Reflective wheel tape

Really like the idea of the reflective stripe that comes on some tyres now but my Panaracer Paselas have probably got another winter in them so I'm thinkin of using reflective tape on my rims. Something like this maybe. Anyone else used it or got any other ideas for something similar?

Fwiw I got a cheap children's star cutting shape and bought some black hi vis tape and stuck them on my black rims. Thought it looked pretty good.

Just sayin'
http://www.lfgss.com/thread93736.html

Also Velocity have a hi-vis coating on some of their rims.

I've seen the motorbike strips on a tark bike - mainly I think to cover the braking track on a front spoke. Looked quite good.

not a bad idea... What about cutting out a card star shape and covering it with reflective tape then placing in spokes...Hmmmm...

Buy the 3m stuff off eBay..; Mega reflective and you can get it in black to keep it subtle (assuming you got black rims)

This is my Corima which I dressed up for Halloween...

Motorcycle riders use it for their rims, so curved application should be possible.

I am paranoid about side visibility at nght so I bought a sheet of white reflective material and put it on my white deep-V rims.

1. Cut the A4 sheet of reflective into strips that were the distance between spokes minus a few mm each side (in my case, 1.5cm-ish strips).
   
2. Then work out what length is needed to go across the arch of the rim, from where the braking surface starts across the inside of the rim to the start of the braking surface on the other side (for me, that was about 2cm). So, I now have a pile of bits of reflective tape that measure about 1.5cm x 2cm.
   
3. One by one, peel the backing off and stick these across the rim between each spoke. If you cock up a bit and end up going onto the braking surface a bit, just use a scalpel/stanley knife and cut into the corner (like laying carpet) and trim the tiny bit of excess away.
   
4. Miss out the bit where the valve goes, or better still, cut a hole in one strip and fit around the valve.
   
5. Repeat for the other wheel. I found that I needed about one and a quarter sheets for both wheels. YMMV.
   
   

What you are left with is a rim that is roughly half and half reflective white and non reflective white. You can't see it on the wheel by the day but at night, your wheels are bright spinning disks (you need the non-reflective areas to get the proper spinning effect). It shows up from miles away!

You could use that tape you linked to, buy a sheet of reflective material from a bike shop. You could put red stripes on a black rim or go for stealth black on black, whatever suits.

I don't have a pic or video (it would have been so much easier to just take a pic!) but if you look here on Instructibles, someone else has done a similar thing... http://www.instructables.com/id/Bright-Bike/

I use these - http://www.parker-international.co.uk/9737/Continental-GP4000-Folding-Tyre-700x25c-Black-Reflex.html