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Why not just stick a yellow revolving light on top of your helmet? (crash helmet, that is).
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I was just about to mention them when I got to this post; so, how about the green flashing light that doctors' personal cars can use?
But yes, the yellow revolving flashers are relatively easy to find in safety, construction stores and the like. There are lots of highway employee vehicles driving around on the UK motorways with one on show in the back window. (Anyone from outside the UK must be bored with this discussion by now).
I can see some logic in the "tribal" research. We would all look out for larger vehicles, such as trucks, because they are the bigger predators that will do us serious damage if we ignore them! Self preservation instinct basically.
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I can see some logic in the "tribal" research. We would all look out for larger vehicles, such as trucks, because they are the bigger predators that will do us serious damage if we ignore them! Self preservation instinct basically.
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Ah!,, so that is why some modern bikes look like trucks ( and weigh the same too )
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I was just about to mention them when I got to this post;
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Years ago, there used to be an advert in MCN for the "BackLite"
A forward facing, white light was mounted behind the rider so that it illuminated him/her for visibility.
Cant believe anyone ever bought one, but if someone invented it, there was bound to be a like minded individual that stumped up the ready's.
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The threat ...
Many years ago here the police bikes were black .. if you had a black bike you were 'seen' by all the other road users.
Now I have an expolice white bike .. I do notice I get 'seen' .. well, if I wash it.
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sorry did'nt see you
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I can see some logic in the "tribal" research. We would all look out for larger vehicles, such as trucks, because they are the bigger predators that will do us serious damage if we ignore them! Self preservation instinct basically.
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i'm a truck driver as well as a biker and am sorry to say car drivers dont see us neither!!!! so you need to make your bike bigger and more visible than my 44 ton white truck! and it takes a bit of time to stop these things!!! you just need good defensive riding, i've been on the road 21yrs without accident but always on the lookout for a t**t in a car! mind i've had close shaves!
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