Getting to where the sidewalk ends
Showing posts with label Purple Sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple Sky. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Visible changes

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: