You might have noticed I now sport a noticeable flag on the back of my trike. I bought it from Purple Sky Flags. It is, as you can see a very bright yellow and has a neon green streamer. The silver circles you see are very reflective material. In the second picture you can see the amount of reflectiveness, that was a picture in the shade at about 8:30am and the flash illuminated it nicely. They have many colors, three sizes, and circles or stripes that you can customize with. I chose yellow and green to make me as obvious as possible.
I now feel like I might be a little safer venturing on to streets when I need to. With this and lights that I have added, even poorly lit streets are going to get used on summer nights when the daytime heat makes riding impossible. The construction of the flags is the highest quality, I can't say enough good things about that. Its fabric, not plastic and doesn't make much noise at my below 15 mph speeds that I have noticed. There are a couple of other flag choices out there, but this one looked like the best to me. I intend to have the most obnoxiously lit trike I can have for night riding, I'm still working on that and will let you know more soon. I'm still testing the rear light and some others that I will be mentioning as soon as I can. Teracycle still hasn’t' shipped the mount I ordered for the headlights. I want to have decent pictures to go along with all the things I mention I've tried out to give as clear an explanation as possible. In the meantime here is the video from Purple Sky's site:
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