'Polite' vests

[bhinso]

Cool stories, bros.

[EazyDuz]

In the car I overtake them then blast them with screenwash for imitating police officers.
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[Sister Sledge]

From that description I thought you were still high.

If it's any help: J&S at Gateshead sell the things. One day I simply pointed at the rack of them and the staff began 'hurr hurring' because it seems that everyone visiting the shop hates them!
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[ThunderGuts]

Yeah spotted them in J&S Northwich and did similar; pointed and laughed.

I'll wear hi-viz vest when riding the motorways in winter, particularly at night, but the idea of one that makes you look like a copper.
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[MarJay]

[Polarbear]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I think I'd rather discover that my vasectomy was a failure and have to go through the whole bollock-tampering experience again than debase myself by wearing a wanker-vest (tm)
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[bhinso]

How come the hi viz is £39.99 but the vest only £2.90?

Bargin

[Ste]

If you have a look at them then you'll discover why.

[RS65]

I don't have one, I won't have one, but I couldn't care less if someone else wants to wear one. I don't get wound up by what other people wear, how they look, or what bike they ride. There are better things for me to focus my mind on.

[MarJay]

[kingmunky]

The other day I saw a rider with black/white squares on the side of their white helmet (a la police fashion), but the words were "Piss Off" instead of Police.

Still lump them with the POLITE vest crew, but it gave me a wee chuckle.
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[talkToTheHat]

Polite vests are a good indication of a particular kind of wanker living out a fantasy and are best avoided. They serve this purpose well.

If only car drivers had the same freedom to mark their vehicle to denote them as a police fantasist. At least a lone rider is unlikely to attempt a vehiclejacking.
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[RS65]

Wow thanks for that opinion!! Don't you think it's the height of hubris to think it's OK to try to impersonate a police officer?[/quote]

No I don't think they are impersonating a police officer by simply wearing a polite vest. However if other suggestive clothing, helmet, bike markings etc were present, then this would be different.
I also don't think a horserider on a country lane wearing a polite vest, is impersonating a police officer, but if makes drivers, riders and cyclists pass more carefully then that is a good thing.

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[Bubbs]

I fecking hate them... I have a panic reaction to brake heavily when I see police, even though i'm 100% always going the speed limit. I think they're dangerous, and when I realise it's a Polite vest I always think "Fucking Bellend!"
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[MarJay]

[Polarbear]

[RS65]

Unfortunately I do not who came up with the idea for polite vests, or the reasoning behind it so cannot answer your question. Did see commuting cyclists with them in late 2000's so they have been on the go some time. Never wanted one and still don't, but each to their own.

[MarJay]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Like I said on another thread, it was funny when we started wearing hi viz with polite back in the nineties, but we were at raves and were wearing pig snouts as well.

There's no good reason why they have that configuration of letters and blue squares other than trying to replicate police gear.
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[bhinso]

POLITE
Notice:

YFPOS.

[MarJay]