REAR REFLECTORS FOR CYCLISTS

Shannon News, 6 June 1928, Page 1

REAR REFLECTORS FOR CYCLISTS

At a meeting of the Southland Moor Association (says “Chassis”) one if j the members spoke of the utter, use-, .essness of such reflectors, and he received support from other members. The Chairman said that the reflectirs were all right if they were fixed irqpcrly. To decide the question a demonstration was arranged. This Look place on a dark night in a dark rodd. A young.man, a son of one of the members, attended with a motor cycle, with three small pieces of wood in the rear and three standard red reflectors fastened to this wood. One was a triangle with aluminium edge, another had the white edging often seen, and the other was a plain red reflector. The reflectors were visible for a distance of 80 yards when arranged in a perfectly vertical position, but when the 1 board was tilted at a slight angle, as is often the case oh cycles, they were invisible at a distance of 25 feet. "This goes to prove that the reflectors must be placed on the cycles in an absolutely vertical position” (adds the' writer) . Several cyclists who were passing at the time of the demonstration -were very interested, and one of them said that it ought to be published in all papers, because cyclists thought' thpy were'all right with the reflectors on, without any attention being given to the position.