RSA High Vis Bag Cover

BenEadir

Hi all,

I encourage my son to be a safety concious cyclist so he always wears a helmet, obeys the rules of the road etc etc - or at least when I'm with him!!

These dark mornings he cycles to school with a high viz waistcoat over his school jacket but because his bag is so big it almost obscures the high viz jacket.

I've seen a lot of people with Road Safety Authority sponsored (or is it RSA Insurance?) high viz bag covers which do a great job but I can't see on the RSA website (either of them!!) where they can be ordered from.

Can someone here point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Ben

Deedsie

http://rsa.pmms.ie/ProductDetails.aspx?Option=Group&OptionParameter=HIVIS

You are dead right Ben. More cyclist's need to be safety aware. I cycle in Dublin daily, dunno how there are not more injuries/fatalities the way some people carry on.

AstraMonti

2 good lights are enough to make any cyclist visible. If you want to be extra cautious put one more on the back.

Rogue-Trooper

I have a spare RSA backpack cover sitting beside me on my desk here - courtesy of the Gardai road safety thingy last week.

PM me if you want it. Not sure where you are based but I'm on North Wall Quay if you wanted to pick it up.

Seweryn

AstraMonti wrote: »

2 good lights are enough to make any cyclist visible. If you want to be extra cautious put one more on the back.

+1 on that.

What lights does your Son use at the moment Ben? Make sure he gets a good set and carry a spare battery for the front + spare clone rear light in his bag.

The hi-visibility stuff is OK, but I would only put it on after I have my lights sorted first.

Seaswimmer

BenThere wrote: »

Hi all,

I encourage my son to be a safety concious cyclist so he always wears a helmet, obeys the rules of the road etc etc - or at least when I'm with him!!

These dark mornings he cycles to school with a high viz waistcoat over his school jacket but because his bag is so big it almost obscures the high viz jacket.

I've seen a lot of people with Road Safety Authority sponsored (or is it RSA Insurance?) high viz bag covers which do a great job but I can't see on the RSA website (either of them!!) where they can be ordered from.

Can someone here point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Ben

The amount of parents (not getting at you Ben) who provide their children with a helmet and hi vis and send them off thinking everything is ok is frightening. How many parents for example regularly,

1. Pump the tyres.
2. Check the brakes
3. Check the lights are installed and working.
4. Check everything is tight and nothing is missing
5. Discusses basic cycling safety (dont go on the left of that truck ect)
6. Check that anything extra they carry is secured properly and not likely to go into spokes/wheels.
7. Check that they actually wear the helmet as opposed to carry it on the bars where its far more likely to cause an accident..

All of the above are in my opinion far more important than helmet and hi vis wearing.

Alek

I have almost cycled into two young kids this morning, perhaps 10 and 13, in hi viz jackets, coming from around the corner from the opposite direction, on a cycle path, right at me. There is a wooden fencing on one side of the cycle path and traffic on the other, no option to manouver myself out of this should I be going any faster.

Right here:

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=53.370835,-6.253796&spn=0.064421,0.154324&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.37093,-6.253706&panoid=VQ5hBW65Jjm7VDyUU0QtkQ&cbp=12,343.66,,0,28.88

(the wooden fencing has been installed right at the curb and blocks the view after the slight bend)

Cookie_Monster

alkos wrote: »

I have almost cycled into two young kids this morning, perhaps 10 and 13, in hi viz jackets, coming from around the corner from the opposite direction, on a cycle path, right at me. There is a wooden fencing on one side of the cycle path and traffic on the other, no option to manouver myself out of this should I be going any faster.

Right here:

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=53.370835,-6.253796&spn=0.064421,0.154324&t=m&z=13&layer=c&cbll=53.37093,-6.253706&panoid=VQ5hBW65Jjm7VDyUU0QtkQ&cbp=12,343.66,,0,28.88

(the wooden fencing has been installed right at the curb and blocks the view after the slight bend)

what impact did the high vis have on the situation?

Killgore Trout

The RSA were giving them away for free if you like their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/RSAIreland/app_427691230652804

Discussed here previously:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056895791

Alek

what impact did the high vis have on the situation?

That's my point - probably none. No amount of lights or flashy clothes will help if you do something as fundamentally stupid as this.

Wishbone Ash

Seaswimmer wrote: »

The amount of parents (not getting at you Ben) who provide their children with a helmet and hi vis and send them off thinking everything is ok is frightening. How many parents for example regularly,

1. Pump the tyres.
2. Check the brakes
3. Check the lights are installed and working.
4. Check everything is tight and nothing is missing
5. Discusses basic cycling safety (dont go on the left of that truck ect)
6. Check that anything extra they carry is secured properly and not likely to go into spokes/wheels.
7. Check that they actually wear the helmet as opposed to carry it on the bars where its far more likely to cause an accident..

All of the above are in my opinion far more important than helmet and hi vis wearing.

You missed the biggest one - those parents who tell their children it's ok to cycle on the footpath!

BenEadir

Guy's,

OP here.

Thanks for the responses and the offer of a spare hi viz bag cover. I signed up to the website and ordered one so I should be sorted.

FYI I may not be an A+ parent in terms of pumping the tyres regularly etc but I do insist on the helmet being worn but have not done so in an imposing manner. Instead I regularly chat to my son about safety and accidents and how it can take one moment of stupidity to be killed (if you are lucky) or permanently disabled. It's tough when there is so much peer pressure to not wear helmets and high viz clothing etc in order to be 'cool' but its a battle that's worth fighting IMO.

Cheers all,

Ben