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I think drivers to not notice or defer to you due to your level of visibility as much as your level of threat.I saw a lady the other day on a bike and she was wearing an almost perfect copy of a police uniform. The word “Police” on her vest was replaced with “Polite” which had some other much smaller text with it to give context.Obviously approaching the boundaries regarding impersonating an officer but I’ll tell you, the eye was drawn IMMEDIATELY to her presence.So did she.
Behavioral psychology may offer some perspective. It’s difficult to be certain that riders wearing hi-viz do not behave in a different way because of their deliberate look-at-me wardrobe choices. Many (most?) riders wearing non hi-viz gear never get hit by cars. is that because of their behavior, the other drivers behavior, the chosen hi-viz/non hi-viz gear, ??. Aside from the reflective gear worn after dark that is illuminated by headlights and makes persons more likely to be seen, regular hi-viz may or may not be part of a direct cause-effect relationship. Imho, if you ride like you’re going to get hit all the time, you’ll probably be more careful to help prevent it from happening. So presenting yourself in a way that makes you be seen, no matter what you’re wearing, is the best overall strategy. If hi-viz makes the rider more cognoscente of how he or she presents themself, that’s a good enough reason for wearing it. I’ll even suggest that the most likely way to be noticed by the most drivers in daylight hours is to ride naked. Everybody will look, take pics, post it to the interweb and likely even make you a local celebrity that people try to notice when they’re driving. Everybody here already owns their own naked free & clear, so it’s free- guzzi content… But I hear eye bleach is pretty $$$ where you can find it.
White Helmet for 20 years.Yellow Hi-Viz for a dozen years.I think it helps, but always remain vigilant and proactive.upload a picture
Always solid white helmet here. 12% less fatal crashes for white helmeted riders. Good enough for me.
You have to love statistics! Who concluded that the color white is why, versus the type of crash, type of rider, type of bike usually associated with white helmets? LOL!
https://motorcyclebrave.com/best-color-for-a-motorcycle-helmet/
Not a very impressive website.And the article is full of arguable conclusions presented as assumptions or unsupported by the methodology or even direct citation of the study in question.It may contain some truths but I'd be skeptical until better proven.
The article did link directly to the study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387473/
I’ll even suggest that the most likely way to be noticed by the most drivers in daylight hours is to ride naked. Everybody will look, take pics, post it to the interweb and likely even make you a local celebrity that people try to notice when they’re driving. Everybody here already owns their own naked free & clear, so it’s free- guzzi content… But I hear eye bleach is pretty $$$ where you can find it.
Agree, only safety nerds wear white helmets, so there is that.However, by personal observation, solid helmets do stand out better and white arguably stands out best, so I figure it can’t hurt. Plus, not dying 12% sounds good.That carbon Viii in your signature sounds like 100% instant death. What is it, the color of asphalt? You best get rid of it pronto.
This cracked me up, I was thinking about the movie MacGruber... They have to break into the bad guys' compound... MacGruber tells his team "I'll create a diversion"He runs around the side of the building and when he pops back out, he's buck naked with a stalk of celery sticking out of his ass Needless to say, the diversion works and they they storm the compound (spoiler alert)
I'm amazed that anyone needs a study to confirm what is already obvious.
On the idea of extra lights - how about headlight modulators? Anyone use one on their Guzzi? I’ve wondered about the constant varying current and whether it would stress our already less than robust voltage regulators.
This cracked me up, I was thinking about the movie MacGruber... They have to break into the bad guys' compound... MacGruber tells his team "I'll create a diversion"He runs around the side of the building and when he pops back out, he's buck naked with a stalk of celery sticking out of his ass
That said, I personally don't care for modulators (front or rear). I think that either can, at a glance, send the wrong signal to a driver and the last thing you want to do is confuse the biggest idiot on the road. Plus I find them personally annoying but that's a totally separate issue, it's just that I find something like that annoying I'm not willing to subject others to it.