Reflectors to mark night ride course.

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate the
course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they come
with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

http://www.seton.net.au/indexes/index_visual.cfm

Plain tape is fine & just keep an eye out on the side of the roads,
favorite piece of singletrack and you'll find lots of discarded
reflectors that will do the job for any areas that you feel need extra
warning.

Parbs

try some bike shops

lots of bikes come with white wheel reflectors instead on yellow ones

sometimes they have massive amounts of these laying around because they
arent legal to sell

where are you?
how many do you need??

D

ScanAustraliaPix said:

try some bike shops

lots of bikes come with white wheel reflectors instead on yellow ones

sometimes they have massive amounts of these laying around because they
arent legal to sell

where are you?
how many do you need??

D

Need about one every 100 metres so that's about 50 of them over a 5 km
course.

Parbs said:

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate
the course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they
come with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

http://www.seton.net.au/indexes/index_visual.cfm

Plain tape is fine & just keep an eye out on the side of the roads,
favorite piece of singletrack and you'll find lots of discarded
reflectors that will do the job for any areas that you feel need extra
warning.

Parbs

Did you check out the prices on those reflective products?

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate the
course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they come
with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

Do cheapo auto shops sell those ones they use on road posts?
3" and single screw mount?

ScanAustraliaPix said:

try some bike shops

yeah, we've got loads of reflectors lying around. I'd imagine most
other shops would too

What about using plain (or SR) flour to mark arrows, then you don't have to clean up afterwards?
Pete

Poiter said:

What about using plain (or SR) flour to mark arrows, then you don't have
to clean up afterwards?
Pete

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Poiter

When we do ultras, the courses are marked with pale coloured flagging in
trees, and dolomite powder on the trail.

Tam

Tamyka Bell said:

Poiter said:

What about using plain (or SR) flour to mark arrows, then you don't have
to clean up afterwards?
Pete

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Poiter

When we do ultras, the courses are marked with pale coloured flagging in
trees, and dolomite powder on the trail.

Well, that would be an interesting bicycle trailer to build; modify the
seed feeder for bicycle use instead of ute use {:-).

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Terry Collins said:

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate the
course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they come
with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

Do cheapo auto shops sell those ones they use on road posts?
3" and single screw mount?

Can you use reflective (Scotch) tape on plastic (disposable) dinner
plates? Then you can make arrows.
Do a google search for 'safety signs' and take your pick. You can even
get tape that is both reflective and luminous (but there are cheaper
solutions:
<http://www.seton.net.au/templates/visual_tape.cfm/hurl/StartRow=1/visual
_tape.cfm>
What about a bulk buy of cyalume sticks? Six hours might be stretching
it a bit but would be OK for a lot of the track.

Tamyka Bell said:

Poiter said:

What about using plain (or SR) flour to mark arrows, then you don't have
to clean up afterwards?
Pete

--
Poiter

When we do ultras, the courses are marked with pale coloured flagging in
trees, and dolomite powder on the trail.

Tam

Reflectors are much easier to spot at night. I've been using some fluro
colored tape but it's hard to spot at night. Dolomite is also hard to
pick at night, although I know the horse riders use it for their
endurance rides.

Terry Collins said:

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate the
course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they come
with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

Do cheapo auto shops sell those ones they use on road posts?
3" and single screw mount?

I haven't been able to find any, not cheap ones anyway. I hope to have
them about every 100 metres which works out quite expensive over a 5 to
8 km circuit.

darryl said:

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Terry Collins said:

Friday said:

I'm organising a 6 hour nightride enduro race for myself an a group of
friends and need to find some kind of reflective markers to indicate the
course at night time. Anyone know where I can get some? If they come
with arrows as well that would be a bonus.

Do cheapo auto shops sell those ones they use on road posts?
3" and single screw mount?

Can you use reflective (Scotch) tape on plastic (disposable) dinner
plates? Then you can make arrows.
Do a google search for 'safety signs' and take your pick. You can even
get tape that is both reflective and luminous (but there are cheaper
solutions:
<http://www.seton.net.au/templates/visual_tape.cfm/hurl/StartRow=1/visual
_tape.cfm>
What about a bulk buy of cyalume sticks? Six hours might be stretching
it a bit but would be OK for a lot of the track.

At about $20 a metre for reflective tape it's a bit steep. Did you check
the prices?

Friday said:

At about $20 a metre for reflective tape it's a bit steep. Did you check
the prices?

Yup, but with a pair if scissors that becomes about 50cents a reflector

Parbs

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Friday said:

At about $20 a metre for reflective tape it's a bit steep. Did you check
the prices?

Yup, but with a pair if scissors that becomes about 50cents a reflector

Try your local signmaking depot. By signmaking i mean the place that makes
road signs for councils and state govt. They have offcuts and you won't
'buy' any better for reflectivity....

On the enduros that I have done, they have just marked the course with some white tape. It shows up pretty well with even ordinary bike lights. They've also used flouro spray on obstacles such as low overhanging branches and rocks and that also shows up surprisingly well with bike lights.

These courses do get pretty worn in though so the track is pretty obvious for the most part and having ridden the course in the daylight first also helps.

Friday said:

At about $20 a metre for reflective tape it's a bit steep. Did you check
the prices?

Ooohh, and I was going to waste that great big roll by wrapping it in a
spiral around my POS MTB from 1984 {:-)

Anyway, thanks for the price tip off. I better start treating the roll
that was given as a present a little better.

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Parbs said:

Friday said:

At about $20 a metre for reflective tape it's a bit steep. Did you check
the prices?

Yup, but with a pair if scissors that becomes about 50cents a reflector

Parbs

Geez, you are right Parbs, it's hard to please. Certainly if it was me I
would be bloody happy to spend only that much but the prices I see on
that site for 25mm tape is $62.50 for 9 metres. That is $7 per metre.
(see high visibility safety tapes).

You can get custom stickers made at:
<http://www.hie.hl.com.au/new%2024hourstickers/Main%2024hourstickers.htm>
I suspect this solution would be more expensive but you could get
reflective arrows.

As always, happy to help,
Darryl

Friday said:

Terry Collins wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do cheapo auto shops sell those ones they use on road posts?
3" and single screw mount?

Quoted message said:

I haven't been able to find any, not cheap ones anyway. I hope to have
them about every 100 metres which works out quite expensive over a 5
to 8 km circuit.

They're easy to find. There's one every 100 metres along most highways.
Bring your own screwdriver.

Theo