The little white front and red tail reflectors that come with a newly bought bike are not only useless in most cases, but often take extra room and interfere with mounting lights etc. on handlebar and seat post. They are useless nuisance. Couldn't the manufacturers just make part of the bike frame reflective with reflective painting or reflective tapes (like many of us do)? What do you think?
And a year later, at least one bike frame with reflective paint is now available commercially:
the Mission Bicycle Lumen Frame + Fork Retro-reflective frameset
I've also seen a
Boston-based aftermarket service named Hub Powderworks applying a
retro-reflective coating ("Halo Coatings") to bike frames.
