trscott
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I started a thread at AdvRider about dressing for visibility and got to wondering if you folks see a similar phenomenon in the UK.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4274371#post4274371
If you got to the motorcycle shops here in the US, the road touring gear is predominantly black or grey. Ironically the motorcross off-road stuff is more often high visibility colors. It is very difficult to find a touring jacket in neon yellow or something similar. Being a market capitalist, I understand that this means we bikers are not dressing to be visible. If we were buying high visibility, that would be what the shops would carry.
What really brought this issue home to me was my MSF (motorcycle safety foundation) Basic Rider Training class. The instructors talked about dressing in high visibility gear, but they were actually all wearing black or grey when they rode. I was the only one in the class in anything you could call high visibility. I bought an Olympia AST in neon yellow and like it very well.
The trouble is, I hear bikers complain about car drivers not paying any attention to them, but the vast majority of us are dressing like Johnny Cash Ninjas.
I am gratified to find a few folks here agreeing with me that we have some responsibility here, but am surprised at the number of folks who don't seem to understand their inconsistency on the subject.
Do you see the same thing there in the UK? Or are you more concerned with riding safely than some mis-guided sense of style?
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4274371#post4274371
If you got to the motorcycle shops here in the US, the road touring gear is predominantly black or grey. Ironically the motorcross off-road stuff is more often high visibility colors. It is very difficult to find a touring jacket in neon yellow or something similar. Being a market capitalist, I understand that this means we bikers are not dressing to be visible. If we were buying high visibility, that would be what the shops would carry.
What really brought this issue home to me was my MSF (motorcycle safety foundation) Basic Rider Training class. The instructors talked about dressing in high visibility gear, but they were actually all wearing black or grey when they rode. I was the only one in the class in anything you could call high visibility. I bought an Olympia AST in neon yellow and like it very well.
The trouble is, I hear bikers complain about car drivers not paying any attention to them, but the vast majority of us are dressing like Johnny Cash Ninjas.
I am gratified to find a few folks here agreeing with me that we have some responsibility here, but am surprised at the number of folks who don't seem to understand their inconsistency on the subject.
Do you see the same thing there in the UK? Or are you more concerned with riding safely than some mis-guided sense of style?