[Closed] Red "Hi Vis" cycling tops....

The cheap orange Karrimor ones from Sports Direct are - haven't seen any red ones I'd count as hiz-vis though. Look at what workmen wear - yellow, orange occasionally lime green or pink - all the colours of the fluorescent highlighter pen range.

Probably not. I asked a similar question of my teenage son (who knows everything) when first I saw a pink hi-vis, his answer was a grunt. Logically pink = womans, men notice womans, ergo pink = womans not being run over by men. Incredibly sexist.

As for red, I don't see that. Although I've just bought a red waterproof in preference to a yellow hi-viz one. I wish someone would invent a hi-viz black.

I'm looking at the Altura Night Vision Jersery's, which are red or flourescent yellow. Red's a bit more acceptable for the trails but...?

Red tends to be hard to spot in the dark.

Off topic - Some research was done in the 1970's to show that the optimum colour for fire engines was yellow as at night red is almost as dark as black. Only a few brigades actually switched to yellow despite the evidence to support the change and all eventually went back to red (with the exception of Birmingham Airport Fire Service)

I wish someone would invent a hi-viz black

[url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/respro-hi-viz-black-diamond-sticker-sheet/ ]Hi-Viz Black[/url]

Hi-Viz Black

Not very Hi-Viz in daylight ...... but has its uses at night!

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At night it's the retroreflectives that do the heavy lifting rather than the vest material... Trouble is a lot of alleged hi-viz uses crap reflectives rather than modern stuff, and the difference is just ridiculous. Anyone selling visibility kit that doesn't have something at least as good as the 3M reflectives should dragged out and shot.

Orange and yellow are what you want for daylight, which is better depends on what your backdrop is but there are vests available that use both, that's what I use (my brother "obtained" some railway ones).