing peds on my commute who won't 'see' me,a bit like yesterdays motorist who didn't look.I suppose a lot of the time I always expect something twattish.

 

[tdr1nka]

Let you into a little secret.I wear a helmet because im a bald twat.
I wear hi-viz because I like looking like a twat.HTH.

Now those are all the right reasons!

There's a guy who comes thru New Cross on a Brompton and he wears HiVi jacket and trousers, you're hard pushed to miss him.

 

[purplepolly]

Helmets & HiVi are there to lessen potential danger and neither can stop accidents or harm in every circumstance.

If your riding is assertive, positive and visable you 'shouldn't' need either, but both have their uses in certain conditions.
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I usually wear hi-viz because I like to ride assertively and look incompetent.

 

[tdr1nka]

I usually wear hi-viz because I like to ride assertively and look incompetent.

I like it! The old double bluff!.

 

[fossyant]

Drivers don't look...it's the 0.01% that cause the issues for cyclists and other motorists alike...it's just my roll cage is my bones.........

 

[fossyant]

Hi-viz makes you look like a slower cyclist..... start riding quick, the idiots don't realise a bike can go as fast as a car..........

 

[hackbike 666]

Eh? I am a slower cyclist.

 

[tdr1nka]

Know your place!

 

[hackbike 666]

Age has got to me and it's so bloody annoying.Been off the booze for over a month now but im still no faster.

 

[tdr1nka]

Off the booze but still on the pies?

 

[hackbike 666]

16 stone,is that the problem?

Hmmm yes im sure I was lighter than that.Im 6'2" and I don't know what I should weigh.

 

[tdr1nka]

Depending on your build, 'ideally' you should be around 12.5 stone, we're the same height and I'm around 13.5(since Christmas*ahem*).

 

[hackbike 666]

Ouch.You must be built like a rake then.

Are you fast?

 

[Tynan]

I'm 6'1" and a bit and I was 13.5 stone when I was 17and playing Rugby (in the three quarters) and was fighting fit, I've been as low as 14st since then but really looked thin

it's about build as much as height

 

[tdr1nka]

Ouch.You must be built like a rake then.

Are you fast?

I used to be both!

My brother is 6' 4", 15.5 stone and he's in no way fat.
FWIW those body mass index thingies don't always equate.

Hang on, did you just challenge me to a race?