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His vis vests are no substitutes for lights.

  • 02-10-2010 6:16pm
    #1
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭


    I see people all donned up in his-vis with no lights all the time. It's really stupid and more importantly it's not very chic. Get a set of cateyes FFS!


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  • #2
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,461 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    you're not wrong

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Even cheap lights would be better than nothing, and the cheap ones can be very cheap and surprisingly good.


  • #4
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭kenmc


    I craic up at the genii who go out and get one light, red, and stick it on the handlebars. as forest gump said, stupid is as stupid does. Darwin awards thataway.


  • #5
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,069 ✭✭✭✭neris


    just on way home from lithuania and in last few hours ive seen 1 guy on road bike all black gear at dusk no lights or high viz jacket. Hour later driving dark unlite badly surfaced main road into vilnius another cyclist all in black witha tiny red light and last night 3 lads cycling on busy footpath no lights or jackets either. Some people really are idiots with a death wish and not just in ireland


  • #6
    feck sake lads
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,889 ✭✭✭feck sake lads


    when the high vis vests came out first i remember going to my usual friday night session in a friend's house way out in the sticks, anyway going round a nasty bit of a bend i met this cyclist coming towards me wearing his high vis ,not knowing what it was it scared the be jesus out of me :eek: he lit up like a green devil when my head lights hit him :D:D
    ah well guess you had to be there:D


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  • #7
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    Not forgetting that hi vis is also unforgivably ugly...:P


  • #8
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,500 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    coolbeans wrote: »
    Not forgetting that hi vis is also unforgivably ugly...:P

    I disagree.

    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/
    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/?page_id=52
    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/?page_id=289


  • #9
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,143 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Victor wrote: »
    I disagree.

    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/
    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/?page_id=52
    http://www.georgiaindublin.com/?page_id=289

    Or this.


  • #10
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    As an experiment a few winters ago I rode with a exposure joystick (240 lumen), a exposure strada(480 lumen) and a max daddy(960 lumen). I even stuck on some cateyes as well. Unsurprisingly made no difference motorists still didn't "see me" - why? because they didn't look.


  • #11
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    tunney wrote: »
    As an experiment a few winters ago I rode with a exposure joystick (240 lumen), a exposure strada(480 lumen) and a max daddy(960 lumen). I even stuck on some cateyes as well. Unsurprisingly made no difference motorists still didn't "see me" - why? because they didn't look.

    I think completely unlit roads are better than street lit roads, motorists drive on lit roads in a daze at night imo.


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  • #12
    nitrogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 698 ✭✭✭nitrogen


    That's why flashing lights are a must in a city. Even from a pedestrian's perspective, much easier see a bike coming with a flashing light than a green vest.


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