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[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I've seen someone with a pool noodle sticking off the side of their bike at the minimum passing distance for cars. I think it's a great passive option.

I think even better is one of the fiberglass reflective marker rods.

If you wanted to be extra good, you could run a flashing light out to the end of it, and if you wanted to be extra bad, you could place something like broken spark plug ceramic at the end that would scratch up a car, but be harmless to humans.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I think even better is one of the fiberglass reflective marker rods.

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[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

The pool noodle is good, but I dunno if I’d want to bike with a stick poking out from my bike towards cars. Can you pit maneuver a bike? Because it seems like the stick would make it more vulnerable to that.

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