Recommend me a good hi-viz vest / overjacket

[Rev-O]

Hi All

Looking to get a good hi-viz vest to go over my riding jacket.

Can anyone recommend me a good one? Ideally with reflective areas, adjustable sides, maybe pockets?

Thanks

Ollie

[MCN]

Good Obs is a very useful item.

Be careful you do not fall into any Big Government traps.
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[dydey90]

Can you please outline the reasons for purchasing such an item?
Let's not give the gubberment more reasons to make them mandatory.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Hi-vis is for moral fags that and half the population is wearing it.

[Triton Thrasher]

If it ain't got "Polite" written on the back, it ain't shit.
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[recman]

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[Snop Doog]

Would you like something like this?

https://www.morebikes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Polite-hi-viz.jpg

[Rogerborg]

Hang in there, you will get a sensible answer once the sugar rush wears off and the children go to bed.
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[Kaya75]

Hey,

Just get a cheap one with a zip if you are not a fan of neon flaps.. fiver of the neon shore on the local market, three quid without the zip..

I carry mine in me rucksack, for when I run out of petrol on the A13 (so I get through a few..) but you could wear it riding too, I guess.. dark winter shite mornings it helps and if it's peeing down I'll stick the waterproof fleece lined one one (£14 quid for same stall). It's hard to look "cool" at 5:45am on a wet windy January morning so I'll look like warm, dry, neon balloon instead.

I'm thinking of bringing my own brand out actually, with the slogan "FCUK Polite" "don't THINK so" or "See me now?).. Only kidding really, I'm neon and proud when the situation requiers, but my balls shrink just a little and nothing really changes, still invisible unless you are doing 40 in the slow lane of Mway in spray from hell in the dark.. I'm glad I can pull over and bib up, im not bothered if I advertise to the world i got my ball shrinking bib on, cuz they can help, like mobile phones they are good sometimes, but they can actually be left at home too..

[scruti]

Before wearing a hit-air high vis airbag vest I was riding with an Icon one. I really liked it. Much better fit for high speed than the airbag one.
I used for rain/night and was perfect.

And you can adjust it in vest lateralls:
https://images0.revzilla.com/product_images/0013/5841/Icon_Mil-Spec_Mesh_Vest_Yellow_zoom.jpg

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[recman]

Looks like a girdle.
Might get one.

[Cadbury]

Saw this the other day: the Macna concrete nighteye.

https://www.motogen.pl/gfx/motogen2/_thumbs/pl/defaultaktualnosci/52/8503/1/macna_concrete.jpg

The whole jacket is made of reflective material.

[Rogerborg]

[Andy_Pagin]

Get a cheap builders hi-viz from somewhere like Direct Boot. Cagers will ignore it just as much as an expensive one.
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[Mudshark]

remember not to obscure it for people who are in front of you by

leaning forward to reach the bars
having a screen or faring
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[MCN]

Hi-Viz doesn't even work on the building sites where is belongs.

The issue for bikers on the road the contemptuous attitude of car, van, turck, taxi-bastirt drivers.

Even if they see you they'll still pull out.

Better observation and roadcraft will be cheaper, more effective and not need a special/delicates cold temperature wash to maintain.
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[Kaya75]

[-Matt-]

Rarely use it unless its really foggy or i'm riding at night but i've got one of these.

Can keep a card in the chest pocket for getting petrol etc. Be warned though - it does cost a whole £1 more than the velcro ones ... but my old velcro one started blowing open after a while so i'd say blow the bank and get a zip one.

Apply battenburg and polite decals as required; depending on how ridiculous you want to look .

[Chuffin Nora]

Well, I reckon that not so far ahead Hi-Viz will be a thing of the passed, anyway.

Bound to become an industry standard, Honda, as I'm sure you're aware, is now producing cars that have gizmos installed to make the driver aware of certain facts concerning their (lack of) spatial awareness.
For example, that right in front of their nose are two-foot+ road signs everywhere that are, apparently, not at all visible to your average Daily Mail Dyslexic who can't actually read the fucking road.
So it takes no great stretch of imagination to envisage the same sort of heads-up, both audible and visual, to the presence in their vicinity of two-wheelers, surely.

The audible perhaps something along the lines of

"OI, YER CRETINOUS FUCKTARD --- WATCH OUT --- THERE'S A MOTORCYCLIST YONDER. (YES, YOUR HAIR LOOKS FINE, NOW CONCENTRATE.")



Worth reflecting on, at least?
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[highland biker]

i bought a cheap xxl one off amazon for about £5 and throw it on if its a properly miserable day (i.e monday in winter) or for fog n shit.

basically i keep it under my pillion seat for just in case (after 3 brutal SMIDSYs i am somewhat apprehensive around other road users)
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[grr666]

When I feel the need I wear this.

https://shared1.ad-lister.co.uk/UserImages/5a2ee558-76e4-40ca-88a8-3ec1209c8a9a/Img/winter/safety-jkt-front-logo.JPG?112


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RST-Fluorescent-Safety-Jacket-Reflective-Hi-Viz-Vest-High-Visibility-Motorcycle-/131035604387?var=&hash=item1e8254a5a3
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[Ben90]

I have one of the RST ones too. The amount of times I've worn it I can count on my thumbs, but it has stretch panels on the side so it doesn't flap around in the wind.
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[Fladdem]

I wear one every now and then, usually an orange one my dad stole from his work, I prefer orange because it's a bit different to the usual yellow

There's never any rhyme or reason behind me wearing a hi-vis. Sometimes, I'll bung it on, go green laning and then it's just plastered in mud and was completely pointless, I do wear it when green laning so the rambliars think I'm a more responsible rider. Other times, it will be shite visibility and I'll just bung my completely black leather jacket on and go. Sometimes I'll wear hi-vis then put a rucksack on, rendering it useless.

My motorbike jackets are XL, so I went for XXL with the hi-vis, so it sits properly without pinching on shoulders, it flaps a bit but I don't care at all, I don't notice it, much like everyone else.
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