Timeline for How can I make my bike (and myself) visible at night?
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| Oct 27, 2011 at 21:03 | comment | added | James Schek | 3M SOLAS tape is among the best reflective tapes out there, but it is completely ineffective when you are off-angle from the headlights... i.e. you haven't crossed in front of the car yet. | |
| Oct 19, 2010 at 18:13 | comment | added | Don Kirkby | Thanks for the tip, @Martin. My local marine supply store carries it, but it's $32 for 12 sheets of 2"x4" tape. Maybe it'll go in my wife's Christmas stocking. (Don't tell her.) | |
| Oct 18, 2010 at 22:16 | comment | added | mgb | There is even better stuff called SOLAS tape, it's used on lifeboats/Oil rigs/etc. It's has little reflective hexagons on it and it lights up like a spotlight in car headlights. I've had cars screech to a halt when I go across a street in front of them with a bike covered in it. | |
| Sep 2, 2010 at 16:43 | history | answered | Don Kirkby | CC BY-SA 2.5 |