Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Reflective tape

OK. This stuff from 3M rocks on visibility. I have some on my bike and I had some on my bag until I got rained on today. It doesn't want to stick to wet canvas. Not really unexpected but I really like the visibility that it gave when it was on the bag. I ride a lot at night. Anyone have any ideas how to stick this stuff to my bag more permanently? I have a couple reflectors zip tied to the bag but the tape really is much better and I want to find a solution.

you can zip tie some of those otherwise useless long curved spoke reflectors to your helmet for the reflective mohawk look...

The tape I keep strictly on the metal bits. But there's lots of odd metal bits (less if ya ain't got no gears, but even then....)

Timbuk 3 has those hang tabs for your bag, too....

Anyone have any ideas how to stick this stuff to my bag more permanently?
How about my Trixie girlfriend attaches it to your bag while you are wearing it. She'll use an axe handle and some 20d nails to make sure it stays in place. We'll be right over.

Do the nails have reflective heads?? :)

It can be arranged...I hear that reflective tape sticks to metal.

Did Karstens give you some of his cheap "belligerent boy" wine or something? I mean really, I said I was sorry.

Did Karstens give you some of his cheap "belligerent boy" wine or something? I mean really, I said I was sorry.
C'mon, it's all in good fun. And I don't need wine, I got cheap beer.

Actually I found a bag for you here http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/catalog/categories.t2?categoryId=3
That way you can carry a spare tire with you and carry your mat with you at the same time.

On an "I hate marketing" note. Notice that she is riding a scooter past a coffee shop wearing a "Messenger" bag with some funky yoga doodle design on it. I'm gonna buy me a mountain someday and become a kook on the mountain.

On an "I hate marketing" note. Notice that she is riding a scooter past a coffee shop wearing a "Messenger" bag with some funky yoga doodle design on it. I'm gonna buy me a mountain someday and become a kook on the mountain.
You must have had skitbraviking as a teacher. I do not see the word "messenger" anywhere in the description of the Yoga bag (except in the materials they use for its construction). It is a "lifestyle" bag according to their website. I will let them know how much of your entrails is holds though.
I like how their messenger bags are shown in tandem with a ****ing Copper Mini. Asswipes.
Marketing makes me want to kill

I like those soothing geometric yoga patterns. Is that to hypnotize the motorists?? And - do I see that right - are they printed on the blessed reflective fabic of the 3M godz??

Om Shanti :)

OK. Anyone have any ideas how to stick this stuff to my bag more permanently?

needle and thread

Actually I found a bag for you here http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/catalog/categories.t2?categoryId=3
That way you can carry a spare tire with you and carry your mat with you at the same time.

:roflmao:

I've got a bag full of that reflective tape - I used to work for a company that did a lot of printing/assembly for 3M. They had a big project when that stuff rolled out where they had 5x8 inch sheets that you could punch out little samples out of the center. They were just going to throw out the half inch borders that were left over.

Actually ruined a bike thinking it would be cool to cover the entire thing with silver tape... It was already chrome. That stuff doesn't come off of metal very easy.

If you want something to stick on canvas, you're going to have to go with needle and thread. I wouldn't use the sticky stuff though - pick up something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=7295&item=3673446757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I hear that you can iron on it to your skin.

I want a tattoo in reflective ink!!!

They make invisible tattoos that don't show up until you're under a blacklight...

How about attaching a panel of lightweight plastic to the bag with the Scotchlite stuck to that? Something like the plastic used for 2-liter soft drink bottles, if you can figure out a way to make it lay flat. Maybe 165's girlfriend can help with her axe and nails.

how about getting some real hardcore glue epoxy resin or whatever it is, failing that, then there is the needle and thread option, but that's more effort and conceivably might leak into the bag

Here is a random idea:

Since this is an election year, find some campaign buttons; you know the ones with the pins. Put the tape over the face of the button, then pin the button to the bag.

Dan

Are you trying to tell me that 165's girlfriend is some sort of a blacksmith Rainman? Because I think that might make him a little upset as she is clearl a yoga toting trixie.
:)

Are you trying to tell me that 165's girlfriend is some sort of a blacksmith Rainman? Because I think that might make him a little upset as she is clearl a yoga toting trixie.
:)
As you like it...

']As you like it...

hahahahahahahah!!!!
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

']****ing Copper Mini.

Mini Copper...

Mini Copper...
as always...Schiek, the Ever Vijelant!

']As you like it...

Sounds about right to me... Although Uma is my wife. She only play's 165's gf for the movie.

']How about my Trixie girlfriend attaches it to your bag while you are wearing it. She'll use an axe handle and some 20d nails to make sure it stays in place. We'll be right over.

I'm never gonna live that down. When I make to Chi town, I'm gonna have to have a keg of PBR.

I have some reflective velcro like material I could front you. PM me.

Any one know where to buy reflective adheisive tape that will stick to a bike frame?

(sorry did i miss this elsewhere?)

christian

3M Reflective tape should be available at your local hardware store or even an automotive store. Sticks to the frame really good. When removing it from the frame most of the adheive stays on the frame but it is easily removed with WD-40

The 3M stuff is great. I've got strips of it on my helmet & bag, making it easy for cars to hunt me down and run me over. :P I've got a strip of it on my Chrome bag, too; it bugged me that the weave in the buckle straps was the only reflective surface.

I agree, the 3M stuff is great and should sell for about $1/ft in your local bike shop or hardware store. If you want more colors and choices than standard red, amber and white, here's some links to Identi-tape's web site:

http://www.identi-tape.com/hi-intensity.htm
http://www.identi-tape.com/safetyonetwo.htm


I've bought from them before online - both their product and service is excellent! They've also got other product like sew-on and iron-on reflective fabric strips, etc., see their index at:

http://www.identi-tape.com/index.html

:)

I still think 6d nails would work better than 10d nails, but oh well.

If you were really awesome, though, you'd be using a sh*tload of electroluminescent wire.

SHHHH!!! Don't talk about electroluminescent wire, you fool! HE might come back!

What, you mean Tron Boy?

Tron Boy....paging Tron Boy...

I've still got a big bag of the stuff... Green, red, silver, blue, yellow, brown... PM me and send me an envelope...

http://www.industrialnewsroom.com/fullstory/25822

Back to the original question, what about good ol safety pins? That's what I use.

Navy pilots use relective tape to create the designs on their helmets (not allowed in the USAF).
I try to do the same and use the regular white and red reflective tape from Wal-Mart and cut out designs for my bike and helmet.
I did attach some to my backpack by doubling it to itself and then ziptieing it to the bag.
Doc Tom

so, reflective tape just came up again in another thread...

i might just go ahead and buy of that tape for my commuter. does the tape still hold its reflective properties under a few coats of clear? does anyone have any experience with krylon's REFLECT-A-LITE spraypaint? combining the two products might be pretty effective. HereNT, sending pm.