Originally Posted by
chipcom
+1 No jacket can touch
this vest for night time visibility.
Oooo, them's fightin' words!
Note how the jacket has a ton of reflective tape right across my behind. The lower it is, the stronger it's hit by low-beam headlights, and the more directly it faces traffic.
Jacket plus ANSI Class II vest. With the reflective stripes down the sleeves, I feel a lot more confidence that my arm signals are seen from across an intersection in the dark.
As a side note, satin-finish reflective tape is noted for losing a lot of reflectivity when wet. That's one reason I double up and use my reflective vest over my customized jacket... the vest's tape is high-quality glossy reflective tape that sheds water and thus retains most of its reflectivity.