Bicycle safety flag?

[hartleymartin]

Perhaps if you experience problems with people overtaking too close (perhaps one of the most dangerous problems we face today), then a high-vis flag fitted horizontally might be a solution?



Perhaps easier for those who ride with rear carry racks because one could readily zip-tie a standard flag to it. I don't see many similar products on the market though.

[il padrone]

Abbotsford Cycles sell it. Safety Wing - $8 plus shipping - one that is less like to give a scrape to cars and lay you open to allegations of a road hazard.




Personally I don't use one. I find that my two rear panniers achieve the same goal of giving me a wider rear profile.

[hotfoot]

I'd be worried about some goon grabbing the flag and pulling me over...can see some dear friend wouod think it good fun

[Mulger bill]

Why not put a flouro coloured paint pen on the end? Indelible evidence...

[Oxford]

industrial diamond tip, doesn't dry out and does the same work.

[ColinOldnCranky]

I'd be worried about some goon grabbing the flag and pulling me over...can see some dear friend wouod think it good fun

I seriously agree with that. I think it is almost a certainty that some bogun someday somewhere will give it a tug.

Or at the least cruise over close to give it a flick. Which rather defeats the purpose.

[lethoso]

I'd be worried about some goon grabbing the flag and pulling me over...can see some dear friend wouod think it good fun

tape some razorblades to it?

[il padrone]

A friend of mine used one for several years. My son used one for a year or two. I never heard either of them report any such incidents. I think you may be jumping at shadows

[Oxford]

A friend of mine used one for several years. My son used one for a year or two. I never heard either of them report any such incidents. I think you may be jumping at shadows

no they will try, I had one and riding up Kedron Brook Road one evening ute with bogans tried to grab it. trouble for them was two fold, I saw them in the rear view mirror so evaded it, then they got caught in traffic build up, so they ended up having to have their hearing checked as the AZ that close apparently hurts.