There is no more outstanding piece of hi-viz on the road that one is likely to see, save for a police cruiser that has pulled someone over and its driver has exited the vehicle. They can be seen literally for miles. They get hit anyway. Notwithstanding this, the lights and hi-viz graphics remain standard equipment on police cruisers and the vehicles of other municipal fleets. For years I rode (safely) without flashers, mainly because they were not yet invented. Now they have been with us many years and I own a few. I never use more than one per bike and never in the daytime. Sometimes I get home and find out that I lost a flasher somewhere along the way... I suppose I could take from that that flashers are a waste of money. Hi-viz clothing too. Just run Ninja. Yes that is one conclusion one could come to. I choose to come to another one. That is, on one or more occasions my flasher and/or hi-viz soft shell jacket did, in fact, save me. The times when I didn't have them, I was lucky. There is only so much luck a person can have. You can use it all up by relying on it every night or you can help it out by doing what you can for yourself between miracles. All that said, it disturbs me greatly that so many of you "get hit". All those years I ran without helmets, flashers or hi-viz clothing, all the thousands of bombed stoplights and roasted stop signs... never, ever, a collision with another road user. There isn't that much luck in the world. Some of it comes down to rider skill and awareness. To put it another way: you can still get hit with your daylight flashers and your hi-viz or whatever you decide to spend your money on if you simply go out there, smug in the knowledge that they see you. What if they don't? Will you know? Are you aware of the warning signs of impending disaster? Can you do something about that? Often you can. Or when you can't, or shouldn't, proceed, there are often clues about when that is that a savvy cyclist just knows by instinct. They don't get hit because they don't put themselves in situations where they can get ht. I'll leave it there.

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