You don't like being told what to wear but you do want to tell me what to wear

Things like denying that flourescents are almost always conspicuous and making assumptions about people just sounds a bit dim.
A bit like denying that dog shit exists because you don't want to wear shoes. Point, laugh get your mates to join in, call people names - but most of all hope that the guy with the shoes is the one who comes across the dogshit and not you.

If you don't want to wear it, don't wear it, if you are worried about not looking tough thats fine, nobody is holding it against you. If you want to insult me and tell me what to wear, that is something else and some sort of conflict is inevitable.

By the way, choosing vanity over safety is going to push legislation on bikes, hi-vis et al. If people already do it there is no point in legislating it. You are accelerating it, not I.

I wouldnt wear a flourescent bib but i wouldnt slag others off for doing so, everyone has different tastes, but i think this topic has been started just to cause trouble so sad.

Chris

horobags wrote:A question for you tarquin , what exactly do you mean when you call someone a "knobber", are you calling someone a knobhead or a knob , just because of what he decides to wear when riding, even though youv' never met him , or know what kind of person he is?? If I'm jumping the gun, then I apologise up front, but if you are calling them a knob, then I think for you to come on a forum like this and slag people off who you dont even know, or have met, then you are the DICK.

Substitute HERBERT for Knobber if you prefer.

Although not all HERBERTS may actually be called Herbert,of course.

In a similar fashion (or lack of,come to think of it) the aforementioned Dayglo Knobbers may not actually be knobheads or knobs per se.....how indeed could anyone know without prior meetings.....and unlike some of the personal insults thrown my way (which bother me not one jot) I`ve not called anyone a knob/knobber/knobhead personally.
But those cladding themselves in Please Don`t Knock Me Down Dayglo do indeed look knobbers....ipso facto and full stop.

Tarka wrote:But those cladding themselves in Please Don`t Knock Me Down Dayglo do indeed look knobbers

So does what you wear say please DO knock me down?
(we can only hope it does)

Was there a point to this thread?

yes, it provides some cheesy reading on a lazy bank holiday weekend. Surely better than the dying threads with one-two responses that we get in here these recent months, regardless of how pointless the whole thread has been

I must be one of these knobbers then as I wear a high-viz lightweight jacket with excellent white reflective banding over my armoured gear when I do motorway riding (mostly filtering as it's the M25), it's dark, wet, dusk. Oh yer, I see plenty of guys on motorbikes stealth riding relying on their front light(s) to be seen, but for me if a motorist has a micro second to avoid a collision when he's changing lanes I think it's a no-brainer there's more chance of him even glimpsing me. I also love to ride without the high-viz stuff when it's nice and dry and feel sort of liberted and 'cool' when I do but as long as this crap weather is with us I'll keep wearing the glowing stuff and don't care what names I get called, water off a high-viz jackets back matey.

having seen the pictures remined me of our rides with the central scooter club

we used to have the irst and last person wearing orange hi=viz and the rest in yella ones so we could see when we all went passed

If the uninformed starter of this post would care to do a little research on the wearing of high-viz clothing he would soon find out why those of us that care for our lives over our vanity wear such clothing. For the same reason that all major companies insist that their workers wear it while outside/working. YOU ARE EASIER TO SEE.
I am a professional driver and can assure Tarka that his headlights do not make him stand out when I look either way before pulling out, and even if I do see him, todays twin bike headlights just make you look like a car but in the distance.
Personally, having lost a fiancée in a bike accident, I will do the best I can to improve my chances of being seen and if that makes me look stupid then so be it, rather that than road kill.

Bob

good post Bob, I think youv;e just about summed up why we wear whatever we wear for our own personal reasons, but some KNOBBERS are too narrow minded to understand this.