Why Do U Remove Fork Reflectors?
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The reflectors technically are a DOT requirement, they're required to configure them that way.
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Gone... removed all five (put chrome inserts into the saddlebag slots).
Removed as I didn't want yellow and red on the bike (yeah, yeah, I know I could have put smoked ones back on...)
Changed the lights to smoked lens Custom Dynamics as well.
Bike is basically "colorless"... because I like it that way.
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Removed as I didn't want yellow and red on the bike (yeah, yeah, I know I could have put smoked ones back on...)
Changed the lights to smoked lens Custom Dynamics as well.
Bike is basically "colorless"... because I like it that way.
Ride On...
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OP, how is that LED kit a replacement for the reflectors, and your concern in the original post?
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Mine are still on my bike, and if they ever come off, it will ONLY be for CD fork lights. Watching Traveling Tall, on youtube, he had an excellent point. The reflectors only can reflect IF the light is aimed at them, the fork lights are visible even if lights are not on them. I rarely ride at nite (gettin old) but when I do, I WANT to be seen. Same goes for daylight riding as well, which is why I added CD Fillerz, a week ago.
Wouldn't mind the saddle bag lights either.
Not part of the "blacking out" crowd, but to each their own.
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In Merrie England when I visited they had reflectors on the roads as night-time lane markers, which they call "cat's eyes".
Apparently the old boy that invented them got the idea after seeing a cat standing on the road in front of his car at night time and its eyes lit up like beacons.
Good thing the cat wasn't facing the other way or he would have invented the pencil sharpener instead.
Apparently the old boy that invented them got the idea after seeing a cat standing on the road in front of his car at night time and its eyes lit up like beacons.
Good thing the cat wasn't facing the other way or he would have invented the pencil sharpener instead.
