Silly Americans

[Strathlubnaig]

https://momentummag.com/a-proposed-missouri-bill-would-require-cyclists-to-fly-a-fluorescent-flag/

 

[ColinJ]

To be fair, it is probably "Silly American" since (hopefully!) he is the only person likely to vote for it!

Perhaps they will vote for an amended flag height of, say, 5 ft?

Whatever the height, it isn't a measure aimed at encouraging cycling!

 

[Keith Oates]

The idiot that is proposing the flag has already had a previous attempt in banning bicycles from some roads and so this is another attempt to do that. I just hope no UK MP tries to copy him.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mo1959]

https://momentummag.com/a-proposed-missouri-bill-would-require-cyclists-to-fly-a-fluorescent-flag/

Can think of a few places I'd like to stick a 15 foot flag and I think I'd start with up his a**e.

 

[Drago]

A flag... with a target on it!

 

[bancrobba]

Can think of a few places I'd like to stick a 15 foot flag and I think I'd start with up his a**e.

Sideways?

 

[sidevalve]

Actually a friend of mine DOES fly a flag on the back of his bike. He gets a lot of laughs and waves but as he says - if they have a laugh and or wave he knows they've seen him. Not exactly the same but better than trying to blend in just to prove a point.

 

[Dogtrousers]

A pedant writes ... A fluorescent flag? Really? One that actually absorbs then re-emits light?

 

[Spinney]

A pedant writes ... A fluorescent flag? Really? One that actually absorbs then re-emits light?

He's a rethuglican. Science is a dirty word, and it would do his reputation no good (amongst fellow bible-bashing rednecks) to actually use a scientific word correctly. Except he wouldn't know the correct meaning if it bit him in the bum!

 

[PeteXXX]

I would guess that drivers would be so busy looking at the flag that they'd forget that there was a bike zip-tied to the other end of it, and bang!!!

Will the loony be recommending a luminous flag for night riding?

 

[PeteXXX]

[QUOTE 4104351, member: 43827"]It doesn't surprise me. A couple of years ago we were in Jackson, Wyoming and, at street crossing points, they had containers at each side with bright flags in. Pedestrians were supposed to pick up a flag, hold it up when crossing and replace it in the container on the other side when they had crossed.[/QUOTE]
Did people actually use them?

 

[PaulSecteur]

Im looking forward to the bill that requires cars to have someone walk in front of them with a flag.

Thats the future, that is.

 

[Nigeyy]

Oh you silly people living in the UK..... Clearly you have no idea of the American culture. The height of the flag is so the person with the rifle knows where you are when you hide behind a hill.

 

[arch684]

15 ft above the road,so plan your route to avoid low bridges and how would i get the bike in the garage

 

[Gravity Aided]

Some of the posts on this forum are longer than this guys' bill. This fellow obviously knows nothing of cycling, and talks like a man with a pasteboard arse. I think they have a great deal more to worry about in the St. Louis Suburbs than 15 foot bicycle flags, and they should worry about the persecution of people of African American background, and how to solve that problem, before they worry about adding cyclists to the list of people they persecute.
(That was more wording than his bill, BTW. Troglodyte.)