REFLECTORS FOR BIKES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 18

REFLECTORS FOR BIKES

vThe South Island Motor Union recently wrote to the Minister of Jusitice '(the Hon. F. J. Rolleston) urging .that with a view to minimising the •danger of motorists running down cyclists at night it should be compulsory for all cycles to be equipped with red reflectors, and the Minister in reply has pointed out that there may be some bicycles .(particularly boys' and girls' machines) which are ÜBed only diiring the daytime, and it would hardly be. fair \to compel = these machines to have the reflectors affixed. The Minis-: ter, however, haa noted the point for consideration .when the Lights, onVehicles .Act comes, up for amendment.! V By way of comment >it need only be said the argument that there are bicycles which are not used at night might with equal justice be applied to motor-cars and other road vehicles. With regard to the car, regulations have been brought into effect with which every. motor ' owner must comply, no matter" what the circumstances. Any bicycle is, liable to be used at night, and reflectors on bicycles are essential at night. The reflector on a motor-car is not essential, yet it mustbe affixed. The cost of equipping a bicycle' with a red reflector is a mere bagatelle, and should receive not a moment's consideration in connection with the .question of safety. Bicycle reflectors are already compulsory in Wellington and other places.