{"id":216529897,"date":"2011-11-12T03:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216529897"},"modified":"2011-11-12T03:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:11:37","slug":"making-your-bike-glow-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216529897","title":{"rendered":"Making your bike glow down the road&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By K&#8217;Tesh via Bike Forums<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m known locally for my bike&#8217;s reflective properties&#8230;  I take a bike that looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ufobike\/6149466416\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6149466416_57074a99ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">2011 Trek Montare (near stock condition)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and make it look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ufobike\/6149466726\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/6149466726_b946231279.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">2011 Trek Montare (Using Avery blue, white, and black reflective films)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nIf anybody&#8217;s looking to do it themselves, here&#8217;s a quick little primer on how to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First locate your reflective material.  For the large areas, I&#8217;ve been using Avery and 3M Scotchlight self-adhesive reflective films for years now, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multicraftplastics.com\/manufacturers\/oracal\/graphic_marking_films\/content\/oracal_series_5600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my supplier<\/a> is shifting to another product from Oracal.  It&#8217;s as good as the Avery product they say, and it&#8217;s cheaper (15&#8243; wide $14USD\/yd, 24&#8243; 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).  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showthread.php\/780829-Making-your-bike-glow-down-the-road...\">https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showthread.php\/780829-Making-your-bike-glow-down-the-road&#8230;<\/a>oldId.2011111203113758<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By K&#8217;Tesh via Bike Forums I&#8217;m known locally for my bike&#8217;s reflective properties&#8230; 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&#8217;s looking to do it themselves, here&#8217;s a quick little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=216529897\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making your bike glow down the road&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216529897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216529897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216529897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216529897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216529897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216529897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216529897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}