Side Reflectors ---- Yes or Not?
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Ventura, Ca.
RE: Side Reflectors ---- Yes or Not?
they would help if you were sitting at a cross roads waiting for something to run your *** over. they are no the sides, i'm more worried about front and back. the bike looks better for sure
Intermediate
Joined: Sep 2008
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From: Miami
I didn't bother reading all 8 pages, so if this is a repeat, I apologize.
I was parked on street perpendicular to the curb with my front end pointed out to the traffic. A cop came by, saw I had no side reflector and wrote me a fix-it ticket for not having a reflective device visable to traffic. He could see the glue from where my other one had fell off.
But it looks better w/o
~ RIDE SAFE ~
I was parked on street perpendicular to the curb with my front end pointed out to the traffic. A cop came by, saw I had no side reflector and wrote me a fix-it ticket for not having a reflective device visable to traffic. He could see the glue from where my other one had fell off.
But it looks better w/o
~ RIDE SAFE ~
Cruiser
Joined: Sep 2008
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I plan on leaving mine on as well. I live in Phoenix where people drive like buttholes. I figure anything I can do that will make me more visible, no matter how little they work or how bad they look is a good thing. Plus when I ride I don't have to look at them, other people do and screw them.
Chris
Chris
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From: Huntingdon, TN
I feel about the same way, though I think I'll get the 'Stealth Black' tape and once it's arrived *then* I'll yank off the stock reflectors and replace them with the tape. (The stock reflectors don't work very well anyway, except with a pure white light on 'em, like from the flash on a camera). Until I get the tape though, they stay on. Who gives a **** if someone else says it looks like a bicycle? If they can't tell the difference between a H-D Super Glide and a bicycle, they aren't whom I'd call the swooftest minded of folk anywhere.
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From: Miami
Hmmm.... Maybe I didn't get any functional point across in my post.
When you are parked perpendicular to traffic, there is pretty much NOTHING reflective. A yellow spot of reflected light may save some idiot form clipping the front of your bike.
Just my opinion, but I'd rather make my bike more noticeable, not less.
~ RIDE SAFE ~
When you are parked perpendicular to traffic, there is pretty much NOTHING reflective. A yellow spot of reflected light may save some idiot form clipping the front of your bike.
Just my opinion, but I'd rather make my bike more noticeable, not less.
~ RIDE SAFE ~
