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nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:04 pm
by Bill
Hi Folks,
I looked around the web to try and find a "helmet color" comparison
for best visibility to drivers, and did not find much. So I edited
some images by putting 6 different "colors of helmets" over the riders
helmet area in identical images - to compare them.
The colors are: white, silver, yellow, black, red and blue.
Here's a link to the file with the 6 colored superimposed "helmets" in
different riding scenarios.
http://www.ithelponcall.com/helmet-color.pdf
I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really blends
in in to the different settings!
Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
real helmet color studies would be welcome!
Thanks for the great list,
Bill
nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:58 am
by LDHunter
I think that yellow stands out very well but Kawasaki green is a close
second and is much more pleasing to the eye.
My KLX250S is Kawi green and people actually SEE IT! I also wear a Kawi
Green jacket and they see that too.
IMO flat black is the worst of all colors for visibility and although it's
very popular lately I wouldn't get caught dead in it...
$bob$
I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really blends
in in to the different settings!
Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
real helmet color studies would be welcome!
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nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:36 am
by Jim Douglas
LDHunter wrote:
>
> I think that yellow stands out very well but Kawasaki green is a close
> second and is much more pleasing to the eye.
>
> My KLX250S is Kawi green and people actually SEE IT! I also wear a Kawi
> Green jacket and they see that too.
>
> IMO flat black is the worst of all colors for visibility and although it's
> very popular lately I wouldn't get caught dead in it...
>
> $bob$
>
> I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really blends
> in in to the different settings!
>
> Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> real helmet color studies would be welcome!
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
My jacket was BRIGHT YELLOW, as the size of the helmet is too small
to be seen by anyone no matter what color it it! I did had some stickers
to my helmet that were bright yellow. BTW, I have studied human interface
design in regards to computers which also flows over into advertising and
general color schemes for marketing! BIG and YELLLOW! Now RED
is also a color that quite a few folks pick up on also,but a RED bike does
not cut it as it blends in with the surroundings!
Best, bright yellow jacket and yellow pants, if you cold find them, you
may look gay in the outfit but you might have a better chance being
seen. Hate to say this but noise also affects, we always know there
is a Harley asshole with open pipe somewhere near ya!
nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:52 am
by dooden
Reflective Tape helps..
Years (many) ago, after I completed a MSF course I was given a
completion decal, it was reflective and triangle shaped, put it on my
helmet and never thought about it, I was young. The other day
driving through construction (its everywhere in Chicago) and my
headlights light up a moving reflector ahead of me to my left.. look
that way and couple lanes over up front is a bike, helmet on even
with the same decal, now remember this is a morning commute bumper to
bumper basically like a TrashCar race on these tollways. What caught
my attention.. yup that reflector.
Did that to my truck, kinda redneck style, but I drive alot on remote
highways through Wisconson and Upper Michigan, normally late at night
getting somewhere, and got tired of idiots and bright lights behind
me, so I noted a semi-trailer with reflectors, ding ding ding Idea...
put a strip of good scotch 2" tape up the sides and across the top of
the cab back window. Basically pointing backwards, so when they come
up on me with brights, at least I am am giving them a hint they are
on.
Have a Roll of the super reflective stuff now debating running it
across the bumper and tailgate also.
Laws of Gross Tonnage are always in effect !! on a bike be seen or be
carried away.
Dooden
a15 Green Ape
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, LDHunter wrote:
>
> I think that yellow stands out very well but Kawasaki green is a
close
> second and is much more pleasing to the eye.
>
>
>
> My KLX250S is Kawi green and people actually SEE IT! I also wear a
Kawi
> Green jacket and they see that too.
>
>
>
> IMO flat black is the worst of all colors for visibility and
although it's
> very popular lately I wouldn't get caught dead in it...
>
>
>
> $bob$
>
>
>
> I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really
blends
> in in to the different settings!
>
> Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> real helmet color studies would be welcome!
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:23 am
by roncriswell@sbcglobal.net
Ahh hell .... the more visible you are, the more you are a target.
Sometimes I think they are out to get us intentionally ..... or just
don't care. My wife was riding in a car with the crotchety old owner
(85 years old) of the company she works for when he almost hit a bike
rider. My wife asked if he saw him? Yes he replied, "I see the little
bastard."
Watch your back your front and your sides and don't ride at night. A
sport bike rider was killed not 3 miles from my house on the freeway
Monday riding at 1:30 AM. He hit a car with its lights off left in
the middle of the freeway by a drunk. Yes he was wearing a helmet.
Criswell
On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Jim Douglas wrote:
> LDHunter wrote:
> >
> > I think that yellow stands out very well but Kawasaki green is a
> close
> > second and is much more pleasing to the eye.
> >
> > My KLX250S is Kawi green and people actually SEE IT! I also wear
> a Kawi
> > Green jacket and they see that too.
> >
> > IMO flat black is the worst of all colors for visibility and
> although it's
> > very popular lately I wouldn't get caught dead in it... intended>
> >
> > $bob$
> >
> > I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really
> blends
> > in in to the different settings!
> >
> > Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> > real helmet color studies would be welcome!
