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How I came to acquire this stash of reflective material (self-adhesive 3M-type stuff) was by contacting a shop that does signs (like highway exit signs, marking guardrails, etc.) and asked if they had any scraps they’d otherwise be tossing out. They said to come by and I got several 8×10 sized pieces for FREE!

I started cutting the pieces to fit various parts of the bike – starting with items like fenders, and eventually working to the frame, fork, rear rack, and wheels.

Since then I’ve been experimenting with making wheel (spoke) reflectors using the bottoms of microwave pasta dishes as backing material. There’s one pic of a drop-bar old 10-speed I installed one of these experimental wheel reflectors on – it’s on the rear wheel, zip-tied to the spokes.

Thanks for the idea Lexica. My wife and I are both bicyclists (see link below). Our daily morning ride of 20 miles begins around 5:30 a.m. along the ocean. This is fine during the summer months when the sun rises early and there is little traffic, but as the sun rises later in the Fall and Winter months, it becomes extremely dangerous to ride in the daylight hours so we are forced to ride in the dark for approx. 1/2 hour before the Sun starts to rise up out of the ocean. We use front and rear lights, but they really aren't enough to alert drivers of our presence. This reflective tape idea sounds great and we're definitely going to use it. Thanks again for the clip.

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