http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: lights visibility reflectives - Recent Topics en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:17:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11785#post-135654 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:26:42 +0000 fimm 135654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was folding my bike up at Livingston North station this evening when a very polite and pleasant lady came and spoke to me. She told me that she &amp; her husband had passed me in their car as I was cycling on the way there, and they had felt that I was not very visible at all. I have two lights, and she agreed that she could see them, but she still felt that I could be more visible, and wondered if I had something reflective to wear. </p> <p>The conversation was entirely polite - I thanked her for speaking to me and I do think that she was genuinely trying to be helpful, and so I'm left feeling a bit conflicted. I do have two identical Cateye rear lights (and actually I wonder if all I need is some new batteries, taking a bit of a look at them when I got home I think that might be a plan); but I other than that I wear a long black coat and a grey hat (and today I had black trousers on, too). So I do make some demands of drivers to notice me.</p> <p>I've been having a few issues on that stretch of road recently too - it is the bit just after the roadworks where cars are accelerating away after being "held up" behind me while going through the one-way section (at least I assume that's where they passed me). I've had a few alarming moments there. </p> <p>(Actually, I think there might be a street light out along there, too. I'll have to have a proper look tomorrow.)</p> <p>I've got a perfectly good tabard with reflectives on it - I just chose to stop wearing it, on the basis that I shouldn't have to dress up like an idiot to cycle on the road. Do I just admit defeat and wear it? Or shall I save up for a brighter rear light in the New Year?</p> <p>What would you do? </p>