Originally Posted by
pdlamb
This is a telling response, IMHO, in that it illustrates the problem with any lighting. When the PBSF came out, it lit up the night! Now it's only good enough to be a secondary light. What's attention-grabbing this year will be leftover trash in two years.
And yet, I keep seeing more and more people wearing high-vis lime or orange. It used to be only road construction flag persons; now the guys driving mechanical garbage trucks wear them -- much less every cop who gets out of his car at an accident. If you're really worried about being seen in the day, loud clothing is being used by more people who are only intermittently on the streets, and practically everyone who spends any serious time in the roads. Could it be the high-vis green or orange jersey or jacket is good enough for a cyclist?
I use both. They both have their uses. Hi vis doesn't do me any good in pitch black on high speed roads. I want a light that people can see when they come over the rise half a mile behind me and start wondering what that is, so they start paying attention. If they're not thinking there's something odd going on up there in plenty of time, they may not be paying attention to the road in the 5 seconds they'll have between when their headlights illuminate me and when they reach me.