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You could be wearing a bright clowns suit with flashing lights and bright streamers, and the cage drivers still wouldn't see you.I don't think they want to see you.
Out riding the old Ariel and pulled over by a motor officer who told me that he'd recently returned to work after having been rear-ended with his blues flashing! I couldn't believe it! Search image is everything. He still wrote me a ticket. Next helmet will probably be white. Moon eyes or some similar graphics probably help. This image from a German helmet supplier.https://www.24helmets.de/en/mooneyes-sticker-moon-eyes
I have to ask. What possible illegal thing could you have been doing on an old Ariel? Cops in your area don’t have any real crime to fight?Larry
This was way more fun.
Typical Snohomish county speed trap. Rural road, mostly trees, posted 45-50. No real change in the road except a couple of residences ahead but the limit had dropped to 35. He was off the sight line in a gravel logging(?) road with a chain across. 53mph. Stopped just past him but he threw the book anyway. Called it a tax.This was way more fun.
Here in Italy, the problem is not that they don't see you, but that they don't CARE about you...
There's no substitute for commanding the space around you and demanding others see you.
Maybe when someone they care about if maimed or killed, then they'll change their priorities.
Unfortunately, getting and keeping a drivers license in the states is far to easy. That goes for M/C as well. When my father was in his early 80's he was stricken with Parkinson's disease. He could barely walk unaided, yet he was able to renew his drivers license with just a vision exam. When I told him he was in no condition to be behind the wheel and would kill someone, he said, "I've got lots of insurance!"
Is that the 37 0r the 49 red Hunter, Im guessing the 1937 by the girder forksMy first real bike was a 600 single side valve VB Ariel, I think 1949 with telescopic forks.I had another old 600 with one piece head and barrel, brass plugs to get the valves out.