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What is the reflector on a bike?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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A reflector basically is something that causes incoming energy to bounce back in the same but opposite direction that it came from.

Bicycle reflectors are fairly small plastic, flat things located on the front, back, side and sometimes on the pedals of the bicycle. The reflectors have small mirror-like surfaces that become very bright when something like the light from a car hits them, making the bicycle easier to spot.

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