ROAR!!! - For those Gillette moments...

[iddu]

from clicky 

[ABlipInContinuity]

** strolls out to the shed and starts measuring lengths of wood **

[mattc]

CAREFUL KIDS

Make sure you attach these things in a way that won't cause you harm when Clever Dick Driver aims straight at your 'target'.

[Deano]

And for UK users - please remember that we ride on the LEFT side of the road.

[ABlipInContinuity]

CAREFUL KIDS

Make sure you attach these things in a way that won't cause you harm when Clever Dick Driver aims straight at your 'target'.

To be honest, this is why I've always thought flags were a naff idea.

[disrail]

Perhaps if you stuck a nice big Yale Key on the end they might think twice,

I was thinking of experimenting with such a device for a week to see the reactions. Of course I'd be giving up my ability to jump queues.

How long should it be? The Highway code is very vague in this area and won't put a figure on passing distance, apart from a cyrpticaly ambiguous;

"give motorcyclists, cyclists and horse riders at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car (see Rules 211-215)"

[Greenbank]

How long should it be?

The HWC is cryptically ambiguous because there's nothing in law to specify a minimum passing distance.

I'm guessing there's nothing stopping you from going right up to whatever the limit is before it'd become a "Wide Vehicle". Can't find a legal definition of that though.

However, if you did put something 7ft wide on the back, I really wouldn't be surprised one of the following things would happen:

1) Someone would lose patience with you and drive past snapping it off whilst mouthing abuse.
2) The Police would pull you over and tell you not to be so inconsiderate.

Something 1m wide (and centred) would be an interesting "theory of big" experiment.

[Pete]

errr.... just come up with an idea .... surely you could get the oxygen bottle into one of those panniers, and the acetylene bottle in the other....

[hellymedic]

I suggest a garden rake with nice steel prongs facing outwards...

[Jasper the surreal cyclist]

I'm just going down the shed to sharpen up my schythe.....

[fuzzy]

Oh come on guys 'n gals

A brand new blindingly bright Hi Vis jacket with POLICE in chuffing great letters on the back of it doesn't get the wearer a wide overtake. What makes you think any of the above suggestions will?



 

[Regulator]

Oh come on guys 'n gals

A brand new blindingly bright Hi Vis jacket with POLICE in chuffing great letters on the back of it doesn't get the wearer a wide overtake. What makes you think any of the above suggestions will?



 

You should try one of padbeat's 'POLITE' jackets - I hear they work...

After all, everyone knows there's no respect for the law these days.