Wear a bikesign
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Wear a bikesign
Postby russell.bathard » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:31 pm
You will be amazed at the result and increased safety this provides. Well tested for over 12 months. Choose from signs depicting; a 1m. clearance,KEEP CLEAR,arrow ------>,SHARE THE ROAD etc.
This is a
FULLY FREE IDEA
for you to use for your own safety. Forget what you look like - your life is important!
Protect yourself by preventing accidents before they happen.
For full information about this new safety initiative search google for bikesign.blogspot.com and see other signs for the back, bike or shorts etc. and action photos of its effectiveness.
Please pass this message on to other cyclists.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby AUbicycles » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:31 pm
Feel free to discuss the ideas and I trust we can encourge the original poster to become involved.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby il padrone » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:37 pm
If people want to campaign for a cause, organise a public rally.
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby familyguy » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:03 am
Also, it seems the combined efforts of road signage, flashing school zone signs, speed signs, obstruction warning signs, and safety announcement signage does not affect some drivers whatsoever. How would a sign on a shirt?
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby gorilla monsoon » Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:04 pm
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby il padrone » Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:25 pm
Maybe the OP's ideas for a bikesign were not what we thought
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby RonK » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:44 pm
The shirts however will not be free.This is a
FULLY FREE IDEA
Can't find any enthusiasm for those 1m signs. I think the whole "A metre matters" campaign is misguided. Yeah, having a car pass a metre away in 50kph city traffic is OK, but having a b-double pass on the highway at 100kph and only a metre away? No thanks.
The others - well if you want to look like a traffic sign that is fine, but not for me thanks...
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby rkelsen » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:52 am
... And it was as unexpected as the Spanish Inquisition...familyguy wrote:Godwin's in four posts. Record.
Aha, but the difference here [pay attention 'cause this is the important bit] is that no-one is forcing you to wear one of these. It's a fine line, but an important one...gorilla monsoon wrote:Didn't some little moustachioed bloke in Germany insist on certain members of the community wearing special signs back in the late 1930s? That went well, didn't it?
I think the idea has merit, since most motorists comply with road signs... but their execution is lacking.RonK wrote:The others - well if you want to look like a traffic sign that is fine, but not for me thanks...
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby Puffy » Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:46 pm
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby gorilla monsoon » Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:38 pm
Not technically Godwin's. He was only referenced, not specifically named.familyguy wrote:Godwin's in four posts. Record.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby rkelsen » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:46 pm
Doesn't have to be.gorilla monsoon wrote:Not technically Godwin's. He was only referenced, not specifically named.familyguy wrote:Godwin's in four posts. Record.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:52 am
London Boy 29/12/2011
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby gorilla monsoon » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:04 pm
Who are you callin' a troll, Willis?Mulger bill wrote:Can anybody point me to a widely accepted protocol for invoking Godwins or any of the other various interweb "laws"? My personal opinion is it is allowable if the reference is pertinent to the discussion otherwise trolls could drop the N word willy nilly into any discussion they didn't like as a way of shutting down debate. I'd really like to see some consistency on this...
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby Mulger bill » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:19 pm
I'm also thinking of coining a "Mulgerbills Law" of safety discussions along similar lines: The moment an "OMGGGGGG, won't SOMEBODY please think of the children!!!" type post comes in it's game over
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby Xplora » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:31 pm
It's a classic political correctness control mechanism - shut down the debate by attacking the man who claims the other is denying freedom. There are none so intolerant as those who claim to be more tolerant than another.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby gorilla monsoon » Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:46 pm
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby brentono » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:32 pm
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby Summernight » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:43 pm
Scarred for life. Just imagine what the kids at school do to the sign when he gets there. XPbrentono wrote:
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby russell.bathard » Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:00 pm
To RonK.It is the idea of wearing a bikesign I am pushing to save a few cyclists lives.Anybody is free to use this idea.If you are worried about cost, make your own.
To gorrila monsoon.You do not have to wear a bikesign if you don't want' to.I believe it provides greater, importantly, preventative safety, than the helmet which you do have to wear.
To Puffy.If your guy wears a bikesign like the triangular one shown in bikesign.blogspot.com with crossover straps on the front it will not ride up his back.
To Summernight.At least the kid has a chance to make it to school alive! Thanks for the photo.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby familyguy » Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:18 am
To wit, I offer a brief BBC item regarding body language:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northwes ... rime.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There was a similar story undertaken with motion capture of three people (yes, I'm looking for it). Their gait, unadorned with bodies or features, was then shown to three men convicted of street robberies, who were asked 'who would you take down?' One was picked as a yes, despite being a male over 6 foot tall and approaching 120kg. One of the 'no' votes was a shorter woman.
What you do has quite a lot of bearing on how people perceive you. This includes how you act on a bicycle, and your perception by other road users.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby rkelsen » Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:38 am
Nice of your mother to do that for you.brentono wrote:
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby russell.bathard » Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:53 am
I urge you to try a bikesign to experience its effectiveness then you will have some actual facts to support your conclusions.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby RonK » Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:54 am
Well, good luck with the marketing.russell.bathard wrote:To RonK.It is the idea of wearing a bikesign I am pushing to save a few cyclists lives.Anybody is free to use this idea.If you are worried about cost, make your own.
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Re: Wear a bikesign
Postby il padrone » Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:28 am
For the past 35 years I've ridden a bike very happily without a bike sign. What I discovered on one summer tour to Mt Gambier and back in 1979 was the benefits of correct road placement and behaviour. With two mates we discovered 'The Wiggle' and how useful it was to persuade large semi-trailer drivers to overtake us safely. Each to their own but I see no need for a sign on my back to tell drivers I am a bicyclist. If they are close enough to read it they should have seen me long ago.russell.bathard wrote:To family guy.Thanks for your comment.I can assure you a bikesign does improve your personal safety on the road.Over the last 12 months touring around Australia in mixed traffic from road trains to city traffic and covering some 20,000km, I have had no close encounters.Admittedly I ride very defensively. I rode with a large KEEP CLEAR sign on my back.Check out the unstaged action photos by googling bikesign.blogspot.com
I urge you to try a bikesign to experience its effectiveness then you will have some actual facts to support your conclusions.
I would encourage you to ride much more like this:
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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