Wrap your bike in Reflective cloth

Using 3m Scotchlite fabric and spray adhesive you can wrap the frame tubing of your bike. You'll have the ultimate nightrider.

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Step 1: Get your stuff

You'll need

-spray adhesive
-scissors
-tape measure (cloth sewing tape measure is ideal)
-pencil
-rubbing alcohol
-finishing tape
-reflective fabric (this needs to be wide. i used 4" wide fabric which wraps around a 1 1/8" diameter tube with a nice overlap. It didn't quite make it on the downtube which is fatter. There's a little gap on the underside. I ordered the fabric from identi-tape.com but i'm sure there's other places to get it.
-a bike (older steel bikes are ideal, no fat tubes or funny shapes)

gracesalve says: Jul 27, 2012. 4:31 PM

GREAT!!!! simple but makes our great outdoor more safe.

Ricardo Furioso says: Jul 10, 2011. 12:58 PM

Fine work.
And a great idea, especially for kids' bikes.
And safe.
And simple.
Thank you.
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SurferGeek says: Nov 21, 2008. 7:45 PM

Nice... but couldn't you just use 3M reflective tape?
http://www.identi-tape.com/solas.html

stupidplus (author) in reply to SurferGeekDec 3, 2008. 2:59 PM

My experience with large areas of reflective tape is that's it's difficult to not get wrinkles or air bubbles. The tape just wants to stick to anything it touches. The Fabric that i used is easier to work with and hopefully will come off in one piece leaving just some adhesive to remove. You don't even want to try to remove reflective tape after it's been on a bike. it's not fun

aphrael says: Nov 21, 2008. 4:20 PM

Wow that's pretty nice! How is this holding up under the weather though? My bike is always outside and it's very rainy and cold now, so I'm wondering if this will make the cloth come loose. Any thoughts on that?

stupidplus (author) in reply to aphraelDec 3, 2008. 2:56 PM

it's holding up well. this bike lives outside and gets rained and snowed upon. No problems yet. The overlapping edge may want to start coming up if you don't use enough adhesive though