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> My jacket was BRIGHT YELLOW, as the size of the helmet is too small
> to be seen by anyone no matter what color it it! I did had some
> stickers
> to my helmet that were bright yellow. BTW, I have studied human
> interface
> design in regards to computers which also flows over into
> advertising and
> general color schemes for marketing! BIG and YELLLOW! Now RED
> is also a color that quite a few folks pick up on also,but a RED
> bike does
> not cut it as it blends in with the surroundings!
>
> Best, bright yellow jacket and yellow pants, if you cold find them,
> you
> may look gay in the outfit but you might have a better chance being
> seen. Hate to say this but noise also affects, we always know there
> is a Harley asshole with open pipe somewhere near ya!
>
>
>
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nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:27 am
by Lou
I wear either (1) a commercial-grade reflective vest such as road
crews wear or (2) anything that is hunter-orange. I suppose I might
look silly, but I look silly to people while they are still a couple
hundred yards away from me. Hunter-orange clothing is easy to find
at this time of year, too
At 07:52 AM 10/17/2008, Dooden wrote:
>Reflective Tape helps..
nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:16 am
by mikeypep
I picked this up in a bicycle magazine. Good old white is tops. You
gotta believe that safety yellow would be up there too. Silver just
plain blends. I have strips of reflective safety tape, in a diamond
pattern, on my helmet.
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I looked around the web to try and find a "helmet color" comparison
> for best visibility to drivers, and did not find much. So I edited
> some images by putting 6 different "colors of helmets" over the
riders
> helmet area in identical images - to compare them.
>
> The colors are: white, silver, yellow, black, red and blue.
> Here's a link to the file with the 6 colored superimposed "helmets"
in
> different riding scenarios.
>
>
http://www.ithelponcall.com/helmet-color.pdf
>
> I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really
blends
> in in to the different settings!
>
> Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> real helmet color studies would be welcome!
>
> Thanks for the great list,
>
> Bill
>
nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:38 am
by Chris Norloff
That's fun! Thanks. Yellow is a good color, day or night. International
Orange might be even better (the color used for liferafts, etc.).
The yellow/green color popular now is also good day or night. Red is bright
during the day, but dark at night as the rods in our eyes don't see that
wavelength well.
best,
Chris
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Subject: [DSN_KLR650] NKLR Helmet color visibility: six side by side color
comparisons
Hi Folks,
I looked around the web to try and find a "helmet color" comparison for best
visibility to drivers, and did not find much. So I edited some images by
putting 6 different "colors of helmets" over the riders helmet area in
identical images - to compare them.
The colors are: white, silver, yellow, black, red and blue.
Here's a link to the file with the 6 colored superimposed "helmets" in
different riding scenarios.
http://www.ithelponcall.com/helmet-color.pdf
I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really blends in in
to the different settings!
Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to real
helmet color studies would be welcome!
Thanks for the great list,
Bill
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nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:08 am
by Kevin Powers
Check out
http://www.highviz.org/ for a lot of information about motorcycle
visibility. The reflective stickers they have handed out are the bomb! I
put strips of it along the edges of the luggage rack on the KLR, and my son
made a checkerboard stripe across his helmet with one inch squares of the
stuff. I'm working on designs for my helmets and bikes.
--
Kevin Powers
White Bear Lake, MN
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bill wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I looked around the web to try and find a "helmet color" comparison
> for best visibility to drivers, and did not find much. So I edited
> some images by putting 6 different "colors of helmets" over the riders
> helmet area in identical images - to compare them.
>
> The colors are: white, silver, yellow, black, red and blue.
> Here's a link to the file with the 6 colored superimposed "helmets" in
> different riding scenarios.
>
>
http://www.ithelponcall.com/helmet-color.pdf
>
> I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really blends
> in in to the different settings!
>
> Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> real helmet color studies would be welcome!
>
> Thanks for the great list,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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nklr helmet color visibility: six side by side color comparisons
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:55 am
by Gmail
Wait till you see the new Scorpion EXO-700 neon yellow helmet
Best visibility color on a production helmet IMO
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:38 AM, "Chris Norloff" wrote:
> That's fun! Thanks. Yellow is a good color, day or night.
> International
> Orange might be even better (the color used for liferafts, etc.).
>
> The yellow/green color popular now is also good day or night. Red is
> bright
> during the day, but dark at night as the rods in our eyes don't see
> that
> wavelength well.
>
> best,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Bill
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:05 PM
> To:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [DSN_KLR650] NKLR Helmet color visibility: six side by side
> color
> comparisons
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I looked around the web to try and find a "helmet color" comparison
> for best
> visibility to drivers, and did not find much. So I edited some
> images by
> putting 6 different "colors of helmets" over the riders helmet area in
> identical images - to compare them.
>
> The colors are: white, silver, yellow, black, red and blue.
> Here's a link to the file with the 6 colored superimposed "helmets" in
> different riding scenarios.
>
>
http://www.ithelponcall.com/helmet-color.pdf
>
> I think yellow shows up the strongest to me. The silver really
> blends in in
> to the different settings!
>
> Any advice on helmet visibility and accident rates, or any links to
> real
> helmet color studies would be welcome!
>
> Thanks for the great list,
>
> Bill
>
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