Teaching kids how to ride a bike is easy, but how many parents teach their kids how to ride safely?

There are plenty of websites that provide good safety information for parents to pass along, but none of them are as creepy as the one produced by the Highway Safety Division of Virginia in 1972.

Thanks to Comics With Problems, you can view the comic that features Danny and the Demoncycle – a quaint story about a little boy who wreaks havoc on his neigbourhood with his unsafe cycling.

Reflective ribbon on backpack, originally uploaded by elliottzone.

If you use a backpack when you’re commuting, adding some reflective ribbon to your pack can help make you more visible.

On my backpack, I have two pieces of reflective/neon yellow ribbon. I fixed them to the pack in an X pattern. They’re about 16″ long, so about 7″ dangle below my pack and flap in the wind.

My theory behind this is that the flapping parts may attract a bit more attention because they’re flapping. I added three grommets to each strip. This makes it easy to attach to any pack with a couple of mini carabiners or plastic ties.

Cost for the ribbon was about $10.