Safest motorbike colour

As a newbie, I am taking a lot of advice on board, but when asked what
colour bike I was going to to get I said Black.

This I was told was a dangerous colour and I should get a blue or a
red one as they are easier to see.

Is this correct as from behind you just see a black tyre, yellow
number plate and what ever top the rider has on regardless of the
colour of the bike. From the front you mainly see the headlight.

Thanks in advance for any help on this

 

You must be an experienced hardened biker to ride a black bike.

Red bikes are for seriously fast riders only.

Pink bikes are for girls or really hard, tough, macho men

Blue bikes are for beginners

Yellow bikes are for gay people.

Green bikes are for nutters.

HTH

 

<looks at collection>

So I ought to be a seriously fast, hardened experienced biker who's in
touch with his novice side and who used to be gay.

Hmm.

 

Don't even begin to think anyone will see you.
Assume they won't, then you'll occasionally get a nice surprise when
they do.

 

I was gay, but now I'm seriously[1] fast.

[1] Me?

 

For all practical purposes you are equally invisible on a bike of any
colour but in fact a touch more so on a blue one due to quantum effects
and red shift and stuff. It is the same effect that makes red bikes
faster apparently.

 

I just take solace from the fact that in a sense we are all beginners
for we all have much to learn.

 

You're as safe as you think you are. If a bright red bike makes you feel
safe, then get a red bike. If you feel safe with a black one, then get a
back one. If a car driver isn't looking then no amount of color is going
to make any difference.

I feel that a nice sounding exhaust and a good set of lights is more
whats needed.

 

Your safety as a motorcyclist depends more on your riding skills and
style than the colour of your kit.

Being seen from your side can also be important. You might be seen
sooner if you wear a white helmet.

 

Don't be daft, you've not got an orange bike have you?


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Try pink

 

FRO !

 

If you do much riding in Winter, then don't get a White one
Bg

 

Especially if he's on your shoulders arms outstretched..........

Mark

 

That would make me an experienced, hardened biking novice. Seems fair.

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Orange: Off-roaders who love their bike hand built by a drunken descendant
of an Austrian nazi.

<plans painting current bike red/white/black soon>

 

As others have said, they *really* won't see you.

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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
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<Yoda>
Learn we must paduan, to top side keep shiny and not down the street
throw it.
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I always figure to stay bottom of the class, that's what the birds go for.

 

Not *that* gay.

I have:

Red Tuono
Red and White R1 (what doies this say?)
Black Guzzi
Blue YZ250 (I suppose the novice tag is appropriate for this one as
I'm pretty shit off-road)

and I recently sold a yellow TLR.

 

No, no, no - that is completely wrong. Red shift doesn't make the bike
faster, it's just that the colour gets there before the bike. This is why
car drivers hit red bikes more often. They think the bike has passed and
pull out and ...