Making your bike glow down the road...

By K'Tesh via Bike Forums

I'm known locally for my bike's reflective properties... I take a bike that looks like this:


2011 Trek Montare (near stock condition)

and make it look like this:


2011 Trek Montare (Using Avery blue, white, and black reflective films)


If anybody's looking to do it themselves, here's a quick little primer on how to do it...

First locate your reflective material. For the large areas, I've been using Avery and 3M Scotchlight self-adhesive reflective films for years now, but my supplier is shifting to another product from Oracal. It's as good as the Avery product they say, and it's cheaper (15" wide $14USD/yd, 24" wide $24USD/yd(ish)). It comes in a number of colors, and has a 1yd/color minimum purchase (3 colors = 3 yards = lots of coverage).

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