18-12-15, 01:09 AM
They help without a doubt, especially when raining at night with less visibilty.
There's been a few times when i've been walking up the main road in my area and i've seen smaller older bikes go past and other than a small red dot of a tail light the rider just blends into the background and vanishes into darkness.
And that's with clear vision, when you're out on the bike at night in rain you know how bad things can get visually, especially with headlights/brake lights lighting every raindrop up on the visor, so even for our benefit as well it's good if other bikers can be seen too.
Another thing as well is that when i don't wear it, which is highly unlikely these days, i feel as if car drivers treat me even worse than normal on the roads, as if i'm not even there.
Makes a big difference wearing a decent well made hi-vis singlet with a zip though, rather than using those crappy flappy builders ones that are shite over 10mph.
There's been a few times when i've been walking up the main road in my area and i've seen smaller older bikes go past and other than a small red dot of a tail light the rider just blends into the background and vanishes into darkness.
And that's with clear vision, when you're out on the bike at night in rain you know how bad things can get visually, especially with headlights/brake lights lighting every raindrop up on the visor, so even for our benefit as well it's good if other bikers can be seen too.
Another thing as well is that when i don't wear it, which is highly unlikely these days, i feel as if car drivers treat me even worse than normal on the roads, as if i'm not even there.
Makes a big difference wearing a decent well made hi-vis singlet with a zip though, rather than using those crappy flappy builders ones that are shite over 10mph.
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