Polite?

[Nobby the Bastard]

To the person who nodded to me on the London Road in Bath this morning, the reason I shook my head sadly at you was because you were wearing a wanker-vest (tm).

Do it again and you'll get the international sign of the nescafe drinker waved in your direction.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

Bit harsh Nobby. Non?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Ste]

You fucking piece of shit troll.

[owl]

well done sir
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[choogh]

Is it the jacket, or the word that upsets you Nobby?
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[Eddie Hitler]

Awww, c'mon he just wanted to be nice. <3.

[Freddyfruitba...]

Love how my advert panel at the bottom of the screen is now filled with Polite wanker-vests
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[turningCircle]

I agree that the 'POLITE' vests shouldn't be allowed as they are misleading but I don't have problem with hi-vis. I'd rather be an living wanker than a dead dude.

[bamt]

I don't think polite vests should be banned. They are a very useful advance indication of the likely riding style of person wearing them.

[pompousporcup...]

[Exile71]

To be fair if a car driver cant see a motorbike with a light on and a person sitting on it, they arent suddenly going to see you if your wearing yellow.

I did also read in MCN a couple of years ago that statistically more people wearing vests have accidents than those not. You can read in between the lines and say that more people wear them possibly so this is the reason more are involved in accidents, or you could look at it with the view that those wearing them get a false sense that they will be seen so dont actually concentrate as hard as they should be.

However i also hate those vests, see loads of them in London!

[choogh]

Quote"However i also hate those vests, see loads of them in London!"

How can you hate a vest !???

It's ridicules,..... like loathing a match stick..😂😂😂😂
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[Baffler186]

[Rogerborg]

[angryjonny]

I was chatting to a guy in a bike shop who was describing a customer of his who had hi-viz all over himself and his bike. Claimed this guy was his best customer as he was always crashing and coming in to have his bike fixed. Apparently it's not how you look it's how you ride.

Anecdotes are, of course, widely recognised as proof by statisticians. I'd argue the same rider in the same conditions riding in the same way has less change of being potatoed in hi-viz than in matt black and camo gear.

[AshWebster]

understand wearing high-vis,

don't understand why its made to look like police - if I went out and stuck a fucking massive polite sticker and fake sirens on my white Astra I think I would get pulled!
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[colink98]

[Exile71]

Well..... Firstly im not in court so wont go to the bother of providing actual evidence. I read it, doesnt matter to me if you didnt.

However, How much of a rider can you actually see in your wing mirror? The point in saying that a vest is going to make you noticed more than the bikes headlight which will most likely be at eye level for drivers mirrors when most of your body would be hidden by the bike is ridiculous. A hi-vis vest may have stopped a couple of accidents, but i doubt many. More lives would probably be saved if elderly people on medication didnt decide to drive when they shouldnt.

[Alpineandy]

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[madcow87]

I'm only learning for now, but I know i'll wear hi-viz on the mile and half ride to work, especially in winter and getting to work at 5:45 in the morning.

But these things annoy me a little. Like ColinK said if you did it to an Astra van or whatever you'd probably get pulled, people get pulled for impersonating police officers and thrown in jail, then these things come along and it appears to me that a lot of the guys wearing them think themselves a level above everyone else when it comes to safety and being a good rider (don't get me wrong this is only going of people I've met).

At the same time, maybe the design made to look a little like a police vest because drivers typically start behaving when the police are around.
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