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cptrayes

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When is someone going to market a flourescent yellow vented riding hat!?
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Please will a manufacturer make a road safe summer (vented) riding hat so I can stop having to spray paint mine yellow. With all the emphasis on road safety now I'm baffled why this hasn't already been marketed.

I hope a marketeer from a hat manufacturer is reading this - there's a market out there - go for it!
 
You should patent this idea and quickly!

I have a GPA hat and have also thought having it in a flo yellow with reflectors would be fantastic.

Patent it and go to a hat manufacturer.
 
Many riders can only afford one hat & it is unlikely they would chose a hi viz. Let's face it many won't even splash out £2-£3 for a hi viz vest let alone the amount required to buy a hi viz hat. You can always buy a hi viz hat cover for a few pounds..... a lot cheaper than buying a new hat
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A nice thought though.
 
The point is that I want a summer hat with vents in. A cover ruins the ventilation. I'll bet I'm far from alone, and not everyone competes you know, so they don't need a standard colour hat. The fact that you can buy purple, pale blue, pink, white and various other colours shows that there is a market for coloured non-competition hats. We need a flourescent yellow one, now!
 
A Hi Viz vest is larger & would show out more than a hi viz hat. The economics of the situation dictate that a vest is the least costly but more effective way of being seen.....sorry but fact
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I wear a neon yellow polo shirt/coat depending on the weather. My horse wears a full blanket. I want a hat so I can be seen over hedges and walls from a further distance. It's the height that is the key to being seen early in country lanes.

If there's a market for flourescent leg bands and breastplates for the horse as well as blankets, then there's a market for flourescent hats for the rider as well as waistcoats.

Some of us want to be as safe as we can. I cannot understand why you are so anxious to tell those of us who want a safe hat that we shouldn't ask for one!
 
I only have one hat and certainly wouldn't want a hi viz one. The other thing to bear in mind is that hi-viz fades with time and needs replacing and that could work out rather expensive!

What about a hi-viz hat cover with ventilation holes/netting or similar - like the newer charles owen skull with the ventilated cover, but in flourescent yellow?

Personally I'd just forego the hat cover and wear my vest instead (+leg bands and necklace on the horse, of course
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What is it with people who just want to say that they don't want a flourescent hat? I do. There are other people who do. It doesn't matter how many of you don't, as long as enough of us do. I don't want a cut-away show jacket. I don't want a pair of Hunter wellies. I don't want a million other things that other people want.

I want a flourescent yellow vented hat in the £30-40 price range. I don't want to pay extra for a cover. I don't want the reduced airflow from covering the vets, even with netting. I don't want to have to wash a cover, because that will make it fade. By the time proper paint fades, the hat will be due for replacement anyway.

I make my own hi-viz hat at the moment by spraying it with paint from Halfords. I'd like to buy one done properly. So would some other people.

Somebody make one, please !
 
We have a pink and also a yellow hi-viz velcro on band to go round the hat (however it's always used in conjunction with a vest or tabbard)
I would say this is a good option if on a budget.

I think they're like this:
http://www.horseandharmony.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1311 I think it'd probably cover just the bottom of the vents of eg a Champion. Probably cheaqper on ebay.

Personally as a car driver the bigger the area of the hi viz the better, I'd see a tabbard long before a hat, and a flourescent exercise sheet before a tabbard.
You can also get little horse hats http://www.hozhatz.co.uk/ which are good from the front.
Greys are more visible than bays, particulatly under trees, always amazes me how so many ride without hi viz.
 
A reflective hat is a great idea. The hat is the first thing a driver sees over a hedge/wall and it is also visible to helicopters.

I do not think hat bands are wide/big enough to be very effective.

I am a happy hacker and would welcome this and I have flo hat covers which reduce side vision and make my head sweat even more.

Maybe troxel could come up with a version?

By the time the hi viz fades, it will be time to get a new hat anyway because the safety standard will have changed and having reflectors would make a big difference.
 
PLEASE!!!! cptrayes

Now I can't remember the ins and out and whats and whys but......

In my biker days (a long time ago) It was always made extremely clear to people that painting their helmet weakened the material of it.

I would just do a little bit of research and make sure the paint from Halfords isn't weakening the structure of your hat.

Sorry if you have already done this, but I am just a bit concerned.

As for the idea of a fluorescent hat, yes nice idea, but I personally make sure I buy the best hat I can afford then put a band around it. I would not be buying from the £ 30/40 range.

I think it cuts your options down too much.
 
People are writing as if I want a hat instead of other high viz, I want it AS WELL. I don't want a hat band, either, I want a great big blob of flourescent yellow on my head. The bigger the surface area the better. When I changed to long sleeved hi viz from a waistcoat, it was remarkable what a difference it made to the car drivers in narrow lanes. When I added the hat it was even better - they saw me over the banks and walls from a long way away.

I know paint weakens some helmets but I chose a hat that has a thin, loosely attached "skin" to paint for that reason. Even mesh panel will reduce the airflow. And cost extra. And fade when you wash it. It would be better if someone like Troxel would make one. I live in hope. (Well actually I live in Macclesfield, Hope is near Wrexham :-).
 
I didnt mean paint it I meant patent the idea so nobody else can steal it. I would not recommend painting a hat, its daft.

I do not see why a plastic riding hat could not be made out of a hi viz coloured plastic instead.

I completely get what you mean CPtrayes, I have often thought of the same.
 
Most of the fluro paints/dyes are unstable in UV light so it may well be that the helemts would have an unsuitable rate of deterioration. ....also as is shown in this thread the demand simply ISN'T there...people here have shown quite clearly that they would be satisfied in the most part with a cover if they really wanted a flourescent head...The market just isn't there for a product with potentially very few sales and a whole lot of extra cost in development (yeah I know, spit em out the same mould, but honestly plastic with a fluro aditive would require new materials testing to ensure strength was not compromised...especially over time..)

It's a case of "we can sell 200 fluro helmets a year..... but if we don't make them in fluro, 196 of those people will buy one anyway and put a cover on it. Hmmmm...What did you say that materials test would cost again?..."
 
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