Winter, night time, commuting

[400bhp]

Is the OP impersonating a police officer?

 

[400bhp]

Lights x 2 on the front and rear.

Usually wear arm and ankle bands too. They may be on sale again for a few quid in the Aldi special offers a week on Thursday.

Most cycling kit these days automatically comes with reflective bits and bobs.

 

[Polite]

Is the OP impersonating a police officer?

Absolutely not. Have you got a guilty conscience?

 

[potsy]

I wear my reflective helmet

 

[BigAl68]

Good lights and most of my clothes including shoes have a few bits of reflective piping. I wear mainly black however as high viz doesn't do anything in the dark as previously stated.

 

[classic33]

I'm presuming that you wear clothes as well?

Be a bit cold if he doesn't!

 

[donnydave]

Jacket or waistcoat with reflectives, depending on the temperature.

John Virgo special?

 

[DCLane]

Good lights and I've a reflective cover on the rucksack.

 

[upandover]

I have a reflective chequed band around my helmet, reflective strips on the back of my cycle shoes (the stick on ones), and on my pannier, and some of my clothing has good reflective strips that it came with or that I've added such as on my rain jacket, but often I'm just wearing what I'm wearing that day. I also (I like reflectives) have strips on my wheels and frame which light up nicely when light hits them. My fav are the black reflective strips on my pedals which show the movement nicely.

I also have a couple of good lights front and back. Overkill ones really, then I like torches.

 

[inkd]

Nightvision jacket when its below 2-3 degrees and some very blinding rear lights, Great for my night commute on the dark roads round here.

 

[fossyant]

Reflectives and good lights are the key. Then again, they only work if the driver can be bothered to look

 

[ACS]

During the darker months I use a Nitezone Courier Reflective Vest over whatever jacket I'm wearing. On the back I have 2x Smart Lunar R2 lights one steady and one flashing and up front a set of Ay Up Road lights in combination with a couple of UltraFire Torches. I must add that my 11.5 mile commute is on very rural mostly single track roads without any street lighting.

 

[Spartak]

Spoke reflectors 8-)

I bought mine from Lidl !

 

[siadwell]

There's a recent Australian study (http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47281/) that found that reflective bands at the knee and ankle were most effective (more effective than lights IIRC!).

Lidl spoke reflectors are excellent, but of course don't work so well from directly behind.

If you're considering reflective bands, be aware that they are not all equal. I tested a snap band given away by Sustrans against an old velcro one that uses Reflexite material and whilst they look similarly bright in daylight, the latter was much more reflective. There's actually an EU standard (EN13356) for this kind of thing and most cheap bands won't meet it. One of the few I've found that do is http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/Asaklitt-Reflective-Snap-Band/34-9146

 

[fossyant]

Nothing like riding in the dark, especially down a pitch black trail with 10 gigawatts of lights out front. Burn you critters.