High Visibility Vest

I wear a Tour Master jacket whose mesh is black and fluorescent yellow. Yeah, I look like a BMW rider and I'm not fooling myself into thinking that this is the end all, but I want to do everything I can to be seen. I second the vote for the headlight modulator for the same reason. Just wish I could know it will work with positive ground.

Bonwit said:

I second the vote for the headlight modulator for the same reason. Just wish I could know it will work with positive ground.

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If it won't you could easily change over to negative earth if you're using a solid state regulator/rectifier, not if you're still using the zenner diode though!
Dave.

daveparry said:

Bonwit said:

I second the vote for the headlight modulator for the same reason. Just wish I could know it will work with positive ground.

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If it won't you could easily change over to negative earth if you're using a solid state regulator/rectifier, not if you're still using the zenner diode though!
Dave.

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Another reason to switch to a negative ground. The only reason for keeping a positive ground would be tradition. Getting rid of the half-assed rectifier and zener regulator is certainly a plus.

High-Vis Vest almost didn't work! Today I was cruising through "Hamburger Row" wearing my High-Vis driving the posted 35 MPH. A lady driver in a car (talking to her passenger) exiting a drive-thru Taco Bell attempted to pull out in front of me. :shock: Able to brake in time to come to almost a dead stop she finally saw me and then she braked. Does anybody out there in the forum would call this an incident of a "Distracted Driver"? :| Or should I chalk this up that the High Vis may not even help? :x

Drive defensively

travelerjerry said:

High-Vis Vest almost didn't work! Today I was cruising through "Hamburger Row" wearing my High-Vis driving the posted 35 MPH. A lady driver in a car (talking to her passenger) exiting a drive-thru Taco Bell attempted to pull out in front of me. :shock: Able to brake in time to come to almost a dead stop she finally saw me and then she braked. Does anybody out there in the forum would call this an incident of a "Distracted Driver"? :| Or should I chalk this up that the High Vis may not even help? :x

Drive defensively

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Did you go over and kick in the side of her car door? Sometimes these brain-dead folks need a little reminder that those cars kill.

swooshdave said:

Did you go over and kick in the side of her car door? Sometimes these brain-dead folks need a little reminder that those cars kill.

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Tha't why I used to like my steel trimmed motocross boots!


Yesterday I was heading into town when a rather attractive young blonde lady drove her car straight across in front of me from a side-road.
All this time she was looking in the opposite direction, otherwise she might have noticed the large 4-wheel drive Land Rover Discovery being manfully wrestled to a halt by your humble scribe.
She finally noticed me once she had crossed the road and was facing me (the 'no-longer' oncoming traffic).
I don't think a high-viz vest would have helped me much, but the fender bars on my disco would have!

I think she could lip-read....once she was looking at me, that is....

I purchased a neon green vest for as 4 day ride I took with Retrotours (www.retrotours.com), check them out. One other guy also had this vest and I could see him easliy up to 1/4 mile away, even in the shaky mirrors of the 1970 Triumph Bonneville I was riding.

Nothing will stop a determined distracted driver, but if the vest deters even one cage operator from hitting me than the $70 I spent for it was well worth it, and if it doesn't than me, or my estate, will own the SOB.

RS