Illuminant with reflective material

“At the driver more space than the frame or on the running wheels is” noted on Friday a reader to post “Everything Is Illuminated” and referred to the reflective vests, available at the hardware store. He is absolutely right. In autumn and winter there are the cyclists in their own hands, to illuminate her silhouette in the dark in any form. This protects them and allows motorists often only to recognize them at all early.

 

Children get to school enrollment by the school or the German Traffic yellow vests or V-shaped luminous collar, they can coat the morning in the dark season. Your charisma is immense. And adults who are sporty machine often resort to neon-reflective vests. Depending on what date you drive, but the West is not necessarily the garment of choice.

 

This is now but no longer a problem. The fashion industry has noticed that more and more people with the wheel are traveling, and has responded. Since two or three years, is slowly improving, but continuously quote for daily commuters. There are beautiful bike fashions that are functional clothing, but not outer as such. The Jean producer has manufactured for the first time in 1895 Bike Pants. The trick is: The reflective jackets and pants are not only breathable, but also equipped with reflectors, which can fold out when driving the back or that appear when you roll up the trouser leg.

 

Commuters who cover long distances, the reflectors are not sufficient often. You access to sport jackets with reflectors on the arms and back. Some manufacturers equip their cycling jackets even with small LED light strip, such as here. Wolfgang has developed with the Institute for Reliability and Micro-integration high-tech jacket.

 

In the tissue red and white LEDs are integrated in the shoulder and back area. The lights are linked to the movements of the cyclist. They are controlled by means of a microelectronic system, sensors and control elements as well as switches and battery integrated into the jacket.

 

The circuit board is flexible and resistant according to Institute to moisture. You could even be washed in the washing machine, they say. In last year Wolfgang received for Sporty the Red Dot Design Award. Wolfgang wants to sell the jacket via a campaign early next year, by mid-year there will be the jacket also in stores.

 

Significantly cheaper and also very practical are reflective arm and leg warmers. They simply coat sleeve or pant leg. Which are much smaller driver bands – the modern form of trouser clip? They are made of truck tarpaulin, or giant cinema posters that hung at international film festivals on facades. They are wider than the classic trouser belts and have a Velcro which holds really well. For better visibility, a relatively large reflective stripe delivers. And who needs a bag, can now rely on models that reflect also. A model has been here on the blog presented.

Vodafone: a jacket to protect cyclists

Many cyclists use their portable, which makes them obviously vulnerable, especially when they do not wear reflective vest … Vodafone takes the subject head on, and solves both problems!
April 15, at the TEDxDelft, Vodafone Netherlands will unveil its smart jacket to cyclists. Originally a simple observation … and rather universal: biking, we tend not to protect as necessary. Not to mention the traditional helmet on which the majority tends to overlook, it is here to address two other issues. The first is that cyclists regularly use their phones while pedaling. The second is that much at night are invisible fault to wear a safety vest or light to attach to their cars.
With its proposed “Smart Jacket” Vodafone attack both problems: in order not to be tempted to look at his phone, simply slip it into a safety jacket pocket once you have entered your route there. The jacket will take care of the store, and using an LED system, it will indicate directly to motorists what path you take, in addition to using GPS. Ingenious!

 

Fluorescent reflective jacket: Towards a 2nd class fine?

News – Published Friday, June 21, 2013 at 13:31 by James Vidal

The National Road Safety Council has just made its recommendation on the retro reflective vest motorcycle. Required (at least under the seat), do not wear it if need be fined in the amount of € 35.

Update 10 May 2015: The requirement will be for 1 January 2016.

The NSRF therefore comes to shell its recommendations to the Ministry of Interior. Not surprisingly, the new (not so new) one size number plates and the transport of a retro reflective vest the Optional Port will figure prominently.

It’s by the end of the year that the recommendations will or not transposed into a law, but the NSRF therefore formally proposed this morning that the obligation to have a retro-reflective vest be extended scooter riders and bikers.

“II. – The driver must be of a high visibility jacket with reflector when it is brought out of a stopped vehicle on the road or its surroundings after an emergency stop. Outstanding, the driver must have this jacket handy. ”

Warning if no penalty will be applicable in case of non-submission of this vest during a check, its non-use when necessary can be suppressed as for motorists, with a fine.

To date, this is a 4th class fine but the NSRF proposes to lower it to a second class. It is 35 € for any biker or not wearing retro reflective vest, because of an accident or emergency stop. We will monitor the implementation of these proposals in the coming months, as the reactions of the manufacturers, who had already had to get rid of stocks armband

4 mandatory retro-reflective stickers on the helmet (on pain of a fine of € 135) are there to ensure nighttime visibility of the rider when he is not on his motorcycle. Under such conditions, it is therefore surprising that wearing the vest with a reflective tape in case of an emergency stop should be extended to bikers. Unless it is considered bad mind to think that yellow vest, in the pipes for years, must be gently placed, no matter what the moaners and statistics.