Commuting - Is there a market for this?

http://interwovendesign.com/smilies/moveover.gif

And if there was a market for it, would it have any affect of ChrisL's "motoring Primates"?

Of couse there would be an option to have the arrow point the other way for people who live in contries where driving on the wrong side of the road is ok.

PH
:D

At sharp corners we have signs with black and white chevrons, indicating the direction of bend. I think wearing a jersy like this
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may be a more subtle and unconsious way of getting drivers to steer wide. An illuminite one would look just like the sign at night, and it would be so much fun to wear.

More like this?
http://interwovendesign.com/smilies/moveleft.gif

and this?

http://interwovendesign.com/smilies/moveright.gif

You may be on to something!


PH
:D

I wondered about a message on the seat of my shorts, so that I just had to stand on the pedals when I wanted to get the message across... :)

Richard

John,

Nice T-shirt ideas. :thumbup:

I've considered this one many times but never had the nerve to do it. The police might not see the humor in it.
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/d9e56b40/bc/Ron%27s+pictures/Police+Bicycle+Patrol.jpg?bcyzBz8AGAzrCdmA

I love it, but since when did drivers pay any attention to signs?

;)

Rats!! I always have problems inserting an image. :(
But I'll keep trying.

Ron,

Use the {img**url_of_your_pic{/img** tags, except you need to use [] instead of {** around the img and /img. Yahoo! may not let you directly link to a picture that they are hosting.

John,
I think you're right. I don't think Yahoo lets you do a direct link. :(
I guess I'll have to start uploading things to Mindspring (a.k.a. Earthlink), once I "build" a web page. :confused:

No need to build a web page, just FTP the pages to your web space and link to them from here. That's all I'm doing. I can set you up with an FTP account if you wish.

PH
:D

The t-shirts are a fun idea, but in practical terms (1) I ride a road bike, and my back it too horizontal for the pattern to be seen if it's on my back, and (2) much of the time as I ride in the morning or after dark, in non-summer months, I'm wearing something over my jersey.

I find a most effective "move over" signal is a fluorescent orange banner flapping on the end of a thin 3-foot dowel extending horizontally to the left from my rack. Drivers are completely unwilling to make contact with it. I mounted it with elastic bands.

I also wear a reflective trangle that hangs down by the back of my saddle, with a red blinkie clipped to the strap (plus two other blinkies on the bike, plus lots of other reflective tape, etc., etc...).

RichC

Originally posted by Rich Clark
I find a most effective "move over" signal is a fluorescent orange banner flapping on the end of a thin 3-foot dowel extending horizontally to the left from my rack. Drivers are completely unwilling to make contact with it. I mounted it with elastic bands.


I thought about doing something like that. I'm glad to hear that it works. I thought it might be even more effective with something big and heavy on the end so that if a motorist did hit it, his car would be . . . um . . . marked.

andy

Originally posted by Rich Clark
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I find a most effective "move over" signal is a fluorescent orange banner flapping on the end of a thin 3-foot dowel extending horizontally to the left from my rack. Drivers are completely unwilling to make contact with it. I mounted it with elastic bands.


RichC

I like the idea but doesn't it cause problems in lanes/town traffic?

Richard

I had a two foot horizontal row of reflectors on the back of my rack, before the rack broke. If it's the same length as your handlebars, you are fine. (But taking your bike through doorways can be tricky, because it's like two sets of handlebars.)

I am still trying to find a way to put my 3-inch reflectors back on.
Right now, I only have a rear blinky and an oval yellow reflector on the back.

Originally posted by Richard D


I like the idea but doesn't it cause problems in lanes/town traffic?

Richard

No, but maybe because I never try to split lanes. A normal lane is plenty wide enough for me and my stick.

Also, I can just push it in to center the stick in the rack. When I do that, the ends don't stick out much more than the width of my handlebars.


RichC

I really like the idea of a visible, bright (Day-Glow, reflective and/or lighted) horizontal bar, because I read somewhere that motorists tend to notice horizontal objects more than vertical ones. It should be lightly spring-loaded, and designed to avoid problems when cycling in a group.

I guess it wouldn't be too smart to have a jersey just like that, with the arrow pointing to traffic, but reading, "I'm with stupid."

Sorry to interrupt. I guess it's late my brain is flickering a bit.

I have a bright red jersey with the word LOOK right across the middle of my back in huge text about 4 inches high.
It's an actual LOOK jersey, also the shorts have a LOOK logo on them. Even if they can only read it while I'm
stationary in traffic, it gets the message across.

CHEERS.

Mark

I'd buy one of those chevron shirts! :D

I've wondered about the flag on the back of the bike before. I've heard that some morons will actually reach out of the passenger side of cars and grab them.

Is this a worry or more likely an urban myth?