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05-11-09, 12:32 AM
Hi, I am new to your forum and I am 70 yoa male and I live in Albury NSW.
I have been Bicycle racing and touring in England and Australia for the past 55 years and the same as you guys I have had many near misses with motorists coming to close and sometimes cutting in front of me. Back in1969 I was hit when on the Nepean Highway at Aspendale by a hit and run driver at about 12.30 am , there was nothing else on the road, and I spent 4 months recovering in the Alfred Hospital, I was one of the lucky ones.
As part of the solution to the problem we have with Motorists getting tooo close I have designed and had manufactured a Bright Yellow BIB type Top with the words
JUST
1
METRE
PLEASE
⎯ ➜
printed in Black type across the back.
I would like you to comment and support me where possible,
Cheers Ian
I have been Bicycle racing and touring in England and Australia for the past 55 years and the same as you guys I have had many near misses with motorists coming to close and sometimes cutting in front of me. Back in1969 I was hit when on the Nepean Highway at Aspendale by a hit and run driver at about 12.30 am , there was nothing else on the road, and I spent 4 months recovering in the Alfred Hospital, I was one of the lucky ones.
As part of the solution to the problem we have with Motorists getting tooo close I have designed and had manufactured a Bright Yellow BIB type Top with the words
JUST
1
METRE
PLEASE
⎯ ➜
printed in Black type across the back.
I would like you to comment and support me where possible,
Cheers Ian