Preventing close passes

[si_c]

An AK47 over your shoulder should help.

I was thinking thinking something like a seed drill dropping drawing pins.

 

[jefmcg]

I was thinking thinking something like a seed drill dropping drawing pins.

That will only take out cyclists. You need one of these

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

I think it maybe because they see you as a tad umpredctable and a force to be reckoned with. If approaching a junction where I think some waiting driver may be tempted to pull out or cross my path I often speed up, or appear to. I can also recommend the well judged wobble/joyful swerving from side to side. Totally reasonable.

I'm a big fan of the intentional wobble/swerve.

 

[Blue Hills]

forgot to add I also sometimes change down a gear so my legs spin faster so they may possibly get the idea that I am going faster than I am.

 

[Blue Hills]

I'm not sure of the advantages of a pole, unless it's quite bendy. Assuming they are going to pass as closely to the end of the pole as they would to you, the risk of contact is similar, and if the force of the contact is passed along pole to your bike, you are going to fall just as hard. The advantage is you are less likely to fall under the wheels, but the disadvantage is make you feel safer without making your actually safer.

I didn't think brains was entirely serious.

 

[Sharky]

[QUOTE 4581466, member: 9609"]was there not something 10 or 20 years ago whwere cyclist had little red marker boards that stuck out to their right ?

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I fitted one of those to my daughters bike. Worked great until she did a university year in Germany and took her bike with and I forgot to switch the red marker thing to the other side. I'm sure the hospitals were full of pedestrians needing knee surgery.

 

[jefmcg]

I didn't think brains was entirely serious.

It wasn't directed at brains, but all the suggestions. I picked "pole" as a generic word. Even finding a pool noodle stiff enough not to sag towards the road but bendy enough not cause a crash if a car brushed it would be a challenge.

 

[NorthernDave]

A boxing glove on a spring would be quite effective. Would work with nobber cyclists too.



(Not seriously, obviously)

 

[Blue Hills]

A "nobber cyclist" thread might be a good idea - location, what said "nobber" did - always the chance they may at least lurk on here, recognise themselves, and, just possibly, change their ways and act like a road user/share the space-not grab it.

 

[Dan B]

It wasn't directed at brains, but all the suggestions. I picked "pole" as a generic word. Even finding a pool noodle stiff enough not to sag towards the road but bendy enough not cause a crash if a car brushed it would be a challenge.

If you mount the pool noodle diagonally pointing upwards, it surely doesn't matter as much if it sags a bit, as long as it doesn't actually meet the road

 

[mjr]

If you mount the pool noodle diagonally pointing upwards, it surely doesn't matter as much if it sags a bit, as long as it doesn't actually meet the road

You could get it sponsored by an ED remedy firm!