Flags and poles for recumbent trikes

[Quint]

                                    I don't think I could be treated much better for the most part,















           it's a vanishingly small minority of drivers who misbehave, and then only usually a little bit.

   

           I would beg to differ, on a sunny saturday afternoon (on the way to work) arse in VW screams at me "I can't see you" the link between my brain (what is left) and lip snapped and I auto replied "well open your f*****g eyes then" I s'pose I didn't really help the situation but how can someone shout at you if they can't see you. Around 02-00 on a sunday morning and exuberant yobs shout aggressively from car as I go out of the lit up part of Kidlington into the unlit countryside, just a small example from the small part of civilization we call North Oxfordshire.
           Maybe a small minority but sadly not vanishing.
                                                                                   

[Regulator]

Well, I like my Bretagne flag,

Let me know if you need another one, as I have one (slightly larger) spare.

I have the Union Flag and a Jolly Roger on the trike.  Both seem to get smiles from drivers and passers-by.

[Kim]

Barakta's skull-and-cross-sporks (which is easily mistaken for a Jolly Roger) generally gets a good reaction.  Though it once got a "Burn the witch!" from another cyclist 

I can't help wondering if strategic use of England flags would make you part of the in-group, leading to better treatment from a certain type of road user.  But it's not worth flying England flags for...

[Auntie Helen]

I tend to have a cople of flags, usually a Union Jack and a German flag. When I just had a German flag a while ago I went into a vafé in Brightlingsea and a German man there started talking to me, asking if I was here on tour. We had a nice chat - the flag allowsyou to make some kind of statement.

I think fboab has some kind of northern flag on my Trice Q a the moment.

[Quint]

Well, I like my Bretagne flag,

Let me know if you need another one, as I have one (slightly larger) spare.

I have the Union Flag and a Jolly Roger on the trike.  Both seem to get smiles from drivers and passers-by.

      I would love it please, thank you (again)
                                                                       

       

[rower40]

Dunno if it's still open, or if it still sells these things, but...
... there's a shop in York called "Anti-Gravity", and I bought a few "Witches' Hats" there.  These are conical fluttery things that spin around a clever bearing.  I tape one to the top of the pole in place of a flag, and it really gets on the tits of the riders of any following conventional bikes gets the 'bent noticed either in traffic or when out and about.

Having said that, neither of my 'bents have been on the road for 18 months or more.

[Kim]

A shop called "Anti-Gravity" sounds well worth visiting...

[cycleman]

bring your own  air

[fboab]

I think fboab has some kind of northern flag on my Trice Q a the moment.

I do. The Ancestral Homelands

I think the flag stops people from taking you too seriously, and you're more likely to get smiles with their 'wtf' than aggression.

the flag allows you to make some kind of statement.

This.

[Quint]

I would get an Oxfordshire flag but compared to most other County flags it looks a bit fey 

[Cunobelin]

I would get an Oxfordshire flag but compared to most other County flags it looks a bit fey 

Find a flag you like then move house..... simples

[Cunobelin]

I liked the original Anglo-Saxon Dragon flag until it became a a symbol of a somewhat racist group!

[Quint]

I would get an Oxfordshire flag but compared to most other County flags it looks a bit fey 

Find a flag you like then move house..... simples

      Like it     

[Andustar]

.... But it's not worth flying England flags for...

What is wrong with England flags. I'd be flying one now if I was prepared to buy one (hoping I'll find one disguised as litter

[Cunobelin]

.... But it's not worth flying England flags for...

What is wrong with England flags. I'd be flying one now if I was prepared to buy one (hoping I'll find one disguised as litter

Variations on this "joke"

Under new proposals to improve road safety during the summer season when traffic levels on Britain’s roads peak, the government has rolled out plans under which the stupidest drivers in England will have to identify themselves by displaying distinctive red and white flags on each side of the car. In extreme cases, more than two flags will need to be carried.

‘This is not discrimination, it is common sense,’ said new Transport Minister Norman Baker MP. ‘Some aggressive young men with brains the size of sweetcorn are a dangerous menace on our roads. With this requirement in place, at least other drivers and pedestrians will be able to see them coming.’

Emergency legislation has been brought in to require all those defined as boy racers, pillocks and half-wits to display the flags from today until the end of July. If successful, the safety scheme may be extended indefinitely.

Some commentators have questioned the governments’ legal definition of ‘stupid drivers’ which a leaked memo reveals as ‘all builders, scaffolding workers, road diggers and delivery men, and any other male who works with his hands or takes sugar in his tea.’

[Andustar]

Yes, but that is just a joke underlining many English peoples shame about their own flag. You wouldn't get the Scottish, Welsh or Irish thinking that way about their flag, why should we?

If it's a case of the flag having been appropriated by the less salubrious members of the society, all the more reason for "proper" folk to reclaim it.

[fboab]

Yes, but that is just a joke underlining many English peoples shame about their own flag.

It's not the flag, necessarily, that the shame is about.

My 'identity' is Northern before it's English, and probably British before it's English.

[Kim]

I think I'd agree with that.  Well not the northern bit, I'm about as northern as a biscuit, just a bit crap at being southern (I am neither posh nor a shandy drinker, and only a part-time poof.  And more seriously, my mum's family were Irish).

But if I were going to stick a flag on something (say, while touring overseas), it would be a Union Flag, not a St George's Cross.


That the English flag is usually associated with football and the extreme right doesn't help, of course, but it wouldn't really be an issue in that sort of context.

[barakta]

I'd identify as British if anything as I've more Scots ancestry than English in the last 3 generations.  I don't know about flags though as there's connotations with them all and whatever you think you're saying there's often several alternative parses/understandings.

Shall stick to the skull and crosssporks as it's sufficiently unique I hope people would ask

[teamonster]

I fly the Yorkshire County Flag from my Trike, because there are no connatations or stereotypes associated with being a Yorkshire man, plus it was dead cheap ! 

[CrinklyLion]

A shop called "Anti-Gravity" sounds well worth visiting...

Oh, it is.  If you ever want to make EldestCub possibly the happiest boy alive, offer to accompany him there.  It has a queue of serious earnest boys in there every weekend days spending the contents of their piggy banks on bling scooter upgrades.  I'll be back in there in November, I reckon, buying SmallestCub's next Christmas present since his cheapo 'disposable' scooter from last Christmas has already broken and I can't work out how to fix it, but it has done its job as a proof of concept for him   And loads of the staff ride bikes, albeit in several cases the kind of bike with no (or an entirely token) saddle.

[Quint]

I fly the Yorkshire County Flag from my Trike, because there are no connatations or stereotypes associated with being a Yorkshire man, plus it was dead cheap !

         Depends on whether you are a Lancastrian