Originally Posted by kf5nd
Don't bother with the CPSC approved reflectors. Go to an auto supply store and get a large SAE approved red reflector. Set the reflector up facing backwards in place of the stock bike reflector. MUCH better rearward performance than the stock bike reflector. You may have to improvise a bit with the mounting, I used a cable tie and glue to fasten my reflector to the bike reflector mounting hardware, but now it's secure.
How did you determine what is acceptable/non acceptable performance for a bicycle reflector?
What makes you think CPSC approved reflectors provide inadequate performance, or that bicycle reflector performance is only made acceptable by "better" SAE approved reflectors, especially if it requires an improvised jury-rigged attachment?
Originally Posted by kf5nd
.... reflectors are legally required in many places... so if you don't have one, and get killed by some jack-ass because of his poor driving, they might let him off on the technicality that you weren't legally equipped.
It has happened, many times. It is so not funny.
That's why some people call reflectors their "lawyer reflectors". Like "lawyer tabs" on a front fork.
Happened many times? "Some people" call/say lots of things.
Do you consider a night time motorist who strikes an unlit, un-reflectorized, virtually invisible cyclist to be a poor driving jack-ass? If not, can you name any instances where some actual poor driving jack-ass got let off because of a reflector technicality?