Originally Posted by
acantor
Do this experiment:
Go riding with two friends, one wearing a fluorescent vest, and the other without.
Follow behind them by a few hundred metres for a few hours, and decide which one's sartorial style you want to emulate!
A bright vest makes your existence known earlier to drivers. I want drivers to notice me 10 seconds in advance rather than 0.1 seconds too late!
And if the driver has their head down texting you could be sporting a small nuclear explosion complete with mushroom cloud and they would never see you. I have made more than one strategic bail out due to an inattentive motorist. The last one I bailed into the ditch, just in time to watch the car roll across the shoulder into the trees in front of me. If I had not bailed I probably would have gotten clipped (best case) or be run over (worst case). The bimbo driving had been texting and finally admitted it to the police.
Aaron